December 2009
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Coming up in 2010
Web Translate It is now on feature freeze. What I am currently working on right now is too big to be finished before the Christmas break. So that’s it for 2009!
What’s coming up next?
In the near future (January 2010), I will focus on enhancing existing feature. The stats and the API will be updated.
Stats
The new stats will be able to count strings, words, and keep a daily history. You will...
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Web Translate It survey result
If you haven’t had a chance yet, please take the survey. It’s always good to get your voice heard, and I always consider all of your suggestions.
The results have been incredibly useful. Thank you everyone!
Appreciation Rating
Everyone who took the survey think Web Translate It’s service and support is good: 100% of you would recommend it. This is fantastic, I am glad you appreciate it, and...
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Week-end project: public language and territory...
Web Translate It has a rather large database of languages, territories and scripts that is used internally.
It is used to display language lists, or for the importers to figure out the plural forms. I thought some of this data could be interesting and valuable to other people.
This week-end I decided to expose this data to everyone. Here you go:
Language database
Territory database
It is...
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Changes on the free trial
I am progressively refining Web Translate It’s plans. The first step to that process is that effective immediately, new subscriptions will now offer a 10-day free trial. This is less than before, as it used to be a 30-day free trial.
This only affects new accounts. If you are currently on free trial, nothing changes: you will get all of the 30-day trial as promised.
Why?
Because offering 30...
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New in Web Translate It: Hide Strings
Quite often when translating a project, some strings added to the language file are not meant to be translated. Letting the translators know that these strings are not to translate is complicated. What about just removing them from the interface?
Managers now have the ability to hide these strings directly from Web Translate It’s interface.
To hide a string, it’s easy: from the translation...
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Holiday Season
Atelier Convivialité’s technical support will close for christmas holiday from the 19th until the 27th of December.
Obviously, Web Translate It’s service will be open as usual, there’s no such thing as website holiday :)
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Server migration completed
Following the server saga, the server migration worked without encountering any issues. Web Translate It’s service has been down for merely 20 minutes.
You should be properly directed to the new server by browsing https://webtranslateit.com. If you are not, you should see this page which will give you detailed instructions to flush your DNS cache.
You will notice a speed boost when loading...
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Maintenance window on Saturday 9AM-11AM GMT
On Saturday the 5th of December between 9AM and 11AM will be a maintenance window on both Web Translate It and on the beta version of Web Translate It.
During these two hours the website will be inaccessible as I will migrate the database and the application to a new server. The API will be accessible during the maintenance so it won’t impact your website.
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Downtime post-mortem: Tuesday 1st December
Yesterday has been the busiest day of Web Translate It’s history. We completely outreached the number of visits and pages viewed. Many new visitors have been trying Web Translate It’s demo which resulted in a fairly high, although sustainable server load.
Around 5AM GMT the cron job that back up our database started. This backup is usually done in less than 5 minutes. Due to the high server load...