Rego’s Everyday Life

gl_transstat: translate pages and records in an easy way on TYPO3

gl_transstat is a great TYPO3 extension developed by my workmate Diego that allows create translations of pages and records on TYPO3 very easily and keep track of translation status of them.

This extension is very useful for multilanguage websites improving work efficiency in tasks related with internationalization and localization.

Last days I’ve been working on this extension, and I’ve done some changes to add new features that make this extension more powerful. The main modifications are:

• Added the possibility to create translations for more than one page or record at the same time.
• Support to translate records of any table.
• Use generic configuration variables.

You can download the last release 1.2.2 directly from TER or if you like you can download the source code from the SVN repository:
svn checkout https://forxa.mancomun.org/svn/gltransstat

MyTime: free software to improve time management

This week we’ve released MyTime project, this project try to be a system to monitoring your time while you’re using a computer, providing a graphical user interface that generates different kind of charts with information about what applications you use in your computer.

Moreover in the following phases we’re going to try to integrate this project with Online Desktop trying to store information about application use remotely so that you can query information about your time everywhere.

The project is been developed by some people from Igalia engineering group: Antonio, Diego, Quique, Iván, Chema, Loren, Xavi and me.

Among other technologies MyTime uses:

• GTK+ and Glade for the graphical interface.
• GObject for data server and model logic implementation.
• D-Bus usage for communication between components.
• SQLite database system for local data management.

You can read more information about the project in its home page at Igalia community. Furthermore the project has its own page at SourceForge.net where you can find mailing lists, forums, and SVN repository of the project.

There’re a lot of things todo, however feel free to test MyTime and give us your feedback, we’ll be very happy.

We’ll keep you informed of news in this project.

FORMidable: Starting Collaboration

This week I’ve started my collaboration with FORMidable, a TYPO3 extension.

If you develop TYPO3 extensions, specially frontend forms, you should test the extension called Ameos FORMidable (ameos_formidable), with this extension you can develop TYPO3 extensions very fast. After more than one year developing TYPO3 applications, I think that FORMidable is an essential TYPO3 extension; I’ve fallen in love with it.

Furthermore FORMidable actually is a free software project, at project’s homepage there’re links to documentation, SVN, a lot of examples, and mailing list. In this list you can ask, suggest, send patches, etc. and somebody from FORMidable community is going to try to help you, besides FORMidable authors accept patches to improve FORMidable or fix some bugs; I’ve sent several patches and they’ve added my modifications to project.

This post has only the purpose to announce that I’ve published my first article at FORMidable web page.

Finally I’d like to thank to FORMidable development team, specially to Jerome Schneider, for give me the opportunity to collaborate in this great project and for accept my ideas and patches trying to improve FORMidable.

Testing Online Desktop on Hardy Heron: Quick Guide

I’ve been testing Online Desktop the last days on an Ubuntu distribution.

I’ve followed the instructions from OnlineDesktop/Jhbuild, but with these instructions you need to compile 101 modules, it’s quite slow, moreover you can find some problems in different modules that aren’t stables. I need to upgrade to Hardy Heron 8.04 to can finish my compilation.

However, thanks to Dape, I’ve found another solution to test Online Desktop faster only compiling 6 modules: hippo-canvas, local-export-daemon, desktop-data-model, online-desktop, bigboard and mugshot-client.
Maybe this isn’t the best way to test Online Desktop, but it’s very quickly for a simple test.

Next I’m going to relate instructions needed to test Online Desktop on an Ubuntu Hardy Heron distribution.

Continue reading Testing Online Desktop on Hardy Heron: Quick Guide…

O Galego en TYPO3 III

TYPO3 4.2 foi lanzado onte, o que implica que o galego xa está soportado no core de TYPO3.

Dende este momento calquera que se descargue a versión actual de TYPO3 poderá ter un sitio web funcionando en galego coma un idioma máis.

