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"The memory was gone. It bothered her. She had lost so many memories during the ghetto."
~ from Louise Murphy's
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
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Janet Ellis
Anne Jaccob, a precocious and troubled 19-year-old, despises her self-absorbed parents and their stifling London home. The only bright spot in her lonely life is
Fub, the local butcher's apprentice, with whom she becomes infatuated. However, Anne's father, a prosperous merchant, wants her to marry one of his business associates. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Anne is not about to let her family's wishes keep her from her heart's desire. For another dark tale set in 18th-century England in which a young woman rebels against her circumstances, try Emma Donoghue's
Daisy Goodwin
In 1837, 18-year-old Princess Alexandrina Victoria of the House of Hanover becomes Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. No one expects much from a sheltered teenager who collects dolls and still shares a room with her overbearing mother. But Victoria, determined to become the monarch her people deserve, sets out to prove herself as a ruler, aided by Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, who becomes her adviser and confidant. Fans of royalty-themed reads won't want to miss this novel by
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Who Killed Piet Barol? A Novel
Richard Mason
Piet Barol, the charming libertine first introduced in
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Barol recruits two
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday: A Novel
Susan Rivers
Seventeen-year-old Placidia Fincher weds widowed Confederate Major Gryffth Hockaday just hours after meeting him and mere days before he returns to his regiment. In his absence, Placidia becomes pregnant, gives birth to a child that dies under suspicious circumstances, and ends up in jail for infanticide. What happened? Placidia won't say, but then her diary is discovered. Told through diary entries, correspondence, and court transcripts,
The Second Mrs. Hockaday
shifts back and forth in time to tell a compelling story of the American Civil War.
Resisting the Nazis
The Paris Architect: A Novel
Charles Belfoure
In 1942, Parisian architect Lucien Bernard accepts a lucrative commission from a wealthy businessman to design a secret room for the purpose of hiding Jewish fugitives from the Gestapo. Although Lucien has no particular love for the city's Jewish population, he loathes the occupying Germans and thrives on the challenge of deceiving them (the money doesn't hurt, either). But as Lucien's involvement in the scheme grows, he learns that no one can be trusted, not even those closest to him. Fans of suspenseful historical fiction set in Vichy France and featuring artists may also be interested in Paul Watkins'
The Forger
, in which a young American expatriate forges paintings to undermine the Third Reich.
Mission to Paris: A Novel
Alan Furst
Arriving in Paris in 1938, Frederic Stahl, a Hollywood star on loan from Warner Bros. to a French studio, soon finds himself wooed by the "political warfare" branch of the Nazi progaganda machine. Born and raised in Vienna but naturalized in the U.S., Stahl has always steered clear of politics. However, his unease with the growing influence of the Third Reich in France and his distaste for being used prompts him to try his hand at espionage. Fans of noir-tinged historical spy fiction should enjoy this atmospheric stand-alone 12th installment of Alan Furst's Night Soldiers series.
City of Women: A Novel
David R. Gillham
Sigrid Schröder is the perfect wife, or so it appears. Married to a soldier fighting on the front lines, she lives in Berlin with her mother-in-law and works as a stenographer. However, she also pines for her married lover while helping her neighbors shelter Jewish families from the Gestapo. Focusing on Sigrid's inner life and the moral dilemmas she faces,
City of Women
is an introspective but dramatic story of an ordinary individual's resistance to authoritarian government.
The Kommandant's Girl
Pam Jenoff
When the Nazis invade Poland, Jewish librarian Emma Bau risks her life to aid the resistance, assuming a false identity as a gentile while her activist husband Jacob goes into hiding. As Anna Lipowski, she becomes the personal assistant to a high-ranking Nazi official, Kommandant Georg Richwalder, hoping to secure information that will help the cause. But Richwalder is hardly the monster Emma expects him to be, and their growing intimacy threatens to jeopardize everything -- her work for the resistance, her marriage, and even her life. If you enjoy
The Kommandant's Girl
, you may want to read
The Diplomat's Wife
, which takes place after the war and features some of the same characters.
