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26 Tips for Localising your Application

I’ve worked with applications with different language variants for years. Here are some things I’ve learnt along the way. This is written from the point of view of an English speaker, working with an English application. In honour of that,…

10 Beautiful Software Development Haikus

In my day job I send a lot of very routine emails announcing new deployments or pleading with people to fix the continuous build. I’ve started to amuse myself by sending them as haikus (3 line poems with 5, 7…

10 tips for working with remote development teams

I’ve been working closely with two remote teams for a couple of years.  It works well but it’s not without its challenges. No-one would decide to work with remote teams to make a developer’s life easier. It might make your…