Happy holidays, I hope everyone is relaxing and having a great time with their families and loved ones. To help see out the last year, and ring in the new one, I’ve prepared a (hopefully relaxing) article on some trends we’ve seen in 2012, and what that could mean for us in the next year and years to come. So if you want to take a break from the holiday din, then head over to JAXEnter and check out my article. The technologies I discuss are Rewrite, OCPsoft’s own, and Errai, by Red Hat.

Be safe, and I’ll see you all in the new year, ~Lincoln

If you’ve ever looked for social-style date formatting for Java, to create timestamps like, “2 minutes from now” or “3 months ago,” [[PrettyTime]] is probably the tool you’ve ended up with, and as you might know, it supports over 25 languages and dialects – a great number to be sure. But what happens when you come across one of the over 4500 living languages that are not supported?

Well, then it’s time to do some translation, and in order to help you manage this task, we’ve created a guide to help you get through as quickly and easily as possible. When you’re done, you might even want to submit your translation back to us so that everyone else can benefit from your hard work. The guide covers this, too. It takes only a minute or so to read the guide and get started! Let us know how you do.