Today I’ve met with Dan Milward for lunch. Dan owns a company here in Wellington (Instinct) that’s pretty deep in developing a game creation engine for Flash and particularly Flash Lite games. I’m pretty impressed, it’s a very nice tool and there’s an online version of it available on Facebook.
I personally can see a lot [...]

When one is talking about Unicode and i18n, usually part of any discussion is the question what exactly a character is. I’ll give you a typical example in German.
Besides the well known “umlauts” (which are basically ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö and Ü) there is one more character that usually causes some concern. The story behind the umlauts [...]

During the last few weeks, I’ve presented a session titled “Internationalisation with CF, Java and Flex” at various conferences and meetings. To name those: Scotch on the Rocks, webDU and the June user group meeting of the ColdFusion user group Germany.
The session has changed a bit from SOTR to webDU to the CFUG session and [...]