So it’s official now. The Republic of South Sudan is a country.
In case you’re curious what you have to do to become a country, here’s a brief list.
The list fails to mention the need for a country code. In fact, I would put a country code right [...]
JavaScript enables everything from simple online sign-up forms to complex web-based applications.
But there is not much information out there on how to effectively internationalize and localize JavaScript code.
Which is why I’m pleased to announce that Byte Level Books is publishing Going Global with JavaScript and Globalize.js.
The book is authored [...]
I was interviewed recently by Paul Sawers of The Next Web.
He wrote a great article about the challenges and opportunities of web internationalization. I recommend sending this link to anyone who thinks web globalization is a simple matter of translation.
Here’s the article.
Brian Walker, an analyst at Forrester, noticed recently that his blog post was seeing active retweets in a number of different languages. And yet the blog post itself was available only in English.
So as an experiment, he and his eBusiness team set out to translate the blog entry. Native speakers within Forrester invested [...]
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