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Multilingual Web Sites; the Pleasure and Pain – multilingual php version

Recently, I have worked on a project to that needed to have multilingual php.  While developing it, I found out a few things that might be useful to you.

First, modern browsers like Chrome try to translate web pages into whatever language you want.  That is good, but not great.  The developer of the web page needs more control if they want a perfectly translated page.

How?

My projects use two…

FileZilla – Easily edit files on a remote server with your favorite local editor | Matt Vukas

excerpt from Matt Vukas’s blog;

FileZilla – Easily edit files on a remote server with your favorite local editorFileZilla is a great free and open source FTP client. As far as standalone FTP clients go, I’d be willing to bet that it’s the most widely used client of it’s type. Without the data to back that up, I’d only assume it based on how many times I’ve seen it used by universities,…

I just got the Windows Phone 8.1 developer pre-release upgrade!  It is kick-in-it!

It is really good and should give the other phones a real race.   Those of you who may not know, Windows desktop and tablets went from Windows 8.0 to 8.1 last year.  It was a good fix for those that had issues with 8.0.  The phone, however, stayed at 8.0.  Now, that has changed.  It is good.  Real good.

Updating…

User Registration Spam Prevention – WangGuard Anti-Splog

After getting countless annoying spam registrations (spam bots – robots set up to destroy the internet… ok, probably not or most likely not to destroy the internet but to somehow make money by being pests and obnoxious), I did a little research and found this great and free Word Press plug-in called wangguard.  So, without further ado, here is the description from the site and and link.

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The Ultimate Guide to Multilingual and Multiregional SEO

This is an excerpt from a very nice article on Multilingual and Multiregional SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

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Column: Multinational Search

The Ultimate Guide to Multilingual and Multiregional SEO

May 7, 2013 at 11:37am ET by John E Lincoln

When you begin to get into multilingual and multiregional SEO, you know that you have taken a step forward as an SEO expert. Why? Well,…

The Difference Between jQuery’s .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() – Alfa Jango Blog

A nice article on JQuery bind live and delegate

  The DOM tree

First, it helps to visualize the DOM tree of an HTML document. A simple HTML page would look like this:

Event bubbling (aka event propagation)

via The Difference Between jQuery’s .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() – Alfa Jango Blog.

by Steve Schwartz

asp.net (asmx service)- JavaScriptSerializer.MaxJsonLength exceeded. What’s the best practice for handling this? – Stack Overflow

This link was helpful when a departmental hierarchy lookup failed to return results when all departments were combined.  It is internal so an occasional large JSON result wasn’t a problem.

This has to be added to the web.config file with the length adjusted as needed.

8 Weather APIs that return JSON

 8 Weather APIs Weather APIs are web services that return weather data for projects via ajax or other code methods.

Google Weather API is no more…

I have a project that needs a weather service (API) that will preferably return JSON and is preferably free.  While researching, I found a few.

These are eight of the ones I found.  All are available for both commercial and non-commercial use.

Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) news: H-P to make 3D printer announcement in June, promises breakthroughs

H-P to make 3D printer announcement in June, promises breakthroughs

Mar 20 2014, 13:20 ET

"We’ll be making a big technology announcement in June around how we are going to approach this," said H-P (HPQ +2.2%) CEO Meg Whitman at yesterday’s annual meeting.Whitman argued current 3D printers suffer from speed and substrate quality shortcomings, and insisted her company has "solved both these…

Georgia (UGA) vs. Yale – 1929 Sanford Stadium

UGA vs. Yale, 1929 Sanford Stadium Dedication – This is non-programming, but my youngest sister made me so happy that I had to post it.  She found the lost ticket stub that I thought would never be found.

It is a stub (the stub) from the first game at Sanford Stadium between Yale and UGA.  On it, my young grandfather wrote his prediction before the game and then filled in the final score.  He was…

I stumbled on this page while working on a currency related project. It is very good, so I linked it.

Currencies of the World

I needed a mapping of countries to currencies, together with the country’s flag and the currency symbol, for a project I was…

This was useful for a project I am working on.

Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources

Test for Unicode support in Web browsers

Currency Symbols

via Currency Symbols – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers.

After many years, I am doing due diligence on website hosting. With my current billing cycle coming to an end, I decided to look at other sites with several criteria needing to be looked at; Performance, Reliability, Price, Features. I found Ryan…

Nice article about simple responsive design check with JQuery. I just used it in a web app I am building.

There are some great options for managing Javascript when using CSS media queries in a responsive website. MediaCheck, jRespond, and Breakpoints.js…

Convert VB.NET to C#

Simply paste in your VB.NET code below, and this free utility will automatically convert it to its equivalent in C#.

via Convert VB.NET to C# – A free code conversion tool – developer Fusion.

It also converts Python and Ruby. It is a…

It is useless to resist: Richt and Gurley join Conley's production | Bulldogs Beat with Seth Emerson | Macon.com

ATHENS – Two months ago, as Georgia receiver Chris Conley was just in the planning stagesfor his…