Free Virtual Geek Swag: 3-D Tux

tux-maqEveryone loves a freebie, even geeks, who are notorious for their immunity to normal sales tactics. But not just any cheap fris–ah woops I mean flying disk–or boring white promotional T-shirt will do: to truly capture a geek’s heart it has to be the right schwag..
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Internationalization Work Flow with poedit

un flag Internationalization (i18n) has come a long way since I wrote my first multilingual website way back in 2000. In that era, we just swapped out entirely different sets of templates, which, of course, made it very difficult to keep the two sets in synch.

With the Zend_Translate module of Zend Framework, it is possible to do it with just one set of templates and focus on just the text. CSS wizards can make whatever layout changes they need regarding placement and alignment if we need to support right to left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew, and Zend Translate can provide the texts.
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