Date: 06/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

It would be interesting to read the final episode in the Harry Potter saga, if not for anything but the morbid curiosity of young Harry’s fate. In many ways I am happy that it ends here. I have reservations about the darkness of the latest Harry Potter books and its suitability for the young mind. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sayonara-for-harry-potter/

Date: 06/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

Cartoon Network is really sick. It will start showing the initial episodes again with “Arrival of Raditz” from 2nd July (link)! I think CN doesn’t have rights to the SSJ (Goku goes Super Saiyan) and post SSJ episodes of DBZ. I think the sane option in this case would be stop re-airing the same old [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cartoon-network-loops-dragonball-z-from-2nd-july/

Date: 06/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

I was contacted by ProjectLocker to review their new service: Subversion Analytics. I took the service through the paces using their demo account. If you are considering hosted Subversion and Subversion analytics service then this review is a must read for you. What is hosted Subversion? A service which hosts your subversion repository for a monthly fee. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/software-review-hosted-subversion-analytics-service/

Date: 06/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

This is the full matrix of translations supported by Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Gold. Notes: Green and Yellow indicates that the language combination is supported. Yellow indicates that only limited amount of text can be translated by Engine4. Red indicates lack of translation support for that combination. N/A indicates irrelevant / not applicable language combinations like English to English. Translation Matrix [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-gold-languages-supported-matrix/

Date: 06/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

This is the full matrix of translations supported by Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro. Notes: Green, Gold and Yellow indicates that the language combination is supported. Gold indicates support by Engine5 only. This supports proper translation but is sensitive to over usage. Yellow indicates that only limited amount of text can be translated by Engine4. Red indicates lack of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-languages-supported-matrix/

Date: 06/20/07     Keywords: asp

Most of us, myself excluded, aspires to be thin especially so much so that they often adopt unhealthy practices which lead to bulimia or diabulimia. Here are some safe tips from FDA which doesn’t involve consulting a doctor and can be done by you without external help. Safe Dieting Men and very active women may need up [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/4-safe-weight-loss-tips-from-fda/

Date: 06/20/07     Keywords: no keywords

Diabulimia is a new term used to describe an eating disorder that’s beginning to victimize type I diabetics. As with any other eating disorder teens are the most likely to develop it. The complication is not limited to teenagers only. Any insulin dependent diabetic can become a victim. Diabulimia is developed when a type I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diabulimia-forced-weight-loss-by-diabetics-can-kill/

Date: 06/19/07     Keywords: software, web

Stephen Glass became infamous in 1998 after being exposed for fabricating large amount of his articles culminating in the famous “Hack Heaven”, a story of a 15 year old hacker who landed a plum job in a software company after defacing their website. Stephen Glass became the subject of a movie titled - “Shattered Glass”, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-experience-with-stephen-glass-phenomenon/

Date: 06/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

In short there is none. Translator Pro / Gold uses an intelligent caching engine to cache the translated pages. However it can happily co-exist with other caching engine like wp-cache 2 or WordPress’ object cache. While such engines will not help Translator plugin in any way as it is optimally cached by design, they may [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/interaction-of-translator-pro-gold-intelligent-caching-engine-with-other-caching-engines/

Date: 06/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

I am very happy to announce the much awaited release of Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Gold for WordPress blogs. Translator Pro Gold allows translation to 32 languages with 5 translation engines and comes with load balancing capabilities targeted for popular and high volume blogs. The supported languages are German [sample], Spanish [sample], French [sample], Italian [sample], [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-gold-for-wordpress-blogs-released/

Date: 06/14/07     Keywords: google

Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 is a new release in many refreshing ways. One of the first thing you will notice is that the Translator options page have moved under Options menu. One of the nagging problems with Translator Pro for heavy users / popular blogs was that sometimes translation engines like Google banned them temporarily due to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-50-guidelines-notes-for-current-customers/

Date: 06/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

I am very happy to announce the release of Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro version 5.0. The key features in version 5.0 are: 1. New intelligent caching engine - The fully re-designed caching engine intelligently handles site changes for maximum availability of translation services and to reduce, server, network and translation engine loads. 2. Multiple engine failover support [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-50-released/

Date: 06/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

I have started tweaking the layout of this blog. I have made some changes based on my perception of aesthetics and usefulness. For example I reduced the font of headlines, removed the divider of the main content section with the sdebar to make it look spacier and changed the post titles to a different distinctive [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tweaking-blog-layout/

Date: 06/14/07     Keywords: web

Weblog tools collection has announced a WordPress plugins competition. The competition began on 1st June (2007) and will last till the end of July. We are sponsoring a copy Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro as prize for the competition to help foster quality WordPress plugin development. Here is your chance to develop a cool WordPress [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-get-free-copy-of-translator-plugin-pro/

Date: 06/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

We have designed a new caching engine for Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 & Gold 1.0. Previously we used WordPress’ Object Caching Engine (bundled with WordPress) which doesn’t work so well in resource constrained sites. Also it doesn’t serve our need to have semi-permanent cache for translated pages and provide infrastructure for Translator Pro & Gold [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/understanding-intelligent-caching-engine-in-translator-plugin-pro-gold-50/

Date: 06/13/07     Keywords: java

GCJ 1.4.2 which was forcefully bundled with Fedora Core 6 (and has been updated from their repository to the latest available version) must not be used with any enterprise product, nay for any Java project at all. I know it is being used in OpenOffice, which I think is a serious mistake. It is dangerously [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gcj-is-dangerously-buggy/

Date: 06/13/07     Keywords: jsp

I am an avid JSP / Servlets user (and fan) since its introduction. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to quickly prototype and deliver a robust application within few days (even a single day) for a client using JSP and servlets. However recently (or not so recently) I have been observing with growing concern that [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/jsp-innocence-lost-with-increased-complexity/

Date: 06/13/07     Keywords: google

Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 (& Gold) provides automatic multiple engine failover support. What does it mean to you as a WordPress blogger? First let’s understand how Translator Plugin translates your blog. We rely on multiple external translation engines like Google and Babelfish to do the actual translation. We provide multiple functionalities on top of their [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-50-multiple-engine-failover-support/

Date: 06/13/07     Keywords: no keywords

Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 allows automatic machine translation of WordPress blogs (2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x and above) to maximum of 14 languages. Any blog written in English can be automatically and in real-time translated to Spanish, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Russian, German, French, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, Norwegian (optional*) and Arabic. Translator [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seo-goldmine-translator-plugin-pro-50-supports-automatic-translation-of-wordpress-blogs-in-13-1-languages/

Date: 06/13/07     Keywords: web

Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro & Gold collects and display useful statistics on the functionality of the plugin as well as the intelligent caching engine. The statistics is available from Translator Plugin Pro Options panel in Basic tab and in Advanced -> Cache Management tab. It is also available for display on your web pages as [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-gold-statistics/