Archive for June, 2009

Translation log #731

Friday, June 5th, 2009

It’s been a really long week.  I really didn’t have much time to relax all week.  So, when I got out of work this evening, it felt really, really great.  But there’s not much time to just lay back to relax.  Now I get to play a family man.

Every other weekend, I make a 3.5 hour drive to pick up my daughter, and spend a weekend with her.  So that’s what I did straight after work today.  That was a really long drive after the long week.  At least that’s done for now.  We got home safe, and we’re going to have some fun.

So, my own personal time will be very limited this weekend.  It’s not a bad thing for me.  It’s a bad thing for the rest of the Frostii team :p .  But hey, at least I turned in another translation in.  Ippo episode 22 translation is finally done.  So, the release of this episode will be a bit delayed this week.  And I haven’t even touched this week’s K-On! yet.  Nor have I had any time for Black Jack either.  Other team members are making progress on Black Jack, so hope is far from being lost.

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YMMV

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

I couldn’t do anything much this evening.  Getting home close to 10PM does that to me.  I wasn’t bar hopping.  I was working overtime again.  Unpaid.  (I’ve got to rant on that later – not the “unpaid” portion, but about why I had to work so late.) I did accomplish one thing – I purchased Japan Rail Pass in preparation for my visit to Japan.  As I will have to travel from Narita Airport to Nagoya, and back, that alone will cost me some chunk of change.  And because we have more travel plan, this rail pass will really be a good bargain, even if we spend significant amount of time just lounging at home.  Anyway.

I just found a piece of news that the release date of Release Candidate for Firefox 3.5 seem to be delayed “again.” Compare that to the impressive Release Candidate release of NetBeans that I mentioned yesterday.  This makes me apprecaite me even more how good of a job that the NetBeans project team did.  We can’t compare two projects side by side.   Different audience, different platform, different project size, etc…  But I’m sure both teams have some kind of release schedule.  But can you imagine how hard it is to meet such deadline?  Another example—when was the last time you saw Microsoft Windows being released on time compared to their initial predicted release date?  Then compare that with Ubuntu, who make their releases every six months, on the dot.  Where is that difference coming from?  Granted, Ubuntu team is mostly packaging a punch of software made by other peoplo, while Microsoft is actually writing their own code.  But still, the difference is huge.  I’m sure every major software projects have their project plans.  But keeping up with the project?  Is it really “your milage may vary” thing?

Now, a completely another topic.

I’m a lazy man.  I suffer from that fact from time to time.  When I do laundry, I’m often too lazy to check every pockets of every clothes I’m washing.  More than several times, I found my thumb drives at the bottom of the laundry machine after the wash cycle.  I’ve been damn lucky so far that all of them continued to work after they’ve been washed like that.  Then, one day almost three months ago, I found my iPod nano in the laundry machine.  Now, that was painful.  No, it didn’t work.  Then, not two weeks later, I saw a story of another man who washed his iPod Touch.  That’s got to hurt really bad.  Apparently his iPod didn’t recover either.  He bit his lip and paid to get his iPod repaired.  I bit my lip and decided to live without my iPod.  For some strange reason, I decided to plug my dead iPod again.  No, actually, my iPod.  Not dead.  Yes! It’s still alive!  So.  These tiny portable electronic device may survive laundry cycles.  But your milage may really vary.

Now I need to stop being so lazy.  Sing with me, will ya?  ♪~Please don’t say you are lazy~♪

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NetBeans 6.7 RC1 posted

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

I’ve been searching for the ultimate code editor for quite a few years now.  Ever since I’ve seen the syntax highlighting feature of Borland Pascal way back in 1996, I’ve been hooked to the good programming editor.  Couple of years after that, I also played around with Visual Basic 5.  That IDE has code completion—something else that I thought is heaven-sent.

Most of the time, I’ve been more hooked with good syntax highlighting feature than any other features, such as debugger, code completion, etc.  For a long time, I favored light-weight programs.  (For a long time, I was pretty poor, never could afford the fast PC, thus ended up hating bloated software and Java-based software.)  I’ve stuck with TextPad for really long time.  I’ve also liked VIM almost as long. (But not GVim, for some reason.)  I really liked UltraEdit for a while.  SciTE is one of my newer favorites.  Last year, I took a Java class at local community college.  There, I learned how to use Eclipse for good.  I knew Eclipse was good, but it was only last year that I finally get myself play seriously with it.  Indeed, it was good.  Actually, being a PHP programmer, I also played around with Aptana Studio for a while.  It was Eclipse based.  And they really did a lot of cool stuff with it.  For a period of time, I was really trying to push myself to use Eclipse with PDT, Aptana, and some other plugins.  (And I still use Eclipse.  But only for Perl, using EPIC.  EPIC actually is really cool, especially with Perl critic.)

Now.  To the meat of this post.

My latest love is NetBeans 6.7.  The PHP feature in NetBeans is pretty new.  It was only introduced last year, with the release of version 6.1.  It wasn’t very impressive yet.  6.5 made it really good.  But when I started checking out the latest nightly builds earlier this year, that’s when I realized its potential.  This thing is cooking!  And the CSS and JavaScript editors are also awesome.

The bad part about following the latest release so closely, while watching their development plan, was that they let me down by falling behind the target release date on some of the mile stones and betas.  I think the beta version was late by almost two weeks.  So I was expecting that the first RC would be late as well.  Well, what do you know!  They are back on the initial schedule!  Hot damn!  Either they have some super-skilled project manager, or someone was working 24/7 for two weeks straight.  They really did a good job.

So, after seeing this release, I was so excited and made some modifications to this site.  It’s all minor changes.  But I think the changes to the comment section should be noticeable.

I’m not done searching yet though.  As of now, I still use TextPad, SciTE, Eclipse, and NetBeans almost daily.  TextPad and SciTE also come in handy for fansubbing work as well.  Dream Weaver also come in handy from time to time.  But I’ve yet to see the ultimate IDE that satisfy all of my need for Perl, PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.  I’m not asking much, am I?

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