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival
Louise Murphy
Abandoned in the woods by their father and stepmother, two Jewish siblings in Nazi-occupied Poland are rescued by Magda, an elderly woman believed to be a witch. Now known as "Hansel" and "Gretel" to conceal their identities from the authorities, the children adjust to their new lives. Then a German officer arrives in the village, threatening this fragile equilibrium. This haunting novel may remind readers of Jane Yolen's
Briar Rose
, which also adapted a classic fairy tale into a sensitive exploration of the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Golden Hour: A Novel
Margaret Wurtele
When the German Army invades her Tuscan village and commandeers her family's estate, 17-year-old Giovanna Bellini's life is turned upside down. At first, Giovanna's primary concern is herself: the occupation prevents her from going out with her friends and flirting with boys. Gradually, however, she comes to appreciate the gravity of the situation -- and takes an active role in resisting the Nazis when, at the request of her partisan brother, she harbors a wounded Jewish Resistance fighter. As much a coming-of-age tale as it is a war story,
The Golden Hour
boasts an authentic progatonist and a strong sense of place.
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The craze for getting a VIP number began in the northern states," said an official. For example, in Punjab, there have been cases of farmers buying VIP numbers for lakhs of rupees in auction. In 2012, a Chandigarh businessman purchased registration number CH-01-AN-0001 for Rs 17 lakh. The number AK-47 is also popular in Punjab and sold for Rs 3 lakh to Rs 5 lakh almost every year.
On Saturday an Emirati businessman bought the distinctive Dubai car plate number AA10 after posting the winning bid of 3.12 million dirhams during the Roads and Transport Authority's (RTA) 97th 'Open Plates Auction'.
Majid Mustafa, who has been participating in the RTA auctions since 2002, told the UAE-based publication that he will keep the AA10 number plate for his personal use and mount it on one of his numerous cars.
The RTA's year-end auction raised a total of 12.75 million dirhams this time around and saw nine other AA code plates, including 12, 50, 100, 333, 786, 1000, 8888, 11111, and 55555 going under the hammer.
Mustafa also said that he has owned a total of 5,000 special plates, many of which he already traded and gained profitable margins. At a price of 6 million dirhams, the most expensive plate he has ever acquired was I10.
During the auction on Saturday, the second most expensive plate went to Essa Al Habbai who bought AA12 for 2.72 million dirhams.
Another Emirati won the bidding for the third most expensive plate, AA50, priced at 1.84 million dirhams, while a 44-year-old Lebanese expat acquired AA11111 for 1.21 million dirhams.
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Another Emirati, 32-year-old businessman Jaber Khamis, won the number AA333 after bidding 700,000 dirhams for it.
"The plate (AA333) is really special. I will mount it on my Lamborghini but I might also sell it if I find the right buyer who will offer a really good price," Khamis told Khaleej Times.
At the auction, RTA also unveiled a new design for Dubai number plates. It will feature the Dubai brand logo, and the letters and digits will be printed in black on white background.
In October, RTA already raised 25 million dirhams at the 'Open Plates Auction'.
"The number auctions organized by the RTA are characterized by transparency and enthusiasm. They measure up to the aspirations of customers who seek exclusivity in this regard. Such auctions suffice the needs and aspirations of number plate enthusiasts, and reflect RTA's keenness to realize its third strategic goal of 'People Happiness'," said Ahmed Bahrozyan, CEO of RTA's Licensing Agency at the time.
$30,000 for personalised plates? Tell him he's dreaming.
Gracemere man Chase Ferguson's "for sale" post attracted plenty of attention overnight, but probably not the kind he was after.
Ironically, the $30K price tag he's placed on a set of "no idea" personalised number plates has spurred a thread of witty remarks and memes, but few interested buyers.
"Two standard size prestige plates. NO IDEA. Excellent condition still on vehicle. $30 000 or nearest offer," he posted to the Rockhampton Buy, Swap, Sell Facebook page on Sunday night.
It comes as the Rockhampton was found to have the second-highest number of personalised plates in the state, with 3644 residents pimping their rides.
The region sits next in line to the Sunshine Coast (5598), which trumps the regions of Mackay (3012); Gladstone (1072); Bundaberg (1072); Fraser Coast (766); Warwick (305) and Gympie (602).
