Advogato blog for rzyjontko

24 Feb 2007

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:28:48 GMT

Open-Tran.eu

A week ago I have created a service for open source software translators that offers an easy access to the already existing translations. You can look up a phrase in English, submit a whole .po file to the server or even query it via XMLRPC protocol. Currently, the service supports the following 12 languages:

Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any comments, suggestions, feature requests or bug reports.

18 Oct 2005

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:12:22 GMT

20 Sep 2005

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:23:24 GMT

Browse Happy!

Once again, short before the deadline, we are repeating the action of promoting modern browsers. To do it, you only need to put this link somewhere on your site:

MSNBetter ThanGoogle

28 Jun 2005

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:18:06 GMT

Browse Happy!

Recently a company called Search Engine Optimization started a positioning contest. A top hit for the phrase "MSNBetter ThanGoogle" in the polish Google site on the October 1 will be the winner.

One guy thought that it is a great opportunity to promote the Browse Happy site which encourages people to use other browsers than Internet Explorer. To do so you only need to put the link to this page just like I do it below:

MSNBetter ThanGoogle

Have fun!

28 Mar 2004

Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:08:31 GMT

Properties

I have just implemented properties mechanism. We need some examples to see how it works. Recently I posted few messages to mailing lists from wrong mail account, and they have been bounced. This is how property solves my issue:

    property address.email (to) {
        '@lists.sourceforge.net' => "my_addr@poczta.fm"
        ''                       => "my_addr@other.host"
    }

What I wanted to say, is that my email address depends on who I am writing to. But how is it going to be used? Each time you start composing a new message elmo opens a template, and replaces properties (indicated by $) with their actual values. Let's take a look at default template:

    From: "$address.name" <$address.email>
    To: $to
    Subject: $subject
    
    $quote
    $=$mail.quoted
    $signature

In the first example we defined a property address.name, which will be replaced by an actual value depending on property to.

Now let's go to something more complicated. Let's redefine a quote to be different for different groups of people. In polish we need a different quotation depending on people's sex, so I made something like this:

    property quote (action
                    mail.from.abook
                    mail.from.foreign 
                    mail.from.sex
                    mail.from.name){
      'reply' 'yes' 'no' 'F' => "%e napisała:"
      'reply' 'yes' 'no' 'M' => "%e napisał:"
      'reply'                => "%e wrote:"
      ''                     => ""
    }

The quote property depends on 5 other properties. It depends on action, (which may be new, forward or reply), and some flags for author of the message we are replying. The magic happens in the resulting string, where I use %e. As you can expect: an actual value of mail.from.name property will be used. All %x tokens will be replaced by arguments values (%a is first, %b - second, and so on).

There is one more thing you could notice - a special token $=. You may place it, where you'd like to have a cursor placed in your editor. Elmo counts offset, line, and column of this token in resulting file, and you may use them in your editor variable, e.g.:

    set editor "emacsclient +%l %f"

11 Mar 2004

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:03:00 GMT

New = stable

Finally I have released next stable version of elmo! I thought it could be done yesterday, but have found few bugs, yesterday night (e.g. body of function attach_save_all function was commented). By the way I have extended a tutorial, and made few improvements.

Unfortunately release system at freshmeat doesn't allow one to change branches names that easy, as one could expect. Wasn't it obvious for these guys, that unstable becomes stable once?

9 Mar 2004

Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:05:04 GMT

Good day

Today is my day. I have implemented few important features in elmo. Digital signatures are now verified with GnuPG, but the most important: I have finally implemented interactive search using shift-and algorithm. It doesn't look very good yet, but it works, and works well.

8 Mar 2004

Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:49:56 GMT

OpenSSL support!

Finally I have made it. The library itself is very handy, but it lacks good documentation. I have made few other improvements including better attachments indication, more intuitive mime types, and handlers definition, and few bugfixes.

22 Feb 2004

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:24:47 GMT

GnuPG support!

Finally I have made it! I had to change lots of code, but it really works! I am so proud of me...

Ok... but being honest... right now elmo is only able to decrypt messages (because it was the easiest part). Encrypting seems easy too, but signature verification (and signing) will be much, much harder.

15 Feb 2004

Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:06:24 GMT

Back to elmo

After so many hours spent on fixing elmo, I was so tired that I had to leave it for some time, and do something else. After playing with other projects I got back to elmo today.

I decided not to rewrite pop3 support. I will fix it, and one day I will add imap support.

I have already commited few changes. These are all minor fixes: one segfault, one improvement in box_selection (it now caches box sizes), and few other things I have done earlier but had no time to commit them.

Now I'm working on gpg support! Trying to run gpg was a bad idea. I have found gpgme library, and it seems pretty nice. If what they write in the documentation is true, then I will have not much work. Now I'm going to play around with the library. Unfortunately it lacks some simple examples.