Last weekend the Indifex developers released the new version of Transifex, “an open service allowing people to collaboratively translate software, documentation and other types of projects.” Codenamed “Pyro" (all releases are named after a X-Men villains), Transifex 0.7 has a pretty lengthy list of new features and bug fixes to make any translator worth his/her salt cry with joy! The one feature sure to turn people’s head is the ability to do their translations online using their Lotte Translation Editor.

Just wanted to re-enforce what Zhang said earlier today about the bleeding edge GNOME Developer’s Kit, now with extra sauce! What is it? It is a continuous build of GNOME packages all bundled up into a distribution (in this case, Foresight Linux) and distributed in a few different formats, such as ISO and VMware. "What’s so special about it", you ask? Is it the fact that different image types can be generated at will?

I’m back from GUADEC 2009 (a blog post dedicated to this will be posted soon, I promise) and am now trying to get caught up with everything that has happened at work and projects I follow. Manage to spend some time today to check what’s new with the Transifex project and am very impressed with the direction it is going. What you see above is the new tool/feature being added for inline, online translation of projects, codenamed Lotte!

Does your role within a project have you asking the following questions? How do I provide an interface for translators to submit translations to multiple projects, regardless of the type of the underlying VCS? How do I reduce the overhead a project maintainer usually undertakes to administrate accounts for translators? How do I help translators do more by eliminating the need to subscribe to each VCS and learn its commands and tricks?

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Foresight 2.1.1. Well known for being a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, this new release brings you the latest GNOME 2.26.1 release, a newer Linux kernel 2.6.29, a revamped notification area, and a ton of Xorg improvements! As always, you can read the complete release notes for a detailed list of all changes.

Quote: "Life is never more fun than when you’re the underdog competing against the giants." Through the years our relationship changed and as with a good wine (I want to believe) it improved. Some of you became really good friends to me and it was painful for me to watch you pack and leave. I can assure you that you’ll be missed... Hang in there and may your 2009 turn out to be the beginning of a great and new adventure!

Dando continuidade ao post do Vladimir Melo, gostaria de compartilhar minha experiência usando o programa Dropbox. Mesmo sendo um usuário do GNU/Linux por tanto tempo, foi somente 2 anos atrás que comecei a usá-lo o tempo todo. Como eu antes trabalhava como um desenvolvedor de .NET e Oracle durante o dia para o Departamento de Educação da cidade de New York, eu tinha um ambiente padrão de desenvolvedor instalado em meu sistema e nada mais.

No finalzinho do ano passado eu passei alguns dias trabalhando para configurar um servidor de músicas bem simples para usar em casa. Como eu estou sempre fazendo algo maluco no meu desktop/laptop que eventualmente sempre me leva a re-instalar o meu sistema operacional, eu estou constantemente movendo meus arquivos de música entre computadores e discos externos. Quando você tem uma coleção de tamanho considerado, este exercício se torna um pé no saco.

For the past few days I’ve been working on setting up a minimalistic music server for home. As I am always doing some crazy things to my desktop/laptop that eventually leads me to re-install my operating system, I find myself constantly moving music files between computers and external media. When you have a decent sized music library, this excercise starts to become a major pain. That’s how I came up with the idea of creating a media server using mt-daapd as my tool of choice.

Built a MT-Daapd Linux appliance to share my music at home. Installed it in a machine with 1GB of RAM and am now as happy as I can be. The whole thing weighs in at 237MB (I’ve included vim, openssh, libogg plus a few other nuggets) and off course everything is managed by the awesome conary technology. I’ve also added ushare (upnp support) and am hoping to make it so that sharing videos and music can be all done via a web interface.