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DSC 4.3.1 deployed
Docs.sun.com release 4.3.1 has been deployed about 3 weeks ago. It took me some time to test the 3 newly support languages: Hungarian, Dutch and Polish.
See the key deliverables for this release:
1) Support publications and display for Hungarian, Dutch and Polish books.
2) Publication of Rich Media contents.
3) Return of the Search within Collection function.
4) Added API method to return product nodes & UUIDs for a specified
collection or book.
5) Publication CLI to ask for confirmation when doing assignments to
products already have contents to ensure no accidental overwritten of
existing assignments.
6) Add product names to RSS feed links to make it clear to users what
product feeds they are selecting.
Posted at 02:30PM Apr 21, 2009 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[0]
Localized docs.sun.com
Last Dec. DSC had Language selection controls and available on any page. But the localized content was not ready at that time, e.g.the Simplified Chinese page will show Traditional Chinese. Later, all selections went to English page. Today I checked the page and found all selections work very well. It provide us more friendly interface when we searching document on it. Check it out.
Posted at 05:59PM Feb 25, 2009 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[0]
All about dash
摘自维基百科，更多请参阅此处
| - |
glyph | Unicode |
HTML |
HTML/XML |
| hyphen | ‐ | U+2010 (8208) | none | ‐ or ‐ |
| figure dash |
‒ | U+2012 (8210) |
none | ‒ or ‒ |
| en dash |
– | U+2013 (8211) | – | – or – |
| em dash |
— | U+2014 (8212) |
&mdash | — or — |
| horizontal bar | ― | U+2015 (8213) | none | ― or ― |
| swung dash |
 |
U+2053 (8275) |
none | ⁓ or ⁓ |
Posted at 07:32PM Oct 21, 2008 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[0]
Firefox download day
In the past 2 years, I have participated 2 times Firefox test day in Sun Microsystems Beijing ERI site for Firefox 2 and Firefox 3. It's really an different experience from my daily work. Working with engineers in Mozilla team around the world especial community lead in Europe, to discuss test cases and bugs. Tracking the bug ticket and verify the bug fix. I was fortunate to won 1 time Top bug finder at test day.(with prize :-) ) Besides standard test cases, we Asian Globalization Center (AGC) team also provided CCK locales test for this event. Fortunately (again), Yugo was won another Top bug finder by test FF in Korean locale.
Now, it's time to harvest. Don't hesitate to try it and let us know your opinion.
Just keep in mind:
It's never late to participate in the community;
It's always easy to participate in the community.
Posted at 12:19AM Jun 03, 2008 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[6]
各取所需：Firefox extensions
给大家分享三个 Firefox 的插件，一个实用，一个添彩儿，一个绝对娱乐。
Firefox Showcase [下载]
实用：显示所有打开窗口和标签页的缩略图
特别适合 Project Manager 管理项目，需要同时打开很多页面而且不断切换。安装完毕会在查看菜单下添加一个 Showcase 子菜单。个性化定制很丰富，但有点复杂。默认配置即可。
ColorfulTabs [下载]
美观：随机给每个 Tab 分配不同的颜色
让浏览器不在永远灰、白、蓝。
All-in-One Gestures [下载]
娱乐：定制命令到鼠标手势
拿起鼠标随便画画就能执行操作命令。例如，按下鼠标右键并向左拖动鼠标则意味着“后退”命令。记得几年前看过一个美国“风投”的节目里有过类似的创意。个人觉得它的卖点不应该是提高效率而应该是开发智力。装上插件，换到左手鼠标模式，让我们一起开发右脑吧！
Posted at 12:54AM Apr 11, 2008 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[1]
What's OLT? What's XLIFF?
For those who want to join Open Source Translation Projects.
The content are copied from OLT project website. Made some minor changes.
- 1. What's OLT and used for?
OLT - Open Language Tools
The OLT are a set of translation tools that aim to make the task of translating software and documentation easier. Initially, they comprise of a full-featured XLIFF Translation Editor and a set of XLIFF file-filters for a number of documentation and software file formats. They are based around common industry standards such as XLIFF and TMX and are implemented in Java.
- 2. What are the XLIFF and TMX ?
XLIFF - XML Localisation Interchange File Format
TMX - Translation Memory eXchange
XLIFF and TMX are localisation industry-standard file formats used during the translation process.
XLIFF is a container-format expressed in XML that allows us to abstract translatable from non-translatable content from a source file format, and track the various pieces of metadata that are produced during the translation process (eg. word count, notes to translators, translation review status, etc.) Once a file has been converted to XLIFF, it can be processed by any tool that understands the XLIFF format (rather than each tool needing to be customised to support the original file type).
TMX is related to XLIFF, but instead of being a container format that contains the state of a file in translation, it's a format that was designed for the interchange of completed translations, (sometimes called translation memory data) between tools. You could think of a TMX file being the final representation of a set of translated material that can then be poured into a database for future reuse.
The Open Language Tools project includes a way to convert XLIFF files that contain completed and reviewed translations into TMX files.
- 3. What file formats do OLT support ?
Documentation file types
* HTML
* Docbook SGML
* JSP
* XML (generic - needs a configuration file for each XML type)
* OpenOffice.org : sxw, sxc, sxi
* Plain text
Software file types
* PO/POT (gettext)
* Msg/tmsg (catgets)
* Java .properties
* Java ResourceBundle
* Mozilla .DTD resource files
- 4. What is the XLIFF Translation Editor ?
- 5. What are the XLIFF filters ?