While some are saying Chase's asking price is exorbitant, $30,000 is a bargain compared to some sellers who are asking up in the hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars.
Rodney Gilchrist has taken up "dream" real estate on the personalised plate front, buying up DREAM1, DREAM2, DREAM3, DREAM4, DREAM5 and DREAM6 and re-selling for $300,000.
The number plates have been on the market for about 12 months, as the church pastor patiently waits for a cashed-up fleet manager to buy the plates.
Chase Ferguson has been contacted for comment.
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The third day of the DVLA cherished number plate auction is underway with a bang!
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A businessman who bought the No.1 limited edition licence plate in Abu Dhabi for Dh31 million has been sentenced to three years in jail for issuing a dud cheque to the organisers.
The Emirati man had bought the special number plate at an auction last year.
The Abu Dhabi Misdemeanour Court handed down the sentence to the Emirati man after he was found guilty of fraud and issuing a bounced cheque.
Abu Dhabi public prosecution had ordered for the detention of the 32-year-old man after organisers of the auction filed a complaint that he issued them a cheque after buying the number plate, even though he didn't have enough balance in his bank account.
Prosecutors had detained the businessman. He was charged with fraud and issuing a bounced cheque.
And during interrogation, the Emirati admitted to giving the cheque to orginisers despite being aware he didn't have sufficient funds in his account, said prosecutors.
"He said he was planning to re-sale the rare number plate at a profit so he could pay the value of the cheque to the organisers and maintain enough balance in his account," said a prosecutor.
Authorities, however, said one can only re-sale a number plate bought in an auction after one has paid the full amount and that any resale before making the payment is considered illegal.
The auction, which generated Dh99 million, was hosted by Emirates Auction in cooperation with Abu Dhabi Police on November 19, 2016 at Emirates Palace hotel to commemorate the Abu Dhabi Government's Golden Jubilee.
And the Emirati beat several bidders for the coveted plate after starting at Dh1 million. The limited-edition golden jubilee plates all featured the number 50 in the top left corner.
Fifty vanity Abu Dhabi number plates were up for grabs at the Emirates Auction event.
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Some of the British overseas territories, including Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, use similar number plates to the UK, with the same colours and typeface.
Dubai: U66, Z777 and M2222 will be among 80 unique number plates up for grabs at the Roads and Transport Authority's (RTA) 94th open auction on March 11.
Registration for the year's first auction, which will be held at Emirates Towers' Godolphin Ballroom, will open from March 4.
The last two auctions of last year generated huge interests with single digit plate D5 going for Dh33 million in October, while the plate number Q2 on offer in December went unsold despite massive expectations.
"The recent open auctions saw huge footfall from various community segments. This has promoted us to offer another chance for the public to engage in positive bidding for their fancied numbers in various codes," Sultan Al Marzouqi, Director of Vehicle Licensing at RTA.
The numbers on offer range from two and three digits to four and five digits, including S90000 and U66.
During the auction, plate N572 will be on offer through a draw for the participants.
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Novels have always been fodder for filmmakers, but it seems as though the adaptation pace has been amped up in recent years (and even in recent months), with Hollywood churning out versions of every beloved book, whether it's actually unfilmable or no. But what do the authors have to say about all this? Of course, it depends both on the author and on the adaptation. After the jump, we've collected a few of their funniest responses to the film adaptations of their work, or even just the prospect of said adaptation, whether wry, resigned, angry or goofily psyched. Click through, and add to our collection in the comments!
Alan Moore on the Warner Bros. adaptation of Watchmen
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As of last week, the Turing test has—allegedly—been passed. In 1950, Alan Turing famously predicted that in the early twenty-first century, computer programs capable of sending and receiving text messages would be able to fool human judges into mistaking them for humans 30 percent of the time, and that we would come to "speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted." Two weekends ago, at a Turing test competition held at the Royal Society in London, a piece of so-called "chatbot" software called "Eugene Goostman" crossed that mark, fooling ten of the thirty human judges who spoke with it.