Se queremos ter o backend de TYPO3 en galego tan só temos que seguir os seguintes pasos:

• Acceder ó módulo Ext Manager (Adm. de Extensións)
• Seleccionar a opción Translation handling
• Seleccionar o idioma Galician - [Galician]
• Premer en Save selection
• Premer en Update from repository

Unha vez feito isto poderíamos escoller o galego como idioma de backend:

• Ir ó módulo User settings (Configuración)
• Seleccionar Galcian - [Galician] no campo Language (Lingua)
• Premer en Save configuration (Gardar configuración)

Ademáis está dispoñible a extensión Static Info Tables (gl) - static_info_tables_gl, que proporciona a tradución ó galego das táboas estáticas de TYPO3.

Para rematar quero lembrar que, como xa sabedes, o galego ten unha conta no servidor de traducións de TYPO3, polo que calquera colaboración para seguir coa tradución de TYPO3 ó galego será benvida.

Galician in TYPO3 III

TYPO3 4.2 was released yesterday, it means that Galician is already supported inside TYPO3 core.

Since this moment everyone that download TYPO3 current version may have a website working in Galician as a language more.

If we want to have TYPO3 backend in Galician just have to follow next steps:

• Access to Ext Manager module
• Select option Translation handling
• Select language Galician - [Galician]
• Click on Save selection
• Click on Update from repository

Then we may choose select Galician as backend language:

• Go to User settings module
• Select Galcian - [Galician] on field Language
• Click on Save configuration

Moreover it’s available the extension Static Info Tables (gl) - static_info_tables_gl, that provides Galician translation for TYPO3 static tables.

Finally I’d like to remerber that, as you know, Galician language has an account at TYPO3 translation server, so that any collaboration to follow with TYPO3 translation to Galician will be welcome.

TYPO3 Extensions Configuration

This post try to explain how to develop TYPO3 extensions as flexible as possible, TYPO3 provides us with several mechanism to do it. Furthermore I’m going to show a very useful function to read every possible configuration variable on a TYPO3 extension.

There is different ways to configure a TYPO3 extension (from more general to more concrete), and I’m going to explain how to use them:

• 1. Generic Variables (ext_conf_template.txt)
• 2. TYPO3_CONF_VARS
• 3. Plugin Configuration
  • a) TypoScript
  • b) FlexForms

Continue reading TYPO3 Extensions Configuration…

O Galego en TYPO3 II

Xa temos unha conta no servidor de traducións de TYPO3 para a lingua galega, e xa están subidas as traducións que fixeramos con anterioridade. Ademais creamos unha páxina no wiki de TYPO3 para a coordinación do equipo de tradución.

A partir de agora (cando se arranxe a conexión entre o servidor de traducións e typo3.org), calquera podería baixarse a tradución do galego dende a opción “Translation handling” da ferramenta “Extension Manager” en TYPO3.

Con isto conseguimos o obxectivo inicial do proxecto “Tradución ó galego do backend de TYPO3“, este proxecto quedaría reemplazado polo traballo do equipo de tradución ó galego en TYPO3.

Estamos abertos a recibir axuda para continuar, mellorar, manter, correxir, … a tradución de TYPO3 ó galego.

Galician in TYPO3 II

We already have an account into TYPO3 Translation Server for Galician language, and we’ve already uploaded translations that we’ve done previously. Moreover we’ve created a page into TYPO3 Wiki to translation team coordination.

From now (when synchronization between Translation Server and typo3.org works) anyone could download Galician translation from “Translation handling” option on “Extension Manager” tool into TYPO3.

With this we’ve achieved the main goal of project “TYPO3 Backend Galician Translation“, this project would be replaced for Galician Translation Team work in TYPO3.

We’re ready to get help to continue, improve, support, correct, … TYPO3 Galician translation.

Developing TYPO3 Extensions (sg_showdoku)

Reading TYPO3 Wiki I’ve found the page What is an extension?, it talks about 3 useful extensions when you are developing:

• Extension Kickstarter (kickstarter)
• Extension Developement Evaluation (extdeveval)
• Show Typo3 Info (sg_showdoku)

I didn’t know sg_showdoku yet, this is a great extension that provide a plugin to insert in a page and it shows all the content of variable $GLOBALS, moreover you can browse through the content in a very handy way.

A screenshot: