Archive for August, 2009

TaskFreak hacking: changing first day of week to Monday

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

I have two personal TaskFreak installations now: one at work and a personal one for everything else. Usually I run all my applications in English but the personal TaskFreak is in Swedish so the first thing I changed was a couple of things I didn't agree with in the Swedish translation. Then ...

Convert mailman translation to UTF-8

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Why is the Swedish translation in ISO8859-1? Sooooo 20th century! :-) Templates cd /usr/share/mailman/sv for f in *; do mv $f $f.old; iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 $f.old > $f done rm *.old Translations cd /var/lib/mailman/messages/sv/LC_MESSAGES mv mailman.po mailman.po.original iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 mailman.po.original > mailman.po msgfmt mailman.po -o mailman.mo /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_CHARSET = 'utf-8' def _(s): return s add_language('sv', ...

Hire me for my mind!

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Ward Cunningham tweeted a link to an ad for an Agile Ruby Developer at AboutUs, Inc. Out of curiosity I took a look and it sounds like a fantastic opportunity for someone! What I liked most about the job ad was the last part: We’re hiring you for your mind. Please showcase ...