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• On community support

• I’m in love with the Django community. It’s so vibrant it’s scary. There’s a solution out there for every problem I face. Amazing.

• at night, Saturday 16 August 2008
  Foss, Linux, Mini-Post, Tech/web, Transifex | On community support (Comment!)

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• Workrave: Protecting my health

• The one best thing I’ve done today: yum install workrave. Awesome. Thank you.

• at night, Thursday 14 August 2008
  Mini-Post, Tech/web | Workrave: Protecting my health (Comment!)

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• Data model day

• /me ’s working on big data model changes in Tx.

• at night, Wednesday 13 August 2008
  Mini-Post, Transifex | Data model day (Comment!)

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• Όμορφη Κέρκυρα

• Όμορφο νησί, όμορφες παραλίες, όμορφες. παρουσίες, Η μίνι-τενοντίτιδα ακόμη με ενοχλεί (λίγο η αναρρίχηση, λίγο το hacking), παρόλες τις ημέρες ξεκούρασης και το gel mouse pad.

  Canal d’amour Σιδάρι, Κέρκυρα (Corfu)

• at night, Monday 11 August 2008
  Personal, Thoughts | Όμορφη Κέρκυρα (Comment!)

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• Linux printing in 2008

• One sudo yum install foo2xqx, and my new USB printer is available in CUPS, A4 page all centered and stuff. Strangely (not), I’m not feeling nostalgic of the old days at all. (Note to myself: Buy twaugh a beer.)

• at night, Monday 11 August 2008
  Foss, Linux, Mini-Post | Linux printing in 2008 (Comment!)

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• Η σονάτα του σεληνόφωτος

• Κι ὅταν κλείνεσαι μέσα σ᾿ αὐτὸν τὸν ἦχο τοῦ πετάγματος νιώθεις κρουστὸ τὸ λαιμό σου, τὰ πλευρά σου, τὴ σάρκα σου, κι ἔτσι σφιγμένος μὲς στοὺς μυῶνες τοῦ γαλάζιου ἀγέρα, μέσα στὰ ρωμαλέα νεῦρα τοῦ ὕψους, δὲν ἔχει σημασία ἂν φεύγεις ἢ ἂν γυρίζεις οὔτε ἔχει σημασία ποὺ ἄσπρισαν τὰ μαλλιά μου, δὲν εἶναι τοῦτο ἡ λύπη μου - ἡ λύπη μου εἶναι ποὺ δὲν ἀσπρίζει κ᾿ ἡ καρδιά μου. Ἄφησέ με νἄρθω μαζί σου.

  Τὸ ξέρω πὼς καθένας μοναχὸς πορεύεται στὸν ἔρωτα, μοναχὸς στὴ δόξα καὶ στὸ θάνατο. Τὸ ξέρω. Τὸ δοκίμασα. Δὲν ὠφελεῖ. Ἄφησέ με νἄρθω μαζί σου.

  Γιάννης Ρίτσος, “Η σονάτα του σεληνόφωτος” (1956)

• at night, Monday 11 August 2008
  | Η σονάτα του σεληνόφωτος (Comment!)

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• Πώς να χάνεις πελάτες συμβουλή #24

• Κρατήσεις εισιτηρίων Blue Star Ferries: “Πρέπει να έχετε IE 5.5 για να δείτε αυτήν την ιστοσελίδα”. Μπορεί, αλλά μόλις αποφάσισα να μην τη δω.

• at night, Wednesday 6 August 2008
  Mini-Post, Tech/web | Πώς να χάνεις πελάτες συμβουλή #24 (Comment!)

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• Dawn

• Hey, look! The twilight of dawn. So beautiful. :-)

• at night, Tuesday 5 August 2008
  Mini-Post, Random | Dawn (Comment!)

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• hg changeset ID locality

• Sudden realization: There is a possibility of an hg repo closely following another one to lose sync of changeset IDs (contrary to changeset hashes which are unique). Committing in both, pulling to each other and merging creates different intermediate IDs. I need to remember looking at the chanset ID in the upstream Tx repo before linking to the changeset when closing tickets.

• at night, Saturday 2 August 2008
  Mini-Post, Tech/web, Transifex | hg changeset ID locality (Comment!)

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• Transifex 0.3.1 “A Clockwork Orange” released

• Transifex v0.3.1 “A Clockwork Orange” released today as a semi-minor release. Highlights: New theme, pypi packaging. Read all about it in the original announcement.

  

• at night, Saturday 2 August 2008
  Foss, Linux, Transifex | Transifex 0.3.1 “A Clockwork Orange” released (Comment!)

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• Flashback: DDOT

• Re-playing Day of the Tentacle. Again.

• at night, Tuesday 29 July 2008
  Mini-Post | Flashback: DDOT (Comment!)

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• L10n infrastructure hackers wanted

• Fedora L10n is looking for Python|RPM|server admins eager to help administrate our toolchain. Drop by #fedora-l10n for more info.

• at night, Tuesday 29 July 2008
  Fedora, Mini-Post | L10n infrastructure hackers wanted (Comment!)

