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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
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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