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Developer reflects on 11-year-old internationalization class and career path

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The author reflects on the 11th anniversary of committing code for an internationalization (i18n) class they developed for a PHP project. This class, designed to manage translations for websites, was inspired by Ruby on Rails and later rewritten in both PHP and Go due to scalability issues. The author details their career path, from early programming experiences and winning SkillsUSA to working with companies like Cisco and Oracle, and their passion for space exploration, which led them to host a podcast. The i18n class ultimately enabled a small magazine company to expand its reach globally by translating its website into multiple languages. AI

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Andrei Merlescu ·

    A story of i18n

    <p>Last Friday, 11 years ago, I ran <code>git push</code> on commit <code>9205186</code> for a <strong>php</strong> project that was called <em>mtds-mvc.</em> For those who don't know, <code>mvc</code> means <b>M</b>odel <b>V</b>iew <b>C</b>ontroller. Around the time that Laravel…

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