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Translating with PoEdit

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Is your favorite application possible to translate? If the developers used the GNU gettext library, yes, with poEdit or similar editor. Wordpress is an example.

To translate you do not have to be able to code, but of course you have to know the language well. So dont be afraid to try! :)

Step 1, the POT
This is a step which should already have been taken care of by the developer. poEdit scans the files in a catalog for translatable strings to create a file named .pot (Portable Object Template). If there is a .pot-file, use it to create a .po for your language.

Step 2, the PO
The .po-file (Portable Object) is the one you will work with, it contains the strings and values for the translation. The naming of files can be different between projects. For example, a common way to make a swedish translation: choose to open the POT and generate a .po-file, save as sv_SE.po for the swedish language.

Step 3, the MO
When you translate the strings you have the original text to the left, and the translation to the right. Mark the word you want to translate and fill in the form at the bottom. Each time the file is saved, a .mo (Machine Object) file is generated. It is this file the webbapplication will use.

Translating with poEdit
The reason I write this post is to make people understand that to translate applications using this technique, you don’t have to know how to code. Does your favorite application miss translation for your language? If it supports gettext, all you need is poEdit and the .po(t)-file. What are you waiting for? ;)

Some more reading on this subject:

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A confession about editors

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I have a confession about editors to make. I hate(!) auto-completion.

In theory it sounds great with suggestions and auto-features. In real life it’s an obstacle to overcome.
The plan is, I guess, to make me faster. But instead it slows me down. If I know what I’m going to write in a script I don’t get faster with popups and shit.

Can I tweak the auto-completion in most editors? Yes of course, but almost never enough. So I just either get more and more annoyed during the day, or I turn it off. The editor that gives me the complete control over this features gets my love.

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How to make Netbeans use tabs for indention

Monday, February 1st, 2010

I’m really starting to like it, but got stuck on how to make Netbeans use tabs for indention. Deselecting the option “Extend tabs to spaces” didn’t work for me, I still got those damn spaces (I hate indention by spaces).

I found the solution though, go to your “Options“-panel, choose the “Editor” page, select “Formatting” and set “Tab size” and “Number of spaces to indent” to the same size.

Update: More PHP’ers falling for Netbeans.

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Ideas from LinkedPHPers

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

I got some ideas from LinkedPHPers, a group on LinkedIn. There is a discussion going on, “What is the best free application that runs in Ubuntu 9.10 – the Karmic Koala for development of websites in PHP?” My own anser was Quanta Plus or Eclipse PDT for projects and gEdit for lighter/faster edits. But a lot of people mentioned Netbeans. So I’m giving Netbeans a try on my Ubuntu and my OS X machine.

A brief try today I like it, but I think the use of snippets/templates/palettes/macros (different names in different editors for the recycling of code) should be made easier. I like the way Quanta handles them, drag and drop to create but the option for more advanced edit. And stored in a common format like .txt. The whole idea with snippets is to speed up your coding, at least to me. But I still need to check further in Netbeans, as I said I only had a brief look today. So this is NOT a review … yet ;)

By the way you might have noticed I got some new pages up, “Free editors for OS X” and “Free texteditors for Linux”. I intend to continue with Windows editors soon, and the review them all.

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Quanta Plus on Mac OS X

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

The image you see below is the editor Quanta Plus on Mac OS X. It is a port of KDE WebDev and is usually run on Linux. Since I’ve been working with it for a while I tought it would be nice to get it going on Apples Mac OS X too.

You can run Quanta Plus on Apples platform OS X

Macports
I began by installing MacPorts (an “an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system”).
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Snippets in Quanta Plus

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The latest months I’ve been working as an employee with Quanta on Xubuntu, and I love the way snippets is handled in Quanta Plus. They are stored as simple .txt-files, which are created when you drag selected code into the sidebar. The snippets are called “Templates”, which might be a little confusing. They also have a scope – Global, Local or Project. I mainly use Global, so I have all in the same place and can reach them. I then share the with Dropbox, making the snippets available in my OS X and Windows too.

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Problems with Eclipse in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Since upgrade of Linux I have a lot of problem with Eclipse in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). First of all buttons are not possible to press any more. But I also have an issue with that it is very slow. Other people also seem to have the problem and have posted workarounds, but none of them has done the trick for me so far.

At work I use Quanta Plus instead at the moment, and I kind of like it. Would love to have it on OS X and Windows too though.

The button who wouldn't be pressed

The button who wouldn't be pressed

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PHP code completion with Eclipse PDT

Monday, February 9th, 2009

On of the editors I use a lot is Eclipse PDT. First of all I like it, of course, but also because it’s cross platform and I got it working great in both Linux, Mac and Windows. I love it when I do object oriented PHP-work. The code completion sence the classes I’ve created and gives me a list of my own methods when I type. This is of course avilable in other editors also, but the whole package in Eclipse PDT and versitility makes it my favorite editor.

Code completion in Eclipse PDT

Code completion in Eclipse PDT

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