Michal Čihař - Archive for 3/2012

Thanks to great feedback I've received on Weblate, I've decided to release 0.2 version quite soon to fix things where people complained most. It improves validation of some forms and there are lot of improvements in editing translations, especially plurals.

Full list of changes includes:

• Improved validation of several forms.
• Warn users on profile upgrade.
• Remember URL for login.
• Naming of text areas while entering plural forms.
• Automatic expanding of translation area.

You can find more information about Weblate on it's website, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user.

PS: As a special bonus, Weblate now comes also with documentation (also available in docs directory in sources).

Packt Publishing has offered phpMyAdmin to sponsor some coding contest with books. The contest is already running since Monday and we have first winner, but still, your chances are pretty high.

So in case you are interested in having Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management, go ahead and check out the contest rules.

After about week of (not so heavy) development, I can announce availability of Weblate - web based translation tool with tight Git integration.

The project was started because I was not happy with existing solutions (see my blog post) as all of them was missing some features I find useful. I started with quite simple definition:

Minimalistic web based translation with direct commit to git on each translation made. There is no plan in heavy conflict resolution as these should be primarily handled on git side.

Also the project started with defined list of features:

• Easy web based translation
• Propagation of translations across sub-projects (for different branches)
• Tight git integration
• Usage of Django's admin interface
• Upload and automatic merging of po files
• Links to source files for context

Pretty much all of that is completed right now, however there will be definitely some issues which will need fixing.

All important information about the project are available on it's website, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user.

Please give it some testing as I plan to deploy it on http://l10n.cihar.com/ pretty soon.

During weekend, I had great opportunity not only to visit Prague Airport, but also to taste airspotting. As photography is my hobby, this was interesting experience, though I don't think it would be my favorite thing to capture.

Anyway we could see some interesting places - L1011 TriStar KC1 from Royal Air Force, two Boeings 747-400F and Boeing 777-300. The Boeings being the biggest airplanes you can regularly see in Prague.

So lets stop talking and here are few pictures: