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Using Aurelia with internationalization

I want my Aurelia app to support multiple languages. For example, when a user navigates to www.mysite.com/sv/start, I want them to view the site in Swedish. What is the best approach for solving this problem in Aurelia?

There is an Aurelia plugin for handling internationalization. Here are some helpful links:
GitHub page
Getting started
Aurelia localization
Using multiple translation files in aurelia-i18n
i18n update announcement

Since we share translations (web portal based on Aurelia and various mobile applications) we use this approach:
Translations are in database;
In Aurelia project we have LanguageService class responsible for loading translations from database and taking care about current language and related, language specific, culture information;
LanguageService is instantiated on the login page and then injected among components via #autoinject from aurelia-framework;
Each component or page has its own binded labels and properties translated from LanguageService;
This approach can be applied in your case because you can parse language id from given route.

Yet another .net custom cms

I'm trying to switch my custom cms written in php into .net c#. I was thinking to use cms as a learning project. I'm going to use C#, NHibernate ORM layer, mssql, mvc3 and jquery.
I'm aware there are plenty of commercials or open source cms, but still I'm going to spend some of my free time trying to learn new technology working on project like this.
So, is there anyone out there who is willing to share some ideas on creating cms domain model, usefull link, ideas, etc.
Thanks

A really basic CMS consist of 3 elements:
one database table to hold your "pages". The table structure is "name" and "content"
a route to transform requests of type /cms/pagename to a fixed controller, the method called cms and pagename as a parameter
a embeddable html editor
Now, there are two ways your "page" can be invoked. It is either create mode or view/edit mode.
In "create" mode, the page is requested but it is not in the database yet (e.g. cms/announcement1). In this mode you create a view consisting of a html editor and upon submit, you persist the page to the database.
In "view" mode, the page is requested and is IS in the database. You perform any necessary rewriting (for example you rewrite internal links of the form [cms/pagename] to a fully routable http address) and render the content.
If the user is authorized to edit the page, you also show a "edit" button which then invokes the html editor with the page loaded and ready to be edited.
And that's it.
There are tons of additional elements (caching, different built-in page types, embedding images, youtubes, preformatted texts) etc. but all of them are optional and you can introduce new features when you have the core already implemented.
Once I wrote a simple CMS following the structure above, it was a part of a bigger solution and till now it's been sucesfully deployed several hundred times. An advantage of a custom CMS is that it can be really simple and easily maintanable.

Track embedded charts via Google Analytics

I've got a site which produces charts such as the one below
I'd like to encourage visitors to embed the generated graphic on their own sites and blogs. Is it possible to include views for that chart in google Analytics? I want to be able to see when a site embeds the image so that it's tracked in the analytics reports.
I'd envision some API that I can call from the server-side method which generates the PNG, but haven't been able to find anything specific.
Thanks!

This is indeed possible, have a look at the Google Analytics for Mobile Websites documentation. This details how to build a request to google analytics on the server, with quite a few different code samples (C# included).
While this documentation revolves around tracking page views, this concept could be extended to other types of activity you can record in google analytics, such as Events. In your specific situation I think I would want to setup the view of the chart as an Event, as this will not 'mess up' your true traffic (though you could use an advanced segment to exclude the chart traffic if you chose to register them as page views).
The documentation for event tracking is available here. Looking through it should give you a good idea of how you could express viewing your charts. Once you got an idea of how you wanted to track the event in GA, write the javascript and then view the URL (beacon) it generates to send the information to google. You'll be able to use that as a template to send event information from the server.
In regards to actually serving the image, you have a lot of options. If you app is written in MVC, look at the FileResult class (and the asssociated File() method available on the Controller class). If you working in a Webforms app, you will be using a Response.WriteFile() or something to that affect. This wrox article has an example of the idea behind this. The example is for creating a no leaching / hotlinking image handler, but the concept of writing an image to the HttpReponse is the same.

Flash plugin that allows users to create a PDF or image file

I am developing a ASP.NET web site where users will need to be able to create their own business cards. So, I'm looking for a tool (most likely Flash) that I can easily integrate into a web site and lets users add text and custom images to their cards and then create an image and/or PDF from their work.
is there a plugin that does this?

If you write your own business-card creator in flash, you can save the view to PDF files using AlivePDF.

