Tutorial

Recommended attendees
Material to be covered
Translatability
Cultural issues
More information
Tutorial registration
About the presenter

 

Software Internationalisation for Web Applications

The International Design Tutorial is a one (1) day program

Today's $43 billion B2B Internet transactions are expected to grow to $1.3 trillion by 2003. And, according to the experts, the Internet's non-English speaking community will rise to 70% in 2005. Despite this growth many of the internationalisation techniques learned over the years have not been applied to web based systems. This tutorial will address internationalisation of web based systems using the lessons learned from traditional software development.

Recommended attendees

Website developers

Software developers

Software testers

Database designers

Technical writers

Technical managers

Programmers

System architects

Separate registration

IWIPS registration only covers the Workshop programme. It is necessary to register directly with Johnston and Associates to attend this pre-workshop tutorial. The fee is £200 for this concentrated training session (normally run in 1.5 days at LISA). A link to the registration site is provided near the end of this page.

Material to be covered

Assessing your product's international status

How do I begin?

World wide writing systems and software development

How many potential issues are there?

What are the four layers of internationalisation compliance?

Translatability preparation

Data Path preparation

Cultural and Statutory functional preparation

Multinational design from a common sourcecode

How the web changes things

Web Architecture, 3 tier model

Continuous release cycles vs. batch

Translatability preparation sample topics

What is the effect of translation on page layout

Where will language live in the system

Message creation rules

Data path preparation sample topics

What is a code page and why must I care?

Unicode the Rosetta stone of code pages

Normalisation

Surrogates

Transforms

Sorting complexities

Database design for multi-lingual data

Web page tags

Cultural and statutory functionality preparation sample topics

Multiple country e-commerce

Number Formats

Currency Formats

VTC implications for e-commerce

Time Formats and GMT

Tax

Inter-system communications

More than code pages

Java internationalisation

Resource Bundles

Conversions

Format

Single source code

Putting it all together - evaluating

Make vs. buy

"Quick Fix" vs. "Investment Fix."

Planning for translation

Handout content

The handout from this tutorial is designed also to be a reference work, as well as a pointer to numerous books, websites and international standards.

More information

Information about previous J&A tutorials can be found by clicking on the link below:

J&A tutorials
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Tutorial registration

This one day workshop costs £200 (about $289 US) per attendee.

About The presenter

Rian Emrick - Vice President of Technology, J&A Global.com

Rian has worked in the industry since the early days of the PC - in the design of printed circuit boards and electrical engineering, as well as software engineering. He has a wealth of knowledge about international programming in 16 and 32 bit Windows, DOS, UNIX and OS/2, as well as object-oriented and visual programming techniques.

He has designed large quantities of user interface components that comply with IBM's internationalised usability requirements. He also has years of experience in the technical dimension of software localisation projects, with solid know-how in preparing software to be productively translated, with a minimum of code rework following translation. Rian has written numerous development-assist and diagnostic tools to aid with the automation of the internationalisation process.

About J&A Global

Johnston and Associates was founded in 1993 as a software internationalisation consulting and outsourcing firm. We provide huge cost and time savings to our customers through the advantages of internationalised code and procedures for anyone developing software.

We have focused on assembling over 180 software design issues (requirements) for all international markets. In support of this we offer software tools to automate many parts of the internationalisation process, special coding techniques in numerous programming languages, and training programs tailored to client's specific issues. We offer training and consulting on how to optimise their engineering, testing, technical writing, localisation vendor management, service support, and product management for all of their world-wide customers.

J & A Global is an IBM, and Lotus, Microsoft and Sun Development Partner. In short, J&A rapidly transfers knowledge, skills, and efficiencies to clients, who are either beginning to go international or who have done so already. We commit to each to radically improve their speed to market and reduce their cost per country.

 


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