While doing my daily shifts in the World Wide Web and buzzering out of world class music with my surrounding sound system dancing all around my desk, I cracked out of my seat – again while still in music mood – with great news from Google jumping of my screen. That thing that came out my screen, that tiny little piece of text, that title is “Google Releases Language Translation API”.
The language API supports many languages such as Arabic, Chinese, France, Russian, and Korean and of course English. As clearly as their announcement is, it support 12 languages and cover 29 translation pairs and it is extremely easy to use for programmers.
For more information on how to use the API, you can check out the official documentation here. Be advised, it is made for Javascripters.
Last time Microsoft developers were dancing like crazy because of the large penetration of IE7. Now the party will even get further with the Silverlight download rate hits the 1.5 Million downloads a day and increasing… Hell, now they gonna host a strip party in their offices! What’s next?!
Microsoft, if you had read my last few post you’ll know they are dancing, has announced the launch of the first beta release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. More support for semantic web structures, therefore, web developers will find this beta version very useful especially if they want to keep up with latest technologies and weeding out the fads. Grab the browser here and add more tests in your testing environment arsenal!
A post in phpguru got my attention after showing the statistics from TheCounter. IE6 is now overtaken by IE7 and both browsers are used by 78% of connected computers. That’s an astonishing penetration percentage for Microsoft. I’m sure they are dancing in their office right now!
