Theory of translations

I have begun reading Introducing Translation Studies, by Jeremy Munday, as I am trying my hand at commercial translation. _Dolmetscher_ is the slightly derogatory term for commercial translators. It was coined by 19th century theologian Schleiermacher, who still is a defining influence on translation theories. (Most things that folks in T Studies are doing nowadays …

Search function with auto-complete “suggest”

The search function at the PHP homepage has got a new functionality: suggesting what it is you’re typing. Like auto-complete. And Google Suggest. > The source code of this feature is released under the PHP License and is available from the PHP CVS server without any support. Nice of them. The script is included at …

ECMAUnit: Unit testing for JavaScript

Sarissa is a goodie for those of us who wrangle with XML: Sarissa is a cross-browser ECMAScript library for client side XML manipulation, including XML loading from URLs or strings, XSLT transformations, XPath queries and more. Supported: Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox etc), IE, KHTML (Konqueror, Safari). When I started looking at its documentation, I noticed that …