languages

Even though a judge has rejected the settlement between the Author's Guild and Google Books, the seven-year saga of Google’s attempts to scan millions of books in dozens of languages and offer them to readers around the world is far from over.

A nice blog post about "little mini-languages" that form part of the syntax of Clojure.

On the PHPClasses blog there's a new post looking at using the Gearman framework with PHP via a PECL extension.

Pingdom: "Everyone seems to be talking about trendier languages like PHP, Python and Ruby, with Perl left in the back as a neglected, not-so-hip cousin.

That might lead you to think that Perl is dying, but as it turns out, it’s still used by plenty of websites out there, including some pretty big hitters."

New from the CatsWhoCode.com blog there's a few helpful hints on making your WordPress theme easily translatable:

BleachBit: "Say you are a polyglot fluent in nine languages, and Ubuntu installs files for 500 languages: that means you are wasting disk space for 491 languages you will never use!

Ridiculous!"

SWIG makes it easy to write an extension for your favorite scripting language (or languages). Learn how it works.

Cyber Cynic: "On the other hand, I don't see Mono, the open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET programming environment and its related languages, as being an open-source "infection;" or particularly "dangerous," much less that "MONO people have poisoned your minds and infiltrated Ubuntu to get power to enforce their will.""

Dolibarr: "The big focus of this version is the stabilization. This version is the version that had the largest debugging campaign.

Many portions of code have been removed or shared on that occasion. Imperfections due to native support of UTF8 for Version 2.5 have been corrected, and many languages added (even if translation is not always complete), such as Russian, Finnish, Norwegian, Romanian, German."

The social news site's CEO says the company will double its staff and enhance its international appeal by launching the site in multiple languages.