Archive for July, 2008
Babel translations done easy
The Babel team has put together a new feature that makes it really easy to translate Eclipse strings. Today I logged in and was attempting to translate this string to French:Filters matches that are inside deprecated members
I’m fluent in French, but all the software I use is English, so I had no idea where [...]
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Community vs. Quality
At Babel we’re trying to solve the Localization of Eclipse problem with a community approach, where anyone can help translate Eclipse. However, a recurring concern (shared amongst commercial entities) is the quality of the translations, as they are not being done by professional translators.
As I was casually testing a new Babel feature, I stumbled [...]
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Mailing List Goodness
We implemented RSS feeds for most mailing lists last summer. They worked great except if you wanted to use the RSS to actually read the list, as some subscribers want to do, you couldn’t see all of the content. The default RSS2 feed description does not contain a field for full content, only [...]
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Your NFS server needs more RAM when…
… sometimes all your NFS processes are in the ‘D’ state (which essentially means the process is waiting for I/O).
(there is a picture here)
My usual strategy for busy NFS servers (or other file servers) is to have enough RAM to cache about 10% of the data it’s serving. This box is serving about 600G of [...]
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Ganymede after 12 days
I’ve finally come up for air after being quite busy with the Ganymede release.
I ran some download numbers, and with 425,000 downloads so far we’re on track to beat last year’s Europa numbers.
JEE
163033
38.4%
Classic
155451
36.6
Java
56196
13.2
CDT
38052
9.0
Modeling
4582
1.1
RCP
4228
1.0
Reporting
2727
0.6
On the OS/platform side:
win32
354893
83.6
linux32
40183
9.5
mac
17915
4.2
linux64
9473
2.2
Friends of Eclipse used their superhero powers to download [...]
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Babel around the world
I’m discovering more and more non-English sites that talk about Babel. Here are my latest findings:
China
China (more)
France
Poland
If you find others like this, please let me know. It’s good to read from the international communities out there.
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