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Dr. Bridget Pieschel, English professor and director of the Southern Women''s Institute at Mississippi University for Women, will review the book "Golden Girls: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women," which she edited from oral histories of graduates from the 1920s to 1957. The monthly Friends of the Library Book Talk will be Wednesday, March 11, at 2 p.m. in the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library at 314 Seventh St. N.
All "MSCW Golden Girls" are urged to come en mass to the talk to relive their college days, learn what many of their classmates have done and are doing with their lives since their graduations and to show support and loyalty to "our dear old MSC."
A golden girl is one who graduated 50 years or more ago from MSCW and MUW. It would be 1974 before the college became Mississippi University for Women. Long before students were called "W Girls," they were sometimes referred to as "Missy Dear."
"In the 1930s and 1940s, women with four-year college degrees found it difficult to break into the working world -- other than teaching -- and especially into jobs usually held by men," Pieschel recounts.
Pieschel is no novice to writing books about MUW history. Her book, "Loyal Daughters: 100 Years of MUW from 1884 to 1984," is in the History and Archives room at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library and also in the library collections for patrons to check out at the main branch near downtown Columbus and the branch at Caledonia. "Golden Girls" is in the History and Archives but not in the collection at this time.
Everyone is welcome to stay after the review to meet and talk with Pieschel. Signed copies of "Golden Days" will be available for sale at the close of the program.
Library Book Talks are held the second Wednesday of each month from September through May and are always open to the public. For more information, contact the library at 662-328-5300.
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"I believe that at the moment we cannot be satisfied with the quality of our game but, at the moment, that is more important than the psychological side. But this was a more physical factor than psychological."
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Former "House" star Amber Tamblyn is a married woman after exchanging vows with comedian David Crozz.
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Sir Anthony Dowell CBE
Director of the Royal Ballet, Anthony Dowell was born in London and studied at the Hampshire School and the Royal Ballet's Lower and Upper Schools.
In 1961 he joined The Royal Ballet and, less than two years later, Sir Frederick Ashton chose him to create the role of Oberon in 'The Dream'. It was in this Ballet that he first danced with Antoinette Sibley, who created Titania, and the foundation for an outstanding ballet partnership was laid.
Dowell was quickly noted for the combination of an outstanding strong technique with a lyrical quality and restraint in his dancing. Equally at home in classical or modern works, his innate dramatic sense enabled him to give life to the heroes of the full-length classical ballets such as Albrecht in Giselle and Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake.
By 1966, he had been promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer and is regarded as one of the 20th century's supreme classical dancers. In September 1986 he was appointed Director of The Royal Ballet having become Assistant to the Director in September 1984 and Associate Director in 1985.
In 1972 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, the youngest dancer ever to be so honoured.
In 1995, he was created a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and presented with the Royal Academy of Dancing's Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award for 1994.
Grand council: Grand Council Member


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Europe hails foothold in space
Columbus lab finally clamped to ISS
Europe finally gained its long-awaited foothold in space yesterday when astronauts attached the Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station, Reuters reports.
The $1.9 billion, ten-tonne cylinder (in pic, centre) took off aboard space shuttle Atlantis last Thursday following years of delays to its original 2002 delivery date, inlcuding the grounding of the shuttle fleet following the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Atlantis itself was slated for a December launch, but suffered two aborted lift-offs due to faulty fuel tank sensors, later rather agreeably resolved with the help of a soldering iron.
In the end, Columbus's marriage to the ISS did not run exactly according to plan. NASA postponed installation for a day when German astronaut Hans Schlegel, slated to carry out an accompanying spacewalk, fell ill.
His place was taken by "space rookie" Stan Love working alongside lead spacewalker Rex Walheim, but a combination of Love's lack of training and a "struggle to attach a clasp for the robot arm" caused the extra-vehicular jaunt to drag on for almost eight hours, 90 minutes longer than scheduled.
In the end, though, French astronaut Léopold Eyharts was able to declare: "Houston, Munich, the European Columbus laboratory module is now part of the ISS."
European Space Agency space station manager Alan Thirkettle enthused: "Today has been a truly momentous step and a historic day for Europe. You might imagine we're rather happy and overjoyed. There were whoops and cheers."
