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		<title>Determining a visitor&#8217;s timezone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve already decided that determining a timezone for a desktop application is easy. It&#8217;s too easy, and so let&#8217;s not even waste our time there. Instead, let&#8217;s think about something more difficult: how do you determine the timezone of a visitor to your website? If your site authenticates users, you have most of your problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internationalization Consulting career at EMC?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for a new position? EMC is looking for an Internationalization Consultant! I can&#8217;t take it, but maybe you can. Summary The Internationalization Consultant is responsible for participating in planning and discovery sessions, providing consultation on I18N requirements and optimal business/engineering process design, overall status assessments, and contributing to the campaign for education and awareness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timezone selection for web apps</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web applications have an unusual problem regarding timezones and formatted, user-viewable dates for a few reasons: several timezones are usually involved, and the determination of which should be used isn&#8217;t particularly clear date formatting code for even a modest list of locales isn&#8217;t available in browsers by default Timezones Everywhere Desktop applications have it pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Additional Characters in the Joyo Kanji List</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese language students must learn 196 additional Kanji to consider themselves literate. These additional characters will be added to the already daunting 1945 characters that are part of the &#8220;Joyo Kanji&#8221; list, which brings the total count to 2136. Joyo kanji are the basic, fundamental characters of the language&#8230;the minimal set that an adult or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These characters aren&#8217;t exotic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had the opportunity to sign up for health benefits with a 3rd party site that manages these things for my employer. Sites that collect data often limit the set of characters that you must use for each field. That&#8217;s reasonable for numeric fields, date fields, etc. After all, you don&#8217;t want invalid data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac OS X and server-ish software</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve owned a Macbook Pro before&#8230;it wasn&#8217;t a great experience, but it was acceptable. It was during a period of my career when my primary job was to communicate with other developers and to evangelize Java. The Macbook worked in that environment. Now my needs are different, but I find myself using another Macbook Pro. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IUC 34 Submission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 06:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The submission deadline for technical sessions and tutorials for the upcoming Unicode Conference has been extended. You now have until Friday to procrastinate. I&#8217;ve submitted my proposal, a technical session. Here&#8217;s the somewhat offbeat proposed session: Character Conversions from Browser to Database&#8230;and Back Again As characters travel through a typical web-based application, they must cross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Globalization at Yahoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 03:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several years away from full-time internationalization work, I&#8217;m happy to announce a significant change. I am working as the Media Globalization Architect at Yahoo. This is a dream job for me, and one that will definitely be challenging. My primary globalization experience has been gained through developing internationalization frameworks and APIs, particularly for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing UTF-8 CSV Files for Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help other applications understand the charset encoding of your files. Maybe the BOM can help.]]></description>
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		<title>Is this job for you?</title>
		<link>http://joconner.com/2010/01/is-this-job-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This job sounds fantastic to me. If you enjoy the i18n business and are ready for what sounds like a great opportunity, check out Symantec in Mountain View, CA. I&#8217;m not affiliated with Symantec in any way, nor do I know anyone that works there. It just looks like a great opportunity for someone. If [...]]]></description>
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