{"id":1550,"date":"2007-09-10T11:47:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T15:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/serial-number-url-scheme-in-cocoa\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T15:59:32","slug":"serial-number-url-scheme-in-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/serial-number-url-scheme-in-cocoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial Number URL Scheme in Cocoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codehackers.net\/blog\/?p=14\">Bob Warwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.codehackers.net\/blog\/?p=14\"><p>In this post, we&#8217;ll walk through the steps of creating <i>Simple Serial<\/i>, a Cocoa application whose sole purpose in life is to tell you if it&#8217;s registered or not.  When a user goes to register <i>Simple Serial<\/i>, they&#8217;re sent an email, including a link.  When they click the link, OS X launches the application and passes along the correct registration information to it.  The user has never had to type in a serial number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My applications have been using similar URL schemes since January 2006, and they&rsquo;ve really helped cut down on errors during serial number entry. In addition to providing the URLs in the order confirmation e-mail, I recommend including them on the order confirmation Web page and when customers <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/sn\">look up their serial number<\/a>. Some people get really confused if their e-mail program doesn&rsquo;t recognize your custom URL scheme, but I think this is far outweighed by the benefits.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Warwick: In this post, we&#8217;ll walk through the steps of creating Simple Serial, a Cocoa application whose sole purpose in life is to tell you if it&#8217;s registered or not. When a user goes to register Simple Serial, they&#8217;re sent an email, including a link. When they click the link, OS X launches the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}