I work and build websites in Quebec where I’m required to provide invoices in French as the default. This is perfect for my French-speaking clients. But many of my English-speaking clients prefer English invoices. This means that I need a multilingual billing system. Many billing systems claim to be multilingual, when they are really unilingual …
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This week I was contacted by a potential client. They wanted a WordPress based eCommerce site. But there was a catch. They wanted it to be bilingual. It’s tough to find a content management system that does bilingual well. It’s even more difficult when you add eCommerce to the mix. In Quebec (where I build …
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This is the second part of a two-part series on designing for mobile. Today, I’m going to cover SEO, server-side tweaks, and conditional tags. I’ll also look at how to deal with javascript and multimedia. I’ll be posting a short follow-up on accessibility soon. Check back for more.
This is Part 1 of an ongoing series called So you want more women at your tech event? One of the first things you should do if you want more women at your tech event, is put a woman in charge. Tech events usually have an organizing committee and there should be at least one woman …
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This is what a tech event looks like when women are welcome. This is a photo of me, taken by the talented Eva Blue at PodCamp Montreal 2010. I also brought my baby to WordCamp 2010 about two weeks before this photo was taken. There were at least two other babes in arms at that …
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After I wrote my last blog post on women in tech (or more accurately the invisibility of women in tech), both organizers of Startup Fest emailed me. They weren’t happy with the article. And (surprise!) they wanted me to MC the Granny Den. They offered to let me help organize the Granny Den, make it …
Last weekend I gave a presentation at WordCamp Montreal 2011 on developing for the mobile Web. The talk covered some easy online tools, and WordPress-specific themes and plugins that require no coding. Then I offered my own solution. Designing for mobile can be tough because you are designing for so many different devices, screen sizes, …
This article first appeared on Feministing on June 4. On June 3, a new startup accelerator, FounderFuel launched. The group, located in Montreal, Canada, but funding startups internationally launched with 85 members, but not one woman. “At FounderFuel we believe startup success is more about the people than the idea. We take a lot of care in choosing …
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chronicle [ˈkrɒnɪkəl] n a record or register of events in chronological order vb (tr) to record in or as if in a chronicle [from Anglo-French cronicle, via Latin chronica (pl), from Greek khronika annals, from khronikos relating to time; see chronic] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
