Last Thursday the guys at VBug ran a talk at Bournemouth University entitled 'Internationalizating ASP.Net AJAX'. The title was quite interesting to me because I knew about localization with the .Net framework but I wanted to know where the AJAX framework came into it, also I'm currently working in Southampton so I thought I'd go down with a few work colleagues and check it out.

The speaker was Guy Smith-Ferrier who is very knowledgeable on the whole subject of Internationalization and started off with an great overview of how to localize resources for Web or Windows apps using the .Net framework. I knew most of this already so the interesting part for me was when he talked us through localizing strings embedded in Javascript resources using the AJAX framework, because up until now I didn't even know this was possible.

Guy has uploaded his talk slides onto his blog here, so if your even remotely interested in localization and especially how to localize string in Javascript then I strongly suggest you go check it out.

Just like to say thanks to Guy for a great talk and also for the free book :)