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What has changed in Rails this year?

January 1, 2025 by Michael G

I wrote a summary of what has changed in the framework this year.

www-zh-cn @ Savannah: Summary 2024

January 1, 2025 by Michael G

Dear GNU CTT:

Thank you for your contribution and effort.

I am very proud of the performance in 2024 for this team.

Here is summary from GNU translation team for 2024.

Dear GNU translators!

2024 repeated the general traits of 2023: most active teams kept doing

a good job updating the translations, and a few new translations were

made. Currently, the total amount of translations is over 3350.

General Statistics

Most new translations were made by the Chinese (zh-cn) team this year;

then the Polish and French teams follow. The Turkish team, although

it published no new translations this year, made a notable progress

in terms of keeping its translation up-to-date.

The table below shows the number and size of newly translated

articles in important directories and typical number of outdated

GNUNified translations throughout the year.

+-team–+—–new—–+–outdated–+

| de   | 1 (9.7Ki) * | 124 (61%) |

+——-+————-+————+

| es   | 1 ( 5.2Ki) | 0.5 (0.2%) |

+——-+————-+————+

| fr   | 4 ( 42.0Ki) | 0.5 (0.1%) |

+——-+————-+————+

| ja   | 2 ( 9.9Ki) | 48 ( 34%) |

+——-+————-+————+

| pl   | 6 ( 85.4Ki) | 54 ( 37%) |

+——-+————-+————+

| ru   | 2 ( 20.7Ki) | 0.3 (0.1%) |

+——-+————-+————+

| sq   | 2 ( 17.1Ki) | 2.3 (2.9%) |

+——-+————-+————+

| tr   | 0 ( 0.0Ki) | 0.1 (0.1%) |

+——-+————-+————+

| zh-cn | 23 ( 543Ki) |     0 &    |

+——-+————-+————+

+——-+————-+

| total | 39 ( 723Ki) |

+——-+————-+

I wish you all a freer, healthier, and more peaceful 2025.

Happy hacking

wxie

The Windows CE Developer’s Kit from 1999

January 1, 2025 by Michael G

Rare, hard to come by, but now available on the Internet Archive: the complete book set for the Windows CE Developer’s Kit from 1999. It contains all the separate books in their full glory, so if you ever wanted to write either a Windows CE application or driver for Windows CE 2.0, here’s all the information you’ll ever need. The Microsoft Windows CE Developer’s Kit provides all the information you need to write applications for devices based on the Microsofte Windowso CE operating system. ↫ Windows CE Developer’s Kit The Microsoft Windows CE Programmer’s Guide details the architecture of the operating system, how to write applications, how to implement synchronisation with a PC, and much more that pertains to developing applications. The Microsoft Windows CE User Interface Services Guide can be seen as an important addition to the Programmer’s Guide, as it details everything related to creating a GUI and how to handle various input methods. Going a few steps deeper, and we arrive at the Microsoft Windows CE Communications Guide, which, as the name implies, tells you all you need to know about infrared connections, telephony, networking and internet connections, and related matter. Finally, we arrive at the Microsoft Windows CE Device Driver Kit, which, as the name implies, is for those of us interested in writing device drivers for Windows CE, something that will surely be of great importance in the future, since Windows CE is sure to dominate our mobile life. To get started, you do need to have Microsoft Visual C++ version 6.0 and the Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ version 6.0 up and running, since all code samples in the Programmer’s Guide are developed with it, but I’m sure you already have this taken care of – why would you be developing for any other platforms, am I right?