Tutorial
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Software
Internationalisation for Web Applications
|
|
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.
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
What is the effect of translation on page layout
Where will language live in the system
Message creation rules
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
Multiple country e-commerce
Number Formats
Currency Formats
VTC implications for e-commerce
Time Formats and GMT
Tax
More than code pages
Java internationalisation
Resource Bundles
Conversions
Format
Single source code
Make vs. buy
"Quick Fix" vs. "Investment Fix."
Planning for translation
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.
Information about previous J&A tutorials can be found by clicking on the link below:
J&A tutorials
(Page opens in new browser window)
This one day workshop costs £200 (about $289 US) per attendee.
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.
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.