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Aaron J. Siego thinks that porting too much open source software to Windows will kill open source on the desktop. The fear reminded me of a conversation I had with Dwayne and Alberto in Tanzania. I said, I don't think we should define the platform in terms of
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Preached at Jubilee last Sunday night on building with gold, silver and precious stones - how we build the church. Included this great version of the three little pigs ("Wolf-Side story"?) and a picture of the Taj Mahal, contrasted with the Cardboard House mentioned last week on Slashdot.
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Came across this in comp.lang.python, fairly useful for localization work as you often have to guess what encoding something is in: Re: character encoding conversion Now, how should you guess the encoding? Here is a strategy: 1. use the encoding that was sent through the HTTP header. Be
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Design a new splash screen for the upcoming 2.0 release - I like these ideas so far: simple clean clean with a photo round buttoned splash bands classic mouette fantasy seascape dark vertical band Funny how its easier to keep this list on my blog than in my bookmarks
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According to Microsoft Australia's managing director, "There are plenty of products out there with features we don't have. We have plenty of features that our customers don't use."
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In Tanzania for the training camp. Has been pretty interesting discovering how the Swahili Localization Project works. They have a pretty thorough team incorporating top experts on Swahili from Universities and research institutions and tehnical people. They have worked hard on generating a glossary first before translating software which is
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Just leaving to go to a training camp for the Swahili Localization Project in Arusha, Tanzania ... should be fun but already missing Danielle and James and I haven't left yet! Will be quite a comprehensive training camp and I'll be doing a session on using the
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Over the last week I've started development on Pootle, a simple web portal for localization... named after a Flumps character thanks to Danielle's suggestion. Its been really fun and the progress has been quick. Once its workable we'll try get a public implementation somewhere.
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Looked through Firefox and Thunderbird extensions and have a setup I like now... Firefox * Web Developer - indispensible for hacking around with sites. * JavaScript debugger Venkman - fantastic, always used this in Mozilla and now I can use it from Firefox. Now if only I could plug it into IE
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Did some work at the Jubilee Linux lab (5 old slow computers each with their own version of Fedora - 4 at the moment because one of the power supplies has died...) upgraded to xfce-4.1.90 This is the latest version of xfce (the lightweight desktop environment we use)
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Worked quite a bit on ooo-build stuff the last two days. Got cvs access sorted out so I can add my patches directly. Got a full + complete build working on Fedora using src680-m55 with ooo-build head. Started trying to get it going with mingw. Realised I was messing up passing
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Well I've been trying to build OOo 680 (2.x series) using ooo-build, which doesn't quite work yet. I'm putting the patches I'm using at http://davidf.sjsoft.com/files/ooo-2.x-patches/ along with a patch to apply to say what to