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phpMyAdmin has in last year received various useful features, which are not that well known. I've decided to give them some promotion before releasing phpMyAdmin 4.0.

The server monitoring part is already present since phpMyAdmin 3.5, but some of the parts were further improved in 4.0.

Server monitor (as you can see on picture above or on demo server) allows you to follow server status in real time. Besides predefined charts, you can choose to follow any of MySQL server status variables or some system parameters.

If you see something weird in the charts, you can select interval and inspect slow or general query log (if you have enabled it). This can help you finding most problematic queries for your server.

Advisor (on picture above or on demo server) is another way to improve server performance - it comes with extensive set of rules, which can help you tuning performance for your workload. Your server has to be running for significant time to give some reasonable recommendations (so don't expect these on the demo server, which is restarted quite often). However it is still recommended to read server documentation before doing any adjustments, as the setting might have some side effects, which will affect your workload as well.

Of course these are not magic pill to cure your unresponsive server, but can help you a lot in finding possible bottlenecks.

phpMyAdmin 4.0-rc1 is out and it's really time to work on translations if you want them to be ready for final release..

So let's look at which translations are at 100% right now (new ones are bold):

• Catalan
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (United Kingdom)
• Estonian
• French
• Greek
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Almost complete:

• Galician
• German
• Polish
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Slovenian

As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 4.0 using translation server.

If your language is already fully translated and you want to help as well, you can translate our documentation as well.

You might have already noticed that there is Hackweek 9 coming next week. At SUSE we will get pizzas, icecream and other nice stuff, but most importantly we can spend the week on hacking anything we want.

Same as last year, I want to spend most of my Hackweek on Weblate, nice crowdsourcing tool for translations. The major goal is to finish 1.5 release, what should not be that hard. The most challenging bits for new machine translation interface are already implemented, and the rest is pretty much only tweaking of existing code.

Another thing we want to explore is possibility of using Weblate for openSUSE translations. Currently they are mostly kept in SVN, what is blocker for using Weblate, but we will see what can be done there.

Next round of phpMyAdmin 4.0 translation status report is coming.

So let's look at which translations are at 100% right now (new ones are bold):

• Catalan
• Czech
• Dutch
• English (United Kingdom)
• Estonian
• French
• Greek
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Almost complete:

• Chinese (China)
• Danish
• Galician
• German
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Slovenian

As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 4.0 using translation server.

If your language is already fully translated and you want to help as well, you can translate our documentation as well.

phpMyAdmin's website just got small facelift from me. The motivation was to make navigation easier in some parts and to come up with consistent color schema.

This time changes are not that major as in past - basically just CSS changes and few minor changes to HTML code. The structure of the website is still pretty much same and I did not touch the texts at all.

Unfortunately this is still not responsive design, so it will not look that good in small or huge resolutions, but I hope to get back to this later.

Finally, I've found some time to go through last year photos and make a good selection for my photo gallery.

While doing that, I've also adjusted the structure a bit, while putting together things which I think deserve own gallery. The biggest change is that there is now separate gallery for Czech-Saxon Switzerland.

Lot of new photos were uploaded to Dolomiti album or for Slovakia.

Photo uploader has just got first release under new maintainer. It mostly fixes various bugs, but the project is going on.

Full list of changes:

• Compatibility with Python 3.
• Fix build with Python 2.7.
• Added documentation in Sphinx format.
• Updated imageshack support.

Thanks to Andrew Shadura for taking over this tool.

PS: The package should be soon available in Debian as well.

This night you might have noticed that some services like hosted Weblate or phpMyAdmin wiki being quite flaky.

It was caused by DDOS attack which pretty much busted firewall and thus made unable to open new connections. In the morning when I've realized this, I introduced another breakage by too strict filtering on firewall :-). However now everything should be back to normal.

For some time, Weblate was showing avatars for users. Just as I've discovered Libravatar - free and federated alternative to Gravatar, I thought it would be better replacement.

Quickly looking at their website, it seems that they transparently provide all avatars from Gravatar as well, so the migration seems to be pretty much painless. Basic replacement to use their server is just matter of changing base URLs, however to support federated behavior, you have to install pyLibravatar. Weblate in Git now supports both these ways.

While implementing the client side, I did also setup my own instance of Surrogator to provide avatars for some of my domains. Surprisingly this worked fine without problems, but let's see how much used this will actually become.

Next round of phpMyAdmin 4.0 translation status report is coming.

So let's look at which translations are at 100% right now:

• Czech
• Dutch
• English (United Kingdom)
• Greek
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Almost complete:

• Chinese (China)
• Danish
• Estonian
• French
• Galician
• German
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Slovenian

As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 4.0 using translation server.

If your language is already fully translated and you want to help as well, you can translate our documentation as well.