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My favorite engineering practice at Microsoft
Here at MSFT, specifically at DevDiv, we have specific testing categories called "Exit Criteria" - basically gates that you need to pass through in order to ship a release at any milestone. These criteria represent different flavors of testing that your Read More...
OrdinalIgnoreCase is not a panacea!
There can be too much of a good thing you know! Last night as I was scanning through some code, I noticed that all the String APIs were used in the culture safe overloads so thoughtfully provided by .NET. As I silently thanked FxCop for codifying this, Read More...
Avoiding the Turkish i issue
There are 4 i's in the Turkish language - the small dotted i(which is the same as English), the small undotted ı , the capital dotted İ and the capital undotted I(which is the same as English). Capitalization works in this way: ı.ToUpper() will yield Read More...
My first web chat session
I just finished my web chat session. We had nearly 50 qs asked in an hour or so. I must say it brought back memories of exams... As I went to the conf room with a borrowed laptop, I was nervous. Ok - I was a little more than nervous - bordering on jittery Read More...
I have an internationalization web chat tomorrow
at http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/chat/default.aspx Join the chat if you want to know about what internationalization is all about and how you can develop your apps for everyone around the world. :) Read More...
Localization and localizability - what's the difference?
As Michael Kaplan , our very own i18n guru noted in my previous blog , localizability is not the same as localization. Designing a software's code and resources such that they can be localized and presented in other languages thus making it usable in Read More...
Globalization? Now, why would that figure on a tech blog?
Some months back, I was talking to my brother about a presentation that I was about to give on globablization to my team and he asked me if I had read Friedman ! Then it struck me that globalization may be a very common concept within Microsoft but it Read More...
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