Alex Sexton
Modenizr/Jquery Team member. Bazaarvoice
Alex Sexton is a JavaScript developer from Austin, TX. A distant relative of his owns a winery somewhere in Australia, so he's practically a native. He works on large JavaScript Apps at Bazaarvoice, and enjoys the challenges of building on the web platform. He has an adorable puppy named Batman, he runs the Texas JavaScript conference and serves as a developer on the Modernizr team. This is his first time in Australia and he hopes he doesn't see any spiders. Alex tweets as @SlexAxton and blogs at http://alexsexton.com
Topic
The frequency and viability of using the web platform to build applications is on a meteoric rise. Despite the global nature of the web, the internationalization toolchain is lagging far behind other more notoriously sexy disciplines like data-binding and drop-shadows. We're left with an environment that isn't friendly to anything that requires lots of data constantly being loaded, and that has little-to-no native support for multi-language strings. There are a lot of cool projects and specifications that don't get quite as high on hacker news but that are solving these problems. Scouts honor, there are some super-interesting problems when it comes to building an app that has flexible pluralization and gender control. This talk will identify the problems and hopefully a few solutions to not killing yourself while internationalizing your sweet new single-page app.