Initial activation of Columbus is scheduled for today, kicking off with a cautious "partial ingress" at 14:50 CET (13:50 GMT) by Eyharts wearing protective glasses and a facemask, and "full ingress" at 20:55 CET (19:55 GMT).
Columbus boasts space for ten "International Standard Payload Racks" (ISPRs), roughly the size of a telephone kiosk, designed to "squeeze the maximum amount of research from the minimum of space", as the ESA blurb puts it.
At launch it carried five ISPRs, housing the Biolab, European Physiology Modules Facility, Fluid Science Laboratory, European Drawer Rack and European Transport Carrier. Further details are available on the ESA link above. ®


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I'm in the process of migrating my blog to a new domain, and will no longer be posting at this address. Please check out http://stuartgunter.org for my new blog and to keep up to date with my posts.
Thanks for reading!
Freemarker Default Number FormattingPosted: September 1, 2011 Filed under: Java | Tags: formatting, freemarker, Java, locale, number format 1 Comment
We use Freemarker quite extensively at Betfair, and a question was raised the other day by one of the developers regarding number formatting. He had a numeric value that was being rendered with thousand separators and it wasn't immediately obvious why. He quite rightly assumed that Freemarker would write the value of the number – unformatted – in the output. After all, this is the default behaviour of pretty much every other language / framework / tool that we use.
Unfortunately, Freemarker sees things differently. And this is where it's REALLY important to make sure you read the documentation! Freemarker claims to be rendering for a "human audience" by default, but they've forgotten that Freemarker is a developer's tool. Programmers are intelligent enough to know when they want numbers to be formatted. Automatically formatting numbers is not doing us a favour. Unless the programmer asks you to do something… don't do it!
Scenarios like this can trip up anyone, and could possibly go unnoticed until something breaks in production. Let's say for example that you were using a number as part of a link that you were rendering in the page. If all your testing used numbers smaller than 1000, you'd never see any problems. It's only when you go over 1000 that the issue makes itself known. Our test data covers a large number of scenarios that quickly exposed this issue, but I can definitely think of smaller projects I've worked on in the past where this would not have been discovered early enough.
In fact, I think this default behaviour is dangerous. It breaks the Principle of Least Astonishment (or Principle of Least Surprise, as we call it). Not only that, but from what I can tell from the docs, it cannot be overridden. So there's no way to change the default back to what is sensible.
Here's an example of what happens when you render numbers using Freemarker and how to make sure you get the output you want. The example below assumes an English locale.
<#assign x = 1000> ${x} <#-- 1,000 --> ${x?string} <#-- 1,000 --> ${x?c} <#-- 1000 --> ${x?string.computer} <#-- 1000 -->
As you can see above, the default rendering of a number is formatted based on locale. If you simply want the raw number, you must explicitly specify that by using ?string.computer or use the shorthand notation ?c.
If you want more information on this, check out the docs.
Even Better Java i18n Pluralisation using ICU4JPosted: August 14, 2011 Filed under: Java | Tags: i18n, icu4j, internationalisation, Java, localization, pluralisation, resource bundle 2 Comments
Last week I wrote about Java's built-in ChoiceFormat class and the support it provides for pluralisation. It is a very useful class, but as pointed out by two commenters (btw… thanks for the feedback!) it doesn't cater well for all languages – particularly those that have more complex rules. This led me to investigate further, as I was certain there would be something useful out there – after all, internationalisation is a very common requirement of a large number of applications. After a little digging, I found that the one library that stands out is ICU4J. So who uses it? Well… pretty much everyone!
So for those that have more complex internationalisation requirements, this is an excellent library to use! I generally find that the best way to find out how something works is to see an example, so I've used the pluralisation example provided in the comments of my previous post to demonstrate ICU4J. I chose this example for a few reasons: firstly, because someone took the time to ask a question and I want to answer it; secondly, because it is clearly not supported by the JDK ChoiceFormat class; and lastly, because I only know languages with simple pluralisation rules.
