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At last got some nice progress done on Pootle this week, although it isn't visible on http://pootle.wordforge.org yet... * uploading PO files / archives * merging files together (from uploads) and putting unresolvable differences as suggestions * creating / updating files from templates I also put the latest source archives
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We had James's first birthday party today - he turns one next Saturday! Was great fun making a Carrot Cake in the shape of Prince Eddie, his favourite toy. What a blessing and privilege for Danielle and I to be his parents.
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I had a great holiday last week, a much-needed break. I had fun rearranging my office (the same space, but more space...), by making a piece of wood that my computers can rest on underneath my desk. Decided Desktop boxes should ideally be sideways since all the important stuff can
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Very pleased to see the announcement of the Hula Project, a lovely web based mail and calendar solution that Novell has open-sourced. They really seem to be heading in the right direction with this one. Downloaded it and tried to set it up, still a few hiccups so will wait
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Have been playing around with PyLucene which is a native-compiled Python version of Lucene, a Java text indexing and searching package. It's an impressive engineering feat - basically compile Lucene to native objects using GCJ and then use SWIG to produce Python bindings - given how simply it
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The last two months have been full of emotions of all shades... Maurits and Kirsten's wedding on December the 18th. Fantastic celebration. Came out to discover that one of our friends from antenatal class's gorgeous baby Justin had died the night before, apparently of SIDS. Danielle
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Have managed to fix up the Pootle registration process, and set up a Pootle mailing list for any discussion. Also found that Pootle was being Spidered by search engines, so added a robots.txt file as that was placing a lot of load on the server. Now the TODO list
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It's really worth taking a look through the Free Software Magazine. Makes so much sense to have a magazine focussed on free software rather than some particular operating system. Now it would be nice to have regionally variant versions (say an African / Southern African one that adds locally
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Today packaging some stuff up for a client who runs RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Encountered the problem that although RedHat is built up of lots of packages, its virtually impossibile to determine what they are - there's no simple list of packages per distribution version. Although there&
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My sister Debbie got married yesterday! What a fantastic wedding, on Oudekraal beach in Cape Town, with the mountains and the sea ... the wedding just seemed to reflect Debbie and Jonny so well. Celebration, Worship, Community, Joy. they danced by the light of the moon and hand in hand, on
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Having had many deadlines with my St James Software work, I haven't had a chance to respond to many Pootle / translate enquiries as I would have liked to. (Fortunately I've been making progress there, it's been nice to get things finished off). Anyway I
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We've put up a live version of Pootle at pootle.wordforge.org, kindly hosted by my employer, St James Software More details in the press release. What's been fun has been trying to maximize the number of projects and languages - so far we've