Category Archives: Coding

Why you need a localization tester tool

Posted on December 2, 2018 by

I’ve worked with four different translation agencies in different projects. In each case, we have occasionally received some faulty translations, where for example placeholders were missing or incorrectly formatted. This has occurred even when the translator has used a translation … Continue reading →

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Swearing in Unicode

Posted on March 12, 2018 by

Sometimes you just gotta swear, but don’t have the words for it. This is where grawlixes, or symbol swearing, comes in. Continue reading →

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Entropy of a MongoDB ObjectId

Posted on October 7, 2017 by

How hard is it to guess a generated MongoDB ObjectId? Continue reading →

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Complex plurals

Posted on March 21, 2017 by

Pluralization is a key topic in localization, but its complexity is very often overlooked.  Every localization library supports singular and plural forms, but many languages have more than two plural forms — some even have six different forms! We encountered this when … Continue reading →

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Continuous localization

Posted on February 2, 2016 by

In a lot of development (especially outside the US), localization is a must.  You can have people 100 km away that don’t speak the same language.  Unfortunately localization is often a significant hindrance in agile development and continuous deployment. In this … Continue reading →

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When to hard-code

Posted on December 13, 2014 by

Hard-coding is generally considered an anti-pattern and abhorred by experienced developers. Input and configuration data should be externalized from the code, or at the very least parametrized to a language constant. While working at Wellmo, I’ve come to reconsider this … Continue reading →

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Hybrid app testing using dynamic DNS

Posted on March 23, 2014 by

Hybrid apps simplify implementing cross-platform mobile applications in many ways.  You only need to write the HTML once, and it should work on all platforms.  However, you still need to test those platforms. At Wellmo, we do most of our … Continue reading →

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Using Spark with MongoDB

Posted on February 18, 2014 by

I recently started investigating Apache Spark as a framework for data mining. Spark builds upon Apache Hadoop, and allows a multitude of operations more than map-reduce. It also supports streaming data with iterative algorithms. Since Spark builds upon Hadoop and … Continue reading →

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CoffeeScript woes

Posted on December 22, 2013 by

I recently wrote a piece comparing CoffeeScript, TypeScript and Dart.  For the UI component of Wellmo, we decided upon using CoffeeScript.  While this has been a great leap from JavaScript, we’ve had our share of setbacks.  Here’s a few issues … Continue reading →

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Modifying the pace of audiobooks

Posted on December 2, 2013 by

I’ve recently started listening to audiobooks.  They’re a convenient way to enjoy books on your way to work or while driving.  After listening to Mika Waltari’s The Egyptian, I took on The Hunger Games, read by Carolyn McCormick. Like many … Continue reading →

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