Verbatim is the second project
I've been the lead on recently where the requirements included people committing
to SVN as themselves via the application. At
first glance this means storing the authentication tokens of the user in plain
text since we'll need to pass them along to SVN whenever they commit. I wasn't
happy with that solution so after a bit of thinking we came up with an idea that
leaves everything encrypted and doesn't cache any credentials. It involved
minimal code in Verbatim and minor work on the SVN server.
I'm upgrading some code I wrote to talk to a new version of the Citrix
NetScaler's API. The
NetScaler's manuals (that's right, plural) weigh in at a combined 1114 pages so
documentation isn't a problem and their implementation is a breeze using WSDL over SOAP. However, some of the core changes left me
scratching my head. Case in point:
I'll be in Morocco at the end of next week and noticed there wasn't a single
Mozilla Party in the country! There were
over 36,000 download
pledges though, so there must be Firefox supporters somewhere. :)
Adding context to the .po files on AMO has been one of our challenges since
we started localizing the site. The solution we decided to use, place
holder strings, is non-standard and can be difficult to use for someone that
is used to how gettext normally works.