I just finished reading “Subtext: Uncovering the Simplicity of Programming”. As I read, my mind kept going back and forth between this makes a lot of sense and this is crazy. This is common with radical new ideas.
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Last night at dinner I learned from my kids that eating cauliflower brings bad luck. They also believe that the more you say it the…
3 CommentsThe redesign is complete. Let me know if you find anything broken. Constructive comments welcome. Thanks. So the background picture is now gone. Someday I…
1 CommentI’m planning a redesign of this blog soon. I got some feedback on the overall layout and style. A few people commented that the picture…
Comments closedDevelopers accustomed to internationalizing Java [web] applications are very familiar with ResourceBundle, MessageFormat and property files. The articles Localization and Internationalization with StringTemplate and Web Application Internationalization and Localization in Action give a good introduction to how StringTemplate can be used to do i18n but they don’t explain how to get the full set of benefits we derive from ResourceBundle, and MessageFormat. In this article I describe how StringTemplate can leverage ResourceBundle and remove the need for MessageFormat in the presentation layer.
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