Australian Health Identifiers

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There are a number of different health identifiers in use throughout Australia, some for patients, some for doctors, some for organisations. Each identifier has its own particular use and rules around its format, with some more complex than others.

Good software will generally check the validity of field inputs where possible. For example, a field for an email address would …

Internationalised Documentation in Mac OS X

It was back in December of 2004 that I first considered the idea of internationalised (or internationalized for those in the US) documentation.

First, some terminology. Apple defines “Internationalisation” as “the process of designing and building an application to facilitate localization”. “Localisation”, in turn, is defined as “the cultural and linguistic adaptation of an internationalized application to two or more …