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If you missed the conference, take a look at what people are talking…

Practically a movie star…

More online testimonials by:
Kirti Vashee, Asia Online
Emerson Barroca, Wordfast
Rodrigo Resuche, Eriksen Translations
Juan Baquero, Texo (SDL Reseller)
Bob Donaldson, McElroy Translations
Kady Ferguson, Eriksen Translations
Daniel Goldschmidt, Localization Flow Technologies
Richard Sikes, Localization Flow Technologies

The next one might even be in Brazil!

I have just returned from the IMTT 6th Language and Technology Conference, in Córdoba, Argentina. I was much impressed with the quality of the speeches and the talks with attending colleagues, whether they happened in the corridors between sessions or enjoying some wonderful Malbec by the pool side.

My presentation was called Saludos Amigos – Rising Opportunities in Latin America and apparently those who could participate enjoyed the optimism and ideas I tried to convey. The time has come to actually place Latin America in the localization map and for that I suggest the CID approach: Collaboration, Innovation and Determination. =)

Look how happy I was to learn so much in such short time…

Of the sessions I could attend, the highlights were the one-day Vendor Management seminar with Renato Beninatto, Teddy Bengtsson and Mauro Bertuol, and the sessions by Bob Donaldson, Kirti Vashee, Richard Sikes and Daniel Goldschmidt. Not to mention the Expert Panel on the Industry Outlook, moderated by Bob Donaldson and presented by Gabriela Morales, myself, Teddy Bengtsson and Richard Sikes.

It is time for our tanned people to show their true value and if it is within my reach I will be in the forefront of this initiative representing my country and region with due pride.

Congratulations to the organizers, “las dos Cecis”

You can view the pictures of the event at http://www.imtt.com.ar/conference/front/index.asp?ID=31.

In this post, we will talk about the challenges related to capitalization. For this, we need to explain how letters and numbers were represented in the early eras of personal computing.

In the past most computers “spoke” English, with each character of a certain language related to a number in a character table. In this type of representation, only 128 codes were necessary to map all used characters, as you can see below.

Upper Case Letters (A – Z)                      26
Lower Case Letters (a – z)                        26
Digits (0 – 9)                                               10
Punctuation Marks (. , + { [ ) % $)           32
Space                                                            01
Control Characters (TAB, CR, LF etc.)    33
Total                                                           128

The ASCII Chart

As 7 bits are necessary to represent the 128 existing positions (27=128), a 7-bit coding was created and called “ASCII”, the acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

I suggest you read the article on ASCII on Wikipedia. It will serve as a useful reference for the most part of the next post.

See you then!

“Kickoff meeting is over. You can go back to work.
I said NOW!”