Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Javascript Cookie helper

function createCookie(name,value,days) {
 if (days) {
  var date = new Date();
  date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
  var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
 }
 else var expires = "";
 document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}

function readCookie(name) {
 var nameEQ = name + "=";
 var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
 for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
  var c = ca[i];
  while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
  if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
 }
 return null;
}

function eraseCookie(name) {
 createCookie(name,"",-1);
}


Reference:
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html

What is PO file?

PO file is the file format to save message for internationalization and localization (I18n, L10n)

It is from a open source project: gettext
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/

The format like:
# translator-comments
#. extracted-comments
#: reference...
#, flag...
#| msgid previous-untranslated-string
msgid untranslated-string
msgstr translated-string

Example:
#: lib/error.c:116
msgid "Unknown system error"
msgstr "Error desconegut del sistema"


It is very friendly for developer and translator working together, and also make code more readable. To ASP.NET developer is another choice than resource file.