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• Status: Κομμάτια

• Nιώθω λίγο κομμάτια από τη χθεσινή αναρρίχηση (σκλερό 6c+), αλλά κάτι φαίνεται να βγαίνει από δουλειά. Αργότερα έχει γαμάτο επιτραπέζιο.

• at night, Sunday 27 July 2008
  Mini-Post | Status: Κομμάτια (Comment!)

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• Transifex development feed updated

• The all-in-one Tx development feed now includes blog posts, discussion threads, updates on tickets, wiki pages, milestones, and code changesets.

• at night, Saturday 26 July 2008
  Mini-Post, Random | Transifex development feed updated (Comment!)

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• Απαντώντας σε spam

• Έχει κανείς κανένα έτοιμο απαντητικό email για ελληνικά spam; Ψάχνω για κάτι σοβαρό και με αναφορές στο νόμο.

• at night, Saturday 26 July 2008
  Mini-Post, Tech/web | Απαντώντας σε spam (Comment!)

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• Duvel

• It should be either drinking two Duvels or merging code branches. Not both.

• at night, Friday 25 July 2008
  Humor, Mini-Post | Duvel (Comment!)

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• Φάνη γιαβρί μου

• Μπαμπάς (Σάββας)

  Δες Φάνη γιαβρί μου, εσύ θα με υποσχεθείς που θα σταματήσεις να μαγειρεύεις και θα παίξεις με τα άλλα αγόρια κι εγώ κοίτα τι σε πήρα (του δίνει μια σφεντόνα).

  Φάνης

  Δε μου αρέσει να σκοτώνω πουλάκια.

  Μαμά (Σουλτάνα)

  Ναι αλλά με αυτά που κάνεις θα σκοτώσεις το δικό σου το πουλάκι!

• at night, Friday 25 July 2008
  Humor | Φάνη γιαβρί μου (Comment!)

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• Testing self-hosted microblogging

• Test: This snippet should appear on my mini-posts blog section and then be pushed on Twitter and Identi.ca.

• at night, Friday 25 July 2008
  Mini-Post | Testing self-hosted microblogging (Comment!)

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• Transifex 0.3 released

• Yeehaa! I’m quite happy to say we Transifex v0.3 yesterday. For the folks that haven’t heard about this (fantastic) project, here’s a snippet from its homepage:

  Transifex is a highly scalable localization platform with a focus on integrating well with the existing workflow of both translators and developers. It aims in making it dead-simple for content providers to receive quality translations from big translation communities, no matter where the project is hosted.

  Transifex 0.3 is a major release, including a lot of under-the-hood changes. We’ve added full i18n support, and now in addition to the templates, per-module information stored in the database, such as names and descriptions, can be translated as well. As soon as possible we’ll switch to eating our own dogfood, and translations to Transifex will be served from Transifex. The biggest change in 0.3 is probably the change of the libraries used for our models, views and widgets. Now these componenets should be easier to develop on top of, and more ready for switching to TurboGears 2 when it stabilizes. To increase the quality of our code and releases, we’ve added unit test cases for most of the views and models, and more will come in 3.0.1.

  Here are the major changes, taken straight from the NEWS file.

  Transifex version 0.3 “Get smart”

  Released: 2008-07-20

  • New Features:
  • Full i18n support in both templates and database (Diego Búrigo Zacarão)
  • Support for editing repositories (Diego Búrigo Zacarão)
  • Switched model library from SQLObject to SQLAlchemy (Asgeir Frimannsson)
  • Switched templating language from Kid to Genshi (Diego Búrigo Zacarão)
  • Switched widget library to ToscaWidgets (Diego Búrigo Zacarão)
  • Code quality control, unit testing (Dimitris Glezos, Diego Búrigo Zacarão)
  • Development moved to transifex.org, references updated (Dimitris Glezos)
  • Translations:
  • German (Fabian Affolter)
  • Italian (Silvio Pierro, Francesco Tombolini)
  • Malay (Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan)
  • Hungarian (Sulyok Péter)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Diego Búrigo Zararão)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Better support for multiple pages in tables (Dimitris Glezos)
  • Fixed GIT support for non-master branches (FH #17) (Christos Trochalakis)
  • Hide links to admin pages from homepage for non-admins (Dimitris Glezos)
  • Form validation in submit form (FH #51) (Diego Búrigo Zacarão)
  • Cleaner commit msg for decentralized VCS (Tx #3) (Dimitris Glezos)
  • Fixed redirect after submission to correct branch (Diego Búrigo Zacarão)

  Tarballs are available at http://transifex.org/wiki/Download.

  Thanks to all those who made this possible.

  Right. On to merge the next set of features now.

• at night, Tuesday 22 July 2008
  Foss, Linux, Transifex | Transifex 0.3 released (Comment!)

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• Recap from TcOc Athens ‘08

• Better late than never, but the slides from my presentations (pdf) are now available. The talk was a 10-minute one, and the feedback was quite positive. Good to see the number of people who agree with the premise and value proposition is growing.

  Oh, and here are a bunch of photographs from the event, and one of me giving the talk:

  

• at night, Thursday 10 July 2008
  Random | Recap from TcOc Athens ‘08 (Comment!)

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