Before I was an entrepreneur, I was a developer. And a geek…
After I was an entrepreneur, I let my inner nerd come back to life!
Let’s have some digital fun…
Before I was an entrepreneur, I was a developer. And a geek…
After I was an entrepreneur, I let my inner nerd come back to life!
Let’s have some digital fun…
Lately, I've seen quite a few people claiming XML to be the definitive way to store data, because it's supposed to be the most flexible format... Others claim RDBMSes have been providing an efficient solution to data storage for years or decades and…...
All the first PDAs on the market had keyboards... Remember the Sharp organizers? The Psion Series 5? Then some day, the Apple Newton and a little later the PalmPilot introduced a new form of input device: the stylus! Since then, virtually all PDAs…...
Every year or so, there comes a time where my W2K hard disk seems to fail in mysterious ways. Every time my reaction is the same: I desperately start searching the GUI for the disk checking tool. Damn it, where have they moved it in this version of…...
As I have said before, gettext is a very interesting framework for i18n and i10n. Now the question is, how do I apply this to web applications? Actually, I'm going to restrict my discussion here to PHP since this is what I'm working with right now...…...
As I said recently, i18n and l10n are best carried out using the right tools... I've looked around somewhat and it turns out there seems to be an absolute reference in the area: the GNU gettext framework. This framework actually comprehends several…...
When you develop a piece of software or a website up to a certain point, there comes a time when you try to reach an international audience. No doubt your first move will be to provide an English version of your software or website. However, you…...
MagpieRSS provides an XML-based (expat) RSS parser in PHP. MagpieRSS is compatible with RSS .9 through RSS 1.0, and supports the RSS 1.0's modules (with a few exceptions).
Browsing the web for CSS related info often turns out to be a painful search through naive CSS glorification and anti table propaganda... :-/ So I always find it very refreshing when I stumble upon a more balanced article like Sitepoint's "Exploring the…...
gettext is a package that includes everything you need to internationalize a piece of software and then let translators localize it on the run without worrying too much about it. It's not perfect (for example, it's poor at using multiple languages…
If you don't believe me, have a look at what tools real coders use... No, I'm not talking about emacs, I'm not talking about vi... I'm talking about the supercoder 2000 !!