The XLIFF filters are a set of programs/libraries that can convert several different source file formats to XLIFF. See more.
- 6. What platforms do the OLT run on ?
The Open Language Tools are developed and used on a mixture of platforms including Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
- 7. Where can I get the OLT ?
https://open-language-tools.dev.java.net/
Posted at 05:48PM Feb 27, 2008 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[0]
小广告两则
There will be 2 events in ChongQing and ChengDu this week. We are waiting for your participation.
PS: Serena Xiao will talk about Open Source Translation Projects and Tools : OLT (Open Language Tools)
Posted at 04:06PM Feb 26, 2008 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[0]
Where to get a free Solaris DVD?
My job position have a lot of opportunities to co-work with interns. When we discussed learning Solaris in the universities. They always said they do very interest in Solaris and other Sun technologies. But it's not easy to find Solaris to install on their PC. Solaris is a free and cool OS but download the whole DVD from internet, you know the edu network.
A-ha, it's really an unexcepted reason. Sun held many activities, conferences in the past few years and delivered the Solaris DVD during the meeting. But is it enough? For most of students in the universities they just want to get a DVD more easier. It is the time now.
A website to learn Unix technologies. Just register and leave your contact information, the administrator will send you a latest SXDE (Solaris Express Developer Edition) DVD without any pay. This activity started from Jan 23 and will be ended on Mar 31. Don't hesitate, just go and get it.
Posted at 07:30PM Feb 21, 2008 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[0]
Work from home news from Bejing gov.
Sina.com, on Jan 20, reported that to solve the traffic jam problem during rush hour, Beijing government will try to switch the Open/Close time for big commercial departments and some of shopping malls, and will implement the flextime for science academies and IT companies. Especially encourage Work From Home.
Looks familiar?
Of course, we are doing this way now. I don't know when Sun started the flextime, I only know to work flexible is one of Sun's culture. And started from 2 years ago, Sun fully supported employees in Beijing to work from home. We can remotely operate our machines and servers in lab or office, we can easy find workmates by phone or Instant Messenger client wherever they are. Cool, isn't it? But not just this.
One of my workmate living at TongZhou. He spent at least 4 hours per day on his way to office and back to home. We always say Beijing subway corporation should award him a medal to praise his support to Beijing subway. He took the BaTong line near his home and -> line No.1 -> line No.2 -> line No.13. 6:00 pm, he took them again with opposite order. Now, he can work from home. He can save the money, save the energy, and the most important, he own 4 additional hours for himself for each day.
Besides that, we decrease the hours that drive at rush hour. Actually we won't drive for most of days in a week. It's hard to say how much improvement to Beijing's traffic and air which our way made, but as a Chinese saying "Don't fail to do good even if it's small."
Start now，not too late。
Posted at 09:03PM Jan 20, 2008 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[1]
The docs.sun.com BLOG
After more and more community, wiki page and personal blogs live on the internet, to discussing the Sun products and technology, we do believe this is the win-win situation for both Sun and our partner. Now blog for docs.sun.com is ready! http://blogs.sun.com/dsc
What this blog is: A place to find out the latest news and work going on to improve docs.sun.com. It's a place for you to let us know what you think of docs.sun.com and where you'd like to see it go in the future.
What this blog is not: A place to post site feedback reporting bugs or broken links, nor questions or problems about specific documents. To do this, please go to our Send Comments page.
Posted at 11:50PM Nov 30, 2007 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[1]
New PDF download server for docs.sun.com
If you happened to download pdf book from docs.sun.com these days, you may find you can't use FTP protocol as before. Yes, new server dlc.sun.com replaced original one docs-pdf.sun.com to server all pdf on docs.sun.com and no longer support FTP download.
All your bookmarks to docs-pdf.sun will automatically redirect to dlc.sun.
Posted at 05:49PM Oct 25, 2007 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[3]
Thunderbird Add-ons that I am using.
To share with you what Add-ons that I am using on my Thunderbird client.
Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export 1.3.6
Re-use your message filters in different machines without setup them one by one every time.
Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate) 0.1.5
Search and remove messages which are duplicate of other messages in your mail folders.
spell-checking when you write an email.
An integrated calendar for Thunderbird. - Recommendation
Posted at 10:39AM Oct 23, 2007 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[2]
Can-Do attitude
See how Alonso and Hamilton show their Can-Do attitude. Quite funny!
Posted at 05:00PM Oct 11, 2007 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[0]
2 news about docs.sun.com
docs.sun.com 4.2.4 was released on Sep 28. In this release, a few bugs have been fixed and Fast Search Indexing feature has been implemented. That means you can get the latest books faster than before by searching function.
Oct 1st, the Sun Hardware Documentation Site "SunDocs" consolidation with docs.sun.com was complete. From now on, you can find all software & hardware documentations at single site: docs.sun.com.
Posted at 05:02PM Oct 08, 2007 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[1]
To view Asian characters from Xmanager
You may need to login Solaris from home, and also need remote Solaris desktop with Asian (JKCC) characters displayed like me who is working at Globalization team. Xmanager is a good choice.
The default Xmanager install package may not include all fonts that you need especially for Asian languages. You need to download the font package, install and set the font path for your language.
Here is a step by step example:
1. Go to Xmanager website to download the font package.
2. Install it to where your Xmanager located. (C:\Program Files\NetSarang\Xmanager2\Fonts)
3. Open Xconfig, and add your language to each config file from "Properties" -> "Font".
That's it.
Posted at 06:05PM Sep 22, 2007 by Yu Aaron Cheng in Sun | Comments[0]
