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Portland Coder Party Tonight

Sorry for the short notice but there is a December Coders Bash tonight that Mozilla is helping sponsor. It starts at 7pm at CubeSpace. Drop by if you get a chance - it’s informal and sounds like a bunch of fun. Stealing from the linked page:
Some of the events we are considering [...]

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Localization introduction at PDXPHP next week

I’m going to be in Portland next week giving a casual introduction to localization at PDXPHP’s October meeting. It’s scheduled for 6:30pm on October 9th, so stop by if you’re in the neighborhood, and feel free to bring questions.
Oh, and going to the Slashdot 10-year anniversary party isn’t an excuse to miss this. [...]

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Mozilla24 is coming up!

Mozilla24 is a worldwide conference about technology and the future of the web. I won’t duplicate the about page, but check out the line up of speakers.
Whether you can attend in person or just visit online it should be able to offer something for anyone interested in the open web. If [...]

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Ten Tips for Website Localization

This post has some general tips that I’d recommend to anyone wanting to write a multilingual web application. The majority of my code these days is PHP, but I think these tips are applicable to most web programming languages. In no particular order:
UTF-8 is your friend. Use it.
The big step from ASCII [...]

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OSCON 2007

I just learned recently that I’ll be presenting at OSCON 2007. Mike Morgan and I will be talking about the process we went through to localize addons.mozilla.org.
If you followed the saga when we were trying to launch, you know we ran into some headaches with scaling the code to the amount of [...]

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June PDX Drupal Meetup

I caught wind of a Drupal meetup tonight, and since I’m going to be working with Drupal in the near future I thought I’d stop by and check it out. My main goal was to hear about other people’s experiences using Drupal in a multilingual environment.
This was my first time attending one of [...]

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Getting notified when new mail arrives in Thunderbird

When writing an extension for Thunderbird, it’s a common goal to be able to tell when new mail has arrived. In versions of Thunderbird before 2.0, the accepted practice was to get a pointer to the nsiMsgMailSession and add a listener that got called when a new mail event happened. The code would [...]

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