GALA TAPICC starts for real

TAPICC is an industry initiative supported by GALA, TAUS and LT-Innovate to tackle the challenge of translation industry application programming interfaces (APIs). Last week, GALA...

XLIFF 2.1 open for second public review

XLIFF Version 2.1 has reached an important milestone in its development. On February 7, the OASIS XLIFF TC members approved the second Committee Specification Draft...

Unicode Jewels: Ogham Alphabet Made Personal

I've just had a super new ring made for me by Irish designer Breda Haugh. It's in sterling silver with a single pink sapphire stone set...

An Cód: Craicing the Code in Irish

It's often assumed that computing coding lessons are always taught in English because most (though not all) programming languages use English language syntax. Not so. Take...

A Cute Irish Accent

Irish accents, dontcha love 'em? In this case I'm talking about Irish language (Gaeilge) orthography, specifically the Irish language equivalent of the acute accent, the fada...

XLIFF 2.1 open for public review

XLIFF Version 2.1 has reached an important milestone in its development. On October 14, the OASIS XLIFF TC members approved the first Committee Specification Draft and...

Live from LocWorld

The keynote at LocWorld32 just took place in Montreal, Canada, discussing how to engage customers profitably. "This," said keynote speaker Donald Cooper of localization "is...

Running on Empty: The Irish Language Lesson from #LocWorld31

Another Localization World Dublin has come and gone. Again, running featured as an (unofficial) activity  for participants. Again, the expressed interest in doing so paled...

Blame Florida. Again: Is Coding Just Another Language?

An interesting debate: Is coding just another language? Some people in Florida seems to think so, and the Senate there is set to act. For me,...