Posts from April 2011

• A quick example of internationalising phrases

  Apr 10 2011, 23:07 (+0000)

  Internationalising phrases is harder than it looks, since it’s not just an exercise in swapping words and inserting variables. A common issue is the plural: The presence of an ‘s’ on a key word, based on the value of a piece of data you’re describing.

• Catching Trailing Whitespace in TextMate

  Apr 19 2011, 0:44 (+0000)

  Trailing whitespace is nasty, and there are various ways to go about catching it. There’s a neat way of running TextMate’s ‘strip trailing whitespace’ macro every time you save, for example, but that introduces an irritating lag if you’re twitchy with ⌘S like I am.

• Developing the OAuth user experience at Twitter

  Apr 29 2011, 8:26 (+0000)

  In which I write a bit about my work at Twitter.