Transifex

How do you setup Transifex? Here is all you need to know to setup Transifex: http://help.transifex.net/server/install.html http://fosswithme.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/setup-transifex-in-virtualenv/ is another good write-up on how to setup and run Transifex in virtualenv. So, I’d be building on top of that to show you how to start testing Transifex using django-nose. What packages will you need? django-nose, nose, nose-exclude, coverage You can install the above packages using pip install <package_name> Configure Transifex settings to enable django-nose Test Runner ...

What is Django-addons? A Django app used to add true plug-n-play functionality to your own Django applications and projects. Django-addons is brought to you by Indifex, the company behind Transifex. Django-addons is a bunch of code that makes writing addon/plugins for your Django project much easier. Add django-addons to your Django project and you can drop all the addons to ‘/addons’ directory. How to install Django-addons? You can install the latest version of django-addons running pip install django-addons or easy_install django-addons ...

Lately, I have been working on a bunch of exciting new stuffs for Transifex. I have worked on a tag-cloud implementation which not only shows the popular tags, but also shows tags related to a tag selected by the user. It is pretty useful. It directs the user to select more relevant tags. The tag cloud is refreshed each time the user makes a selection to show the related tags. ...

Lotte is the component of Transifex providing the web UI for the translators to translate online. Well, some time back, I made some changes in the Lotte code so that it has the auto-save feature on by default. It was running fine then and I was happy. Then I added the spellcheck feature in Lotte. Then the things started going not as expected. Actually, the auto-save triggers when the contents of a text area has been edited and it loses focus. The first problem I faced is that the spellcheck button did not respond on the first click, but on the second. As expected, on the first click, auto-save was triggered. But this was not the case when I clicked the Undo button. First the auto-save and then the undo function would be executed. I was not able to come up with an answer to explain this. I was tinkering with the code and then accidentally I solved the problem. I just changed the order of the buttons. Initially I had – Spellcheck button , Save Button and Undo Button. Now, I have – Save button, Spellcheck button, Undo button. Weird! You can have a look at the change at https://bitbucket.org/rtnpro/transifex/changeset/b59880cadf67 . If you have an explanation for this, please comment. ...

Last week, I have been working on fixing the existing unittests for Transifex. The Transifex codebase is constantly being updated. So, some of the previous test cases failed. Before this, I had already written a unittest or two for some of the codes that I contributed to Transifex. But I did not study the Django unittest framework deeply for that. This time, it was different. I took my time to go through the Django documentation on testing. And then I started to work on fixing the existing tests. To avoid confusion, I ran test on each component separately. Only a few were containing errors like projects, lotte, release, resources, projects, txcommon, suggestions, charts, etc. ...

Thanks to fim, the mailing and notification system is finally working in my local transifex setup. Now I can go forward with writing another patch.

For some time, I have been hanging around with django. I got some cool video tutorials on the web on django. They helped me a lot to start coding in django. At the same time, I was also going through the Transifex source code. After some time, I browsed through the tickets in trac.transifex.org and started with fixing ticket #679. I had to go through javascript, jquery, html in addition to write the patch for #679. I also wrote a custom pagination plugin for dataTables pagination for fixing the issue mentioned in ticket #679. I submitted the patch upstream for review. I hope it will be accepted. ...