http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com The programmers' Kafe-Koffee Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:05:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was all about mapping and macboook. couple of pics: I had been mapping different parts of ccu, parts of salt lake, park street, rashbehari avenue, ruby hospital, and the brand new shopping mall South City at Prince Anwar Shah Road, South Kolkata. It was a day full of fun (and ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/a-day-kolkata/ This feature was originally proposed by Dan Karran as a comment in one of my earlier posts. Anyway, so here we have "show all / filter by my language" tags in the user diaries' pages. By default, all entries are shown. We can click on 'filter by my language' so ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/language-filtering-of-diary-entries/ After translation updates, I did the l10n statistics. This basically give the translators an idea of number of pending/completed strings and percentage of localization done for all locales currently supported by the app.  For this i created a Statistics table in database using migration. Now the statistics are updated when ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/l10n-statistics/ Its' been a while since i last posted an update. So now, I need to open-discuss all my exploits for last 2-3 weeks. I owe lot of thanks to my mentor Mikel Maron for helping  me out in testing different features, pointing out some important bugs, suggesting new features and ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/translation-updates-via-rss/ I just loved the Indian national anthem "Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya He...." orchestrate loud and ever-inspiring as it's always on that moment of golden triumph of this young shooter. They say that it's an individual gold for India in olympics after 3 decades. Everyone knows its' far more credible ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/congrats-abhinav-bindra/ In last couple of days, I added the user language preference in the osm rails-port. It is basically implemented by a drop-down menu in the settings page of the user, from where he can easily select & save the desired locale. When the selection is saved, it's saved in the ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/users-language-preference-added-in-osm-rails-port/ Today i finished commiting all the globalized views. You check them out in the svn: [http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port_branches/i18n/app/views]. Some of the views have simply <%= "text to globalize".t -%> things and some also have <%= "Hello, %s".t(nil,@user.name) -%> sprinf() like stuff. This basically means that whenever translations are available in the database, ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/globalization-of-views-done/ I just updated some details about one of the categories of my blog, and strangely all posts (four) under that category got relisted in Planet Fedora. Timestamps of these 4 posts according to my blog are as it is since they were created. There must be some minor problem with ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/something-is-going-wrong/ All these days i was continuously working setting up the infrastructure ready, doing custom setups and testing things for the i18n of openstreetmap, more precisely setting up internationalization in rails which will comprise a major chunk of my gsoc project. I started off by setting up an osm local install on ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/update-101-the-magic-has-begun/ Yesterday, as an interesting twist of events my Google SoC proposal for OSM was accepted. Its' about "Internationalization setup of osm web pages and map tiles". Thanks to my mentor Mikel Maron and the entire OSM community. Its' going to be a rocking summer :) Internationalization of openstreetmap have diverse aspects ... http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/i18n-in-openstreetmap/