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Linked List: August 3, 2005

MochiKit 

MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript.

Using Perl to Manage Plist Files 

Nice introduction to Apple’s PerlObjCBridge by James Reynolds. Part two is here.

Regarding the ‘Reverse Razor/Blade’ Strategy 

David Pogue:

The story so far: I cited, in my Times column, the clever observation by John Gruber, writing on DaringFireball.net, that Apple’s iPod strategy has reversed the old “Give away the razors, sell a lot of blades” business plan.

As you know from my last blog entry, several readers chimed in to point out that it wasn’t Mr. Gruber who first made that remark, but was in fact tech columnist Robert X. Cringely.

But Mr. Gruber himself gets the last laugh on this one. […]