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Legacy is alive and well

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Posted in Legacy, Technology, Programming, Management on January 14, 2008 at 6:25 pm

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Reading Davey Winders Blog post regarding Brainstorm and its 24th Birthday got me thinking about legacy applications and in particular our in-house bespoke ERP system that I am currently caretaker and developer of. It is too easy these days to consider an application useful only if it has a graphical user interface but I imagine that there are many older applications still in active and essential use today

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Lessons in making a multi-lingual website

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Posted in Programming, Languages, Internet, E-Commerce on November 23, 2007 at 4:57 pm

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I confess - I only speak one language (excluding programming languages of course!). Some people might even tell you I have difficulty with this one. However, I was still asked to work on the technical angle of converting a website to a multi-lingual website - to include French and German language variations. The actual “language” side would be handled by someone else - phew I thought, oh and apparently the project would be a breeze. Now, the older I get the more worried I look when people tell me things are going to be a breeze because more often than not they aren’t. This was to become no exception.

Finding a translator was simple enough, our local chamber of commerce were very helpful in this respect. I was a little concerned when there was no project meeting, discussion or even email communication to lay out the requirement but as the “language” side was being handled by someone else I was not too concerned. As long as I received the text then the technical implementation should be quite straightforward.

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