Mar 2, 2006
Since the publication of this post, I have released Resx Editor a free visual resource editor dedicated to translation works.
In this post, I give a short introduction about website translation. The targeted audience is non-technical translators. I will focus on the particular case of website translation when relying on Microsoft XML Resource files.
The big picture Dynamic websites include many things beside pure textual content (programming source code, images, stylesheets, …).
Feb 10, 2006
The objective was to cure a very deadly disease and the drug was tested on mice. The results were impressive since 33% of the mice survived while only 33% died (the last mouse escaped and its outcome was unknown).
Numerical precision depends on the underlying number type. In .Net, there are 3 choices float (32bits), double (64bits) and decimal (128bits). Performance left aside, more precision cannot hurt, right?
My answer is It depends.
Feb 5, 2006
With Eclipse and VS2005, refactoring is now a standard feature of modern IDEs. No more than few minutes are now sufficient to drastically change the internal structure of a software library. Yet, if software logistics cannot keep the pace then productivity bottlenecks of software evolution remain unchanged. Charles De Gaulle said L’intendance suivra! (which could be poorly translated by “Logistics always keep up!"). Yet many european wars have been lost due to poor logistics, and, back to the discussion, I believe that logistics is no less important in software matters than it is in wars.
Jan 7, 2006
Joel Spolsky had a very good Making Wrong Code Look Wrong article where he rehabilitates the hungarian notation for certain dedicated purposes (tips: no, hungarian is not about junking your code with variable prefix such as string, int and array). Joel Spolsky presents the idea of prefixing unsafe (i.e. user provided) strings in the context of web-based application with us, standing for unsafe string. Such practice makes a lot of sense in situations where things have to be right by design (security is a typical example because no security holes are going to pop-up against typical non-hostile users).