You could have a look at this: http://www.shirtnetwork.com/en
It is less of a plugin and much more of a fully customizable software solution, with an administration backend, PDF export, billing etc. . I worked on the client and I must say it is a very mature and potent software and probably can do about anything you want, when it comes to customizing products. I don't know, whether you like the pricing model, OTOH to my knowledge, they also provide provision-free licences.
I don't know, whether there are reasonbly expensive components available, that do this for you, because you can get a load of money out of this business, so I wouldn't expect anyone to give them away for free.
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Sharepoint intranet portal

Migrating (rewriting) a whole portal originally made in .net to shareopoint doesn't seem like a very easy thing to do.
I've been assigned such task and now i'm just learning, planning and starting to get things practical in order to accomplish it faster.
It's not exactly a question, it should be a discussion about it and may help others who might get to do the same job further on.
1 - There's something like a "message board" in the current portal, which i'm planning on building with a blog site kind, what do you sugest?
2 - as asked in another question, i have to manage users, and the local active directory is organized and reliable, so i guess that's what i'm going to use
3 - There's got to be a way to store files, images, documents and having version controlling in some of them.
4 - There's got to be a customization in design and a cleaning in the default controls of sharepoint masterpage (which may be useless for the desired purposes)
5 - About 30 local users and being accessible from the internet (local server) in case our consultors have to access it from clients
6 - i have available a version of the Visual Studio 2010 (already with the graphical webpart designer) because the company i work is MS gold partner.
7 - I'm going to program webparts in c#, and the designing part is still a mistery to me, since i'm not that familiar to shareopint yet.
I'd like some tips, links and answers.. i'm going to be watching this question from now on and answering any other information.

1.) SharePoint 2007 has some blog/wiki/board functionality but it's very immature. I tried to get my team to use them but the user interface is lacking and it is challenging to enhance those elements. SP2010 might offer a better experience though.
2.) User management in SharePoint is easy to perform but difficult to manage. Establish processes for adding/modifying end users and keep the number of people with that ability to a minimum. Otherwise it gets out of control and you end up not knowing who has access to what. I would also suggest relying on AD groups as opposed to giving individuals specific access in sites.
3.) Document storage is SharePoint's forte, I think you'll be impressed.
4.) SharePoint branding will require some time but other people have it down to an art form. Note that some pages (referred to as Application pages) shouldn't be fully controlled. Also note that you don't want to remove controls from the master page as some functionality in SharePoint assumes the controls are there - rather it is better to hide them using CSS.
5.) This sounds like a bad idea. SharePoint exposed to the Internet is supposed to be severely locked down - but if you lock it down (i.e. remove access to Application pages), the functionality that you seek won't be available. Have you considered an intranet and separate extranet?
6.) Should be okay, VS2010 is supposed to be a better development experience with regards to SharePoint.
7.) Keep your branding and functionality separate and be sure to deploy them using solution files (as opposed to working directly with the file system). Also, never ever read/write the database directly.
I think you'll find that replacing a custom intranet with SharePoint is a common task but there will be a learning curve. The hard part will be branding and data migration. End users will reject the new system if it is slow - so be sure to get the architecture and configuration right before launch (might require a consultant).

1 - There's something like a "message
board" in the current portal, which
i'm planning on building with a blog
site kind, what do you sugest?
SharePoint discussions are perfect for what they are intended ... small targeted discussions. A forum is very different. It is a centralized area with multiple threads with different topics. You can try CodePlex (which is your friend)
SharePoint Forums
2 - as asked in another question, i
have to manage users, and the local
active directory is organized and
reliable, so i guess that's what i'm
going to use
AD is perfect if you already have it ... nice thing is that you can use the Profile page to update AD information which syncs ... you have a lot of capability with this. But, one of the main benefits is that SharePoint can support multiple authentications. You can extend a SharePoint site and plug in a different authentication (like SQL Auth) and then multiple sets of users can interact on the same sites with different permissions. Not to mention that SharePoint doesn't just provide site access but you can make security granular all the wat down to individual items in a list or library.
3 - There's got to be a way to store
files, images, documents and having
version controlling in some of them.
This is where SharePoint has the most capability OOB.
4 - There's got to be a customization
in design and a cleaning in the
default controls of sharepoint
masterpage (which may be useless for
the desired purposes)
We have a completely customized MasterPage complete with code behind. You need to know about Feature Stapling and Feature Receivers. Also use Heather Solomon's website
5 - About 30 local users and being
accessible from the internet (local
server) in case our consultors have to
access it from clients
SharePoint seems almost overkill for this number of users.
6 - i have available a version of the
Visual Studio 2010 (already with the
graphical webpart designer) because
the company i work is MS gold partner.
Get the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint
7 - I'm going to program webparts in
c#, and the designing part is still a
mistery to me, since i'm not that
familiar to shareopint yet.
Look into Application Pages instead of WebParts ... Application pages are way more flexible for custom forms than web parts. Web parts are only usefull for when functionality needs to be available on an ad hoc basis so that you can allow users to drag the functionality onto a page or if you need to restrict functionality to specific sets of users (since layout pages are available to all sites).

The answers to this person's similar but not identical question may be helpful: Sharepoint for a C# Asp.net Developer
There's a lot of help available in other existing SO questions. Just click on the "sharepoint" tag, then sort by votes, and you'll find a lot of interesting reading.

Regarding 7 - Programming web parts:
Have a look at SmartPart on CodePlex. This is a fairly easy way to create simple web parts especially if you have some ASP experience.