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O’Reilly Open Source Conference 2010, Portland

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Administrator

Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was a good conference, and we had beautiful weather all week long. Executive Summary The themes promoted by the conference organizers were Cloud Computing, NoSQL, Emerging … Continue reading →

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SMTP Maximum Body Line Lengths

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Administrator

Handy maximum email message body values to know when debugging email line-folding problems. Generally if ! or !+ characters are inserted into long email lines, the solution is use shorter lines (insert newlines) or use quoted-printable encoding. MTA Maximum Octets … Continue reading →

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IMUG: Game Localization: Are We Having Fun Yet?

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Administrator

Tonite at the International Multilingual User Group (IMUG), Anthony Fitzgerald from SimulTrans gave a good talk, “Game Localization: Are We Having Fun Yet?” Anthony has extensive experience in game localization, going back to Sierra On-Line’s Leisure Suit Larry franchise (challenging … Continue reading →

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IMUG: Internationalizing Twitter

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Administrator

Mark Sanford did a comprehensive talk on i18n at Twitter. He was on the Summize team that Twitter bought, so originally worked on search, then ended up being the i18n guy. Twitter had a lot of things stacked against it … Continue reading →

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ApacheCon 2009 Oakland

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Administrator

I went to ApacheCon 2009 in Oakland. Why Oakland? The ASF was founded here 10 years ago. Executive Summary Most of the attendees that I talked to were primarily interested in search technologies, or were Apache project comitters. The search … Continue reading →

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