I wrote a very basic class that simply prints out a localised message looked up from a ResourceBundle – which is probably the most commonly used approach and therefore familiar to most readers.
import com.ibm.icu.text.MessageFormat; import java.util.Locale; import java.util.ResourceBundle; public class IcuDemo { private static final int[] NUMBERS = new int[] {0, 1, 2, 5, 11, 22, 39}; public static void main(String[] args) { printLocalisedMessages("plural", Locale.ENGLISH, new Locale("pl")); } private static void printLocalisedMessages(String key, Locale... locales) { for (Locale locale : locales) { System.out.println(locale.getDisplayLanguage() + ":"); printLocalisedMessage(key, locale); } } private static void printLocalisedMessage(String key, Locale locale) { ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("icu", locale); String pattern = bundle.getString(key); MessageFormat msgFormat = new MessageFormat(pattern, locale); for (int i : NUMBERS) { System.out.println(msgFormat.format(new Object[] {i})); } System.out.println(); } }
The code above should be familiar to everyone, as it shouldn't be all that different from how you're already doing i18n. However, note that I've imported com.ibm.icu.text.MessageFormat instead of the usual java.text.MessageFormat. The really interesting part comes in when we use ICU4J's "plural" format type, which is shown in the following properties files:
plural={0} {0, plural, one{car}other{cars}}
plural={0} {0, plural, one{auto}few{auta}many{aut}other{aut}}
I'm sure you'll immediately notice that I'm not specifying numbers in these patterns, as we did with ChoiceFormat. Instead, I'm simply referring to categories of numbers by predefined mnemonics. This really cool feature is available because a number of language pluralisation rules have already been defined by the Unicode CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository). In particular, we're using the Language Plural Rules, which are provided in the ICU4J package. To explain how this works, let's look at the English example and then work our way up to the Polish example.
English has two categories – singular/plural. These two categories are named as "one" and "other" – fairly straightforward. What this really means in terms of plural rule definition is:
one: n is 1 (by implication, every other number falls into the "other" category)
Polish is more complex than this and requires a number of rules to be defined:
one: n is 1 few: n mod 10 in 2..4 and n mod 100 not in 12..14 many: n is not 1 and n mod 10 in 0..1 or n mod 10 in 5..9 or n mod 100 in 12..14 (by implication, every other number falls into the "other" category)
Clearly the definition of rules makes our lives a lot easier. All we need to know is which category of numbers we want to provide a pluralisation for, and define the message against that name using the format "keyword{message}".
Note: The CLDR points out that the names are just mnemonics and aren't inteded to describe the exact contents of the category, so try not to focus too much on them. It's merely providing categorisation by a recognisable name.
The above example only uses the predefined number categories, but we could easily mix this with explicit values if needed. In this case, the explicit values would be checked first for an exact match, and if none was found then the categories would be searched, and failing that the "other" category would be used. Here's an example of how you can mix the two concepts together:
example={0, plural, =1{one}=5{five}other{#}}
If we formatted this with the numbers 1 to 5 in a loop, this would be formatted as follows:
one 2 3 4 five
Of course, there may be circumstances where the predefined rules don't do what you want (although, we're probably talking about exceptional circumstances now). In this case, you can simply define your own set of rules. This can be done using the PluralRules class or by customising the locale data that's available to ICU4J.
I've only scratched the surface of what you can do with this library – and pluralisation is only one very small part of what it provides – but I hope this is useful and is able to help get you started using it.
Java i18n Pluralisation using ChoiceFormatPosted: August 9, 2011 Filed under: Java | Tags: decimal, formatting, i18n, internationalization, Java 10 Comments
Betfair's site is hugely popular all around the world, and obviously needs to provide a fully localised experience for users across different locales. Yesterday I was looking at how best to provide internationalisation (i18n) support within our core platform and came across the really useful ChoiceFormat class. I had seen it before but hadn't actually explored what it can do until now. It's an extremely basic class in terms of the functionality it provides, but it is as powerful as it is simple.
