The client (browser) doesn’t send any information to the server regarding the client’s timezone. It’s just not supported. One might try to guess the timezone from the culture or even try to guess it from this new geo-location feature. Maybe in the future there will be a new header like “X-Client-Timezone: UTC+1” but for the time being a good approach is the following.

This week I’ve been very busy with my new pet project, BuzzStats. BuzzStats is an application that collects data from Buzz, a popular social bookmarking Greek speaking community.

I tried to see if it’s possible to install the latest Ruby on Rails on IIS 7.0. I didn’t manage to do it and the reason is that there is something broken in the fast cgi ruby gem.

Δοκίμασα χθες την τεχνική pomodoro για να κάνω λίγη δουλειά στο ResxTranslator. Την τεχνική την πληροφορήθηκα από αυτό το άρθρο. Η λέξη pomodoro είναι Ιταλική και σημαίνει ντομάτα. Η τεχνική pomodoro λέει ότι δουλεύεις για 25 λεπτά σε ένα task και αυτό το task το λες pomodoro. Μόλις ολοκληρώσεις ένα pomodoro κάνεις 5 λεπτά διάλειμα. Κάθε 4 pomodoro κάνεις ένα μεγαλύτερο διάλειμμα, π.χ. 10 λεπτά.

This post describes what I had to do in order to have the latest and greatest Ruby on Rails up and running on my machine. At this point, that is version 3.0.1.

Το πιο ενδιαφέρον με αυτές τις τοπικές εκλογές είναι το αν το αποτέλεσμά τους θα οδηγήσει σε εθνικές εκλογές ή όχι.

Yesterday I played a bit with MonoMac, a new framework for Mono that you can use in order to create .NET applications that have a native look and feel in Mac OS X. I have never done any Mac related development in the past so I had to read up on how Apple builts its UIs. My experiments made their way to ResxTranslator’s code base, so I intend that ResxTranslator will have three separate UIs: WinForms, GTK# and now Cocoa via MonoMac!

ResxTranslator is an open source project that facilitates easy translation of resx files. Resx files are XML files that .NET uses to store localizable strings. Visual Studio offers a built-in designer but MonoDevelop currently doesn’t offer support for resx files. In addition to that, ResxTranslator is able to open multiple files in the same window, so that a user can translate strings while looking at the original text at the same time. Oh, and it is at this moment developed only by me when I have some time to spare :-)