Archive for May, 2007

Using jQuery to manipulate a foreign DOM

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

This is somewhat of an old topic, but digging through a myriad of ways of including jQuery into a website that doesn’t use it (eg. Wordpress having Prototype and such), I stumbled upon a bookmarklet written by John Resig that loads jQuery into the current DOM and enables you to run an onload function that […]

Easier I18n XLIFF message generation

Friday, May 11th, 2007

If you’re like me and you don’t trust yourself to catch all of the breadcrumbs you leave behind you, you tend to rely on an arsenal of tools to keep you in check. This is especially true with XLIFF and Symfony. There’s an i18n generation script that scans your actions, YAMLs and templates for the use […]

Solved: How to get I18n working on reverse-engineered tables

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

We’ve all been there - Symfony and I18n do play well together - it’s got XLIFF for interface translation which works almost out-of-the-box, it’s got localization features for things like numbers, currencies and many others. It also has internationalization features that work with database tables. Unfortunately, all is well until you stray from the guidelines presented […]