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Message Functions
One common functionality for software is the need to provide human readable text messages. This is true of native applications, web applications, and many back-end systems. For applications with a user interface there is often a requirement that these messages be localized, that is, provided to the user in the user’s native language.
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Message Functions
One common functionality for software is the need to provide human readable text messages. This is true of native applications, web applications, and many back-end systems. For applications with a user interface there is often a requirement that these messages be localized, that is, provided to the user in the user’s native language.
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Solving Unicode Problems in Python 2.7
We discuss three steps you can take to begin thinking about strings and unicode the right way.
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Technology Radar 2014
We’re releasing our first Technology Radar. A Technology Radar, pioneered by ThoughtWorks, is a list of the techniques, tools, platforms, languages, and frameworks divided into recommendation levels: Adopt, Trial, Assess and Hold. It’s mostly a list of things we find useful and interesting.
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Exporting Django Querysets to CSV
In this blog, we discuss our experience with exporting Django querysets directly to HTTP responses with CSVs attached.
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GeoTrellis 0.9 is out
The GeoTrellis team is very excited to announce the availability of GeoTrellis 0.9 (codename “Avalon”), a significant new release that is a big step forward towards our goal of a general purpose, high-performance raster geoprocessing library and runtime designed to perform and scale for the web.
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Update: Comparing Sprite Kit Physics and Direct Box2D Simulation Times
In a previous post I compared Sprite Kit physics to using Box2D directly. In that comparison I used frames per second as measured by Instruments, but it is useful to look at straight simulation time (ignoring rendering time), which I present here.
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Comparing Sprite Kit Physics to Direct Box2D
I have recently done some work with Sprite Kit and have made some observations regarding the built in physics simulation capabilities. Based on these observations, I have decied to take a closer look at Sprite Kit physics, specifically comparing it to using Box2D directly.
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Running Parameterized Tests in iOS
In this blog we describe how to run parameterized tests in iOS.
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Easy Testing with Android Studio
This guide demonstrates how to get your Test environment in Android Studio up and running using the Gradle build system.
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DRY Up Your Vagrant Files
In this post we describe our experience applying the DRY principle while using a Vagrant file to launch a Riak cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).