Just a few days ago I raised the question whether test.ical.ly should make use of the English language or stick to German.

The question is now answered as you probably noticed and I want to thank you all for your participation in the poll!

I also want to explain the final decision and I want to offer to translate (maybe summarise) the most important topics.

So a bit of history first.

I started this blog to educate me towards test driven development (TDD) as I found that this is an issue that is easy to talk about but hard to master.

Only later I happened to decide to use a symfony plugin as a subject for my studies, which connected me to the symfony community. Also my topics grew more and more and included continuous integration, software metrics, development workflows and much more, most of which was  loosely connected to symfony.

So by now I gained some experience especially concerning PHPUnit testing of symfony 1.4 plugins which is something I couldn’t find too much information about and I want to share.

I also want to promote sfImageTransferExtraPlugin. As open source it is available to a potentially broad audience. Unfortunately just a small part of it can participate in the concepts and ideas behind it if all my posts are in German.

Another thing is, that I work in an international (English spreaking) environment and a lot of my colleagues work with symfony as well and I want to share my findings with them especially.

So these were my concerns about the language.

By now I received a lot of feedback for these few days. I was curious about your reactions and I didn’t really expect so many votes pro German.

Pro German, pro English and indifferent to both are all more or less on the same level. Almost a third of all votes for each.

Given that I had a strong tendency towards English and given that the potential audience not participating in the vote because of the language is quite big, loosing a third of the current audience is painful and sad but acceptable nonetheless. Sorry about that.

Have your say!

Because some of the previous topics I adressed may be interesting still I want to give you the opportunity to choose a few of them to be translated.

I think the most interesting bits have been:

• PHPUnit testing a symfony plugin
• Copy and paste detection and how to deal with it
• Becoming a clean code developer by looking at your own code
• Thoughts about code coverage
• Continuous integration with Hudson-CI
• Thoughts about caching
• and many more..

You can also browse the back catalogue to see if there is more that you would like me to repeat.

I will frequently read the comments on this post so whenever you read this you can still have your say!

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