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“Getting in touch with your Joomla’s inner database”
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 30 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Joomla, Vancouver, meetings and conferences, web technology
I’m giving another talk at the coordinates:
Getting in touch with your Joomla’s inner database
Monday, 30. November 2009, 18:30-20:30h. At The Network Hub, 422 Richards Street, 3rd floor, Vancouver, BC V6B 2Z3. tel +1 604 767 8778.
A monthly meeting of the Vancouver Joomla User Group. Admission free. All people interested in learning more about the content management system, and helping others learn more, are welcome.
Agenda
- Introductions.
- Featured topic: Getting in touch with your Joomla’s inner database, by Jim DeLaHunt.
- Q&A.
- Door prize drawing.
- Networking.
How to make standalone Django documentation on Mac OS X 10.5 using MacPorts.
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 06 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Python, robobait, software engineering, web technology
One of the many nice touches of the Django framework is that it provides tools and instructions to make a standalone Django documentation set from its distribution. (Django is an application framework for the Python language that helps with database access and web application.) Standalone docs are great for people like me who work on a laptop and are sometimes off the net. But I’m using Mac OS X, I get my code through Macports, and Django’s instructions don’t quite cover this case. So I just figured it out. Here’s the tricks I needed. Maybe it will help you.
Twanguages: a Language Census of Twitter
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 30 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Unicode, language, meetings and conferences, multilingual, web technology
What “twanguage” do you “tweet”? Twitter, the buzzing conversation of brief web and SMS messsages, exploded into wide use in 2009. But just how wide? To how many countries has it spread? And into which languages? I’m aiming to find out.
I’ve started a project named “Twanguages”, a language census of a sample of Twitter’s global traffic. I’m curious: which are the top languages? Are #hashtags localised? How does language correlate with location? And which Unicode character is the most rarely used?
I’ll be presenting our results at the 33rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC33), held in San Jose, California, on October 14-16, 2009. I have a place cleared for a Twanguages project page, and I’ll post interim results there as they become available (right now it’s only a placeholder). Stay tuned!
“International and multilingual Drupal and Joomla! sites” at LinuxFest Northwest
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 29 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: CMS, Joomla, drupal, i18n, meetings and conferences, multilingual, web technology
Last week I gave a presentation, International and multilingual Drupal and Joomla! sites. I’ve posted my slides and handouts at that link for anyone who wants to catch up on them.
The occasion was LinuxFest Northwest 2009, held at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, WA, USA. It was a delightful event. It’s thoroughly grassroots and volunteer, it has a friendly and accessible vibe, yet it attracts very knowledgeable people.