Chris Norton

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The last few months I have been keen to move my existing version control activities over to Bazaar, away from Subversion. Today that desire was rather firmly set in stone when I discovered that Bazaar doesn’t create a .bzr directory under every subdirectory in the tree like Subversion does with its .svn directories. This makes things so much easier to work with when you have to, say, upgrade your version of WordPress and you need to use FTP to transfer the files. Clearly you don’t want to transfer your VCS data as well so previously I had resorted to creating a sync script that disregarded the unwanted directories. So, thank you Bazaar for making my life that little bit easier!

A few quick links for some retro-style gaming: OpenTyrian, an SDL port of the classic Tyrian game, and ProtoRPG, a web-based RPG using the Prototype and Script.aculo.us.

Super Mario in 14kB Javascript. Very impressive little browser game that recreates some of the first Super Mario game.

I am having some issues with the Magento translation tool – mostly that it doesn’t allow for version 1.0 translations – so I am posting this unofficial translation here. It’s fairly complete spelling-wise and is only lacking a look over for grammatical changes and places where entirely different words are used, rather than just a spelling change. An example that springs to mind is “State/Province” possibly being changed to “State/Territory”.

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The first production version of Magento Commerce has been released. I’ll be checking through the new release later today to see if I have to make any changes to my modules – now that the software is stable I can be more confident about working on the Australian module and translation.