I'm sure we all know about Java resource bundles for i18n and have probably used them quite a lot – so I won't go into any detail on that. I'll just assume it's common ground. However, if you haven't come across java.text.ChoiceFormat, you're missing out! This is the guts of pluralisation within the i18n stable, and is definitely your friend when you realise that users don't like messages that say "Updated 1 second(s) ago". You know it's 1 second, right? So why not just say that and skip the "(s)" bit? I'm sure many have tried to solve this the hard way by doing the intelligence themselves (defining multiple keys and choosing which to use based on the argument to be passed into it), but this is where ChoiceFormat comes into play.
As per the docs, "The choice is specified with an ascending list of doubles, where each item specifies a half-open interval up to the next item". So let's use the example above to show how it would be defined in a resource bundle:
lastUpdated=Updated {0} {0,choice,0#seconds|1#second|1<seconds} ago
What this does is creates a bunch of contiguous ranges (in ascending order) and finds the best match. I said best match because sometimes there isn't an exact match. In the example above, negative numbers don't match any range – but because they're smaller than the starting range, the first choice is selected. The same logic applies for values that are larger than the highest range (which isn't possible in this example as the highest range ends at positive infinity).
So let's run through the scenarios very quickly:
- If you pass in a negative number, the first choice "seconds" is returned (because it is too small to match anything and the ranges work in ascending order)
- If you pass in a number between 0 (inclusive) and 1 (exclusive), the first choice matches and "seconds" is returned
- If you pass in number 1 (exactly), the second choice matches and "second" is returned
- If you pass in a number greater than 1, the last choice matches and "seconds" is returned
You may have noticed that the definition is different for the last range. What this is effectively doing in code is calling ChoiceFormat.nextDouble(1) which returns the smallest double greater than 1, which is then used as the start of the range. This is not restricted to being used the last range, but can actually be used anywhere. There is a similar ChoiceFormat.previousDouble(double d) that is fairly self-explanatory.
Nifty! Even more so when you consider that some languages have multiple pluralisations to consider (e.g. Russian). So you can't reasonably assume that you're always dealing with a simple singular/plural as we have in English – sometimes there are many different plurals to take into account.
Bug in Java 6 DecimalFormat.format()Posted: August 8, 2011 Filed under: Java | Tags: decimal, formatting, i18n, Java Leave a comment
While trying out some options for decimal formatting, I came across what appears to be a bug in Java 6. I haven't yet traced back exactly which version introduced the bug, but I have managed to verify it on both Windows 7 running Java 6 Update 23 & 24 and on Mac OS X Snow Leopard running Java 6 Update 26.
According to the JavaDocs for java.text.DecimalFormat:
If there is an explicit negative subpattern, it serves only to specify the negative prefix and suffix; the number of digits, minimal digits, and other characteristics are all the same as the positive pattern. That means that "#,##0.0#;(#)" produces precisely the same behavior as "#,##0.0#;(#,##0.0#)".
However, when putting this into practice, the formatter truncates the final character from the output. This is shown in the following JUnit test:
@Test public void testDecimalFormat() { double value = -4000d; final String expected = "(4,000.00)"; final String actualA = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00;(#,##0.00)").format(value); final String actualB = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00;(#)").format(value); // passes assertEquals(expected, actualA); // fails - actualB = "(4,000.00" assertEquals(expected, actualB); }
I have logged this on the Java Bugs Database and will update this post once I have a response from Oracle. But hopefully this helps someone else that has come across the same issue.
UPDATE: Yes, it is a bug. You can track it here (may take a day or two to appear on the external bug database apparently).
CV AdvicePosted: July 18, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Betfair, cv, interview, Java, jobs, resume, tips Leave a comment
I've recently been involved in a number of interviews for our growing team at Betfair, and have been surprised to see some commonly occurring mistakes in some of the CV's. Given the vast number of free resources online that advise job-seekers on how to write an effective CV, it's somewhat disappointing to see some of these issues still plaguing us. This is not intended as a criticism of those that have submitted CV's – in fact, a number of them have been very good! This is simply another one of those free resources that I'm hoping will be helpful to someone.
#1 Think like the interviewer
It's very easy to get consumed with the stress of updating your CV and forget that someone else needs to read it. You should constantly try to read your CV as though you were the interviewer, and then fix anything that doesn't make sense or appear to add value.
