Apple is publicizing another iTunes contest. Like before, they are giving away a prize for every 100,000 songs download or entries submitted. The latter is the typical alternative that all such contests require to claim that they aren’t a lottery or another form of gambling.
In this case, the free entry form allows up […]
Apple is currently having a contest counting down to 500,000,000 iTunes songs sold. To publicize the contest, they exposed an XML representation of the current count of songs sold. Just out of curiosity, I wrote a Perl program that uses that count information to extrapolate the next winning times. Not too hard […]
One of my recent projects has been to port a Clotho application to Japanese. We chose this opportunity to convert the code base fully to Unicode. The other obvious choice would have been to port to Shift-JIS, a popular encoding for Japanese characters. However, we decided that this latter choice was not […]