#2 Your CV is your personal brochure, not your biography
I can't speak for anyone but myself on this point, but I generally tend to focus on the first two pages of any CV. That should typically include your skills, education, most recent work history (2 most recent positions/projects). Everything of value should be on those two pages. It's not that the interviewer doesn't care (we really do!) – it's that we seldom have the time to read an extensive CV. Bullet points are always preferred over paragraphs… this can't be emphasized enough.
#3 Acronyms… friend and foe
I've been amazed at the number of CV's that include "private" acronyms – in other words, acronyms that only people in your own organisation will know. These are typically acronyms for systems that have been worked on, or internal tools that are used. While acronyms can make a CV much easier to read, you should be careful not to assume prior knowledge by the interviewer. If you need to use private acronyms, make sure you introduce them first… and only introduce them if you intend on using that acronym later. You don't want to give the interviewer a StackOverflowException (sorry, lame programmer humour).
#4 Avoid technology shopping lists
Try to avoid listing an excessive number of technologies on your CV. It might be true that you've had some exposure to loads of different technologies, but try to describe those that are most applicable to the position you're applying for. Admittedly, you may not always know which those are – but if your CV lists more technologies than some of the job postings on JobServe, you should probably cut it down a bit. Again, this is not to say that you should downplay your experience. But it's highly unlikely that you're an expert on everything. If you feel it is important to list them all, try order them for the interviewer. It's nice to know what you consider your major strengths and what you've only dabbled in. It's great when you see that someone has enough interest in their career that they've chosen to learn 10 different languages, but try let your CV demonstrate both the depth and breadth of your knowledge.
#5 Get someone to proofread it
Every interviewer will be looking for something different, but it's almost certain that communication skills are high on their lists. With that in mind, you absolutely must get someone to proofread your CV before submitting it. Spelling mistakes, poor grammar, incomplete sentences and poor punctuation are all too common and they detract from creating a good first impression. This is not to say that you will be judged purely on these grounds, but getting them right will certainly help. But you're a programmer, not an author… right? Wrong! You will be called on to explain your ideas and present your (or your team's) work at some point, and you need to be able to convey it well. A CV that is poorly constructed and full of mistakes doesn't inspire confidence in the candidate's attention to detail. And that same attention to detail is often what helps make a great programmer.
These aren't really ground-breaking revelations in the art of CV-writing, but I think they're the common sense advice that we all need from time to time. I hope this has been helpful, and happy hunting.
And while I'm on the topic – if you're a great developer, passionate about what you do, and keen to join an excellent team… check out the positions we have available!
Common Misconceptions about Web Performance OptimisationPosted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Java | Tags: Java, optimisation, performance, web Leave a comment
What would you do to improve the performance of a web application?
This is a question I've posed to a fair number of Java developers in the past week. A common theme quickly emerged and remained consistent across all the responses, which is that everyone I spoke to immediately began listing improvements to the server-side processing involved in a typical page request. Many of the responses were perfectly valid and often considered "best practice" (as much as I can't stand that term), but few were likely to have much of a noticeable impact to the user. Some even mentioned the use of caching, but only thought to apply it internally within the server (e.g. database cache) and not to the content within the response.
It seems that the natural assumption of many Java developers is to look for optimisations in their code before trying to understand the entire request-response lifecycle and all the actors involved. According to Steve Souders, "80-90% of the time spent by users waiting for pages to load is spent on the frontend". If that comes as a shock to you, then I strongly recommend that you read High Performance Web Sites. It is an excellent reminder of the obvious, but often forgotten, reality that your website is accessed by people, using browsers, across networks and domains, via intermediaries (proxies, etc.), over a common protocol (HTTP).
Digging into each of the bolded items above will give a much better appreciation of the components that act in concert to provide a web experience to the user. If this is the first you've heard of web performance optimisation and you want to know more, I recommend the following sites:
Steve Souders' 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Websites (from his book, High Performance Websites)
Yahoo!'s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website
So next time someone asks you that question, please throw in a few optimisations other than server-side processing.