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Free licenses for Mailplane 2.0—Mailplane 2.0 の無料ライセンズ
I’ve written before about Mailplane, a high-quality Gmail client with some great Mac-specific features. I’ve been happy to be associated with the project as its Japanese localizer. I recently...
View ArticleLocalizing Ubiquity: an open letter to linguists
Localizing Ubiquity: an open letter to linguists from mitcho on Vimeo. Below is a transcript of this video. Please distribute this video far and wide to anyone who may be interested. ^^ Dear linguist,...
View ArticleUbiquity in Italian
flod put up a nice blog post on thinking about Ubiquity in Italian. flod points out that what seems natural to him as a speaker is the use of the imperative form of the verbs, but that some verbs may...
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This week on Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation
Last week I released a proof-of-concept demo of the next generation Ubiquity parser design and it was also the focus of discussion in our weekly internationalization meeting.1 Christian Sonne even...
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Ubiquity Commands by The Numbers
Recent work in the Ubiquity internationalization realm has focused on the upcoming Ubiquity parser which will bring some great new features to Ubiquity, including support for overlord verbs and...
View ArticleFoxkeh demos Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation
I just made a screencast with Foxkeh to demo the Ubiquity next generation parser demo and to demonstrate how easy it is to add your own language. Foxkeh wants you to localize the parser into your...
View ArticleAdding Your Language to Ubiquity Parser 2
NOTE: This blog post has now been added to the Ubiquity wiki and is updated there. Please disregard this article and instead follow these instructions. You’ve seen the video. You speak another...
View ArticleBig Issues and Small Issues with Parser 2
Jono and I had a good conversation this morning on IRC about the remaining Big Issues which are blocking the release of Parser 2 as the default parser for Ubiquity. Here are our Top 4 Big Issues: Some...
View ArticleLocalizing Ubiquity: commands and nountypes
Now that Parser 2 is in decent shape and a number of parsing problems in different languages have been tackled, the focus has now shifted to coming up with an approach for localizing Ubiquity commands...
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Ubiquity Localization Update
As we move closer and closer to shipping a Ubiquity with there is still much work to be done, particularly in the area of localization. In a recent Ubiquity meeting we laid out the explicit...
View ArticleLocalizing Commands for Ubiquity 0.5
As many of you know, earlier this week we released a preview of version 0.5 (0.5pre). We’re going to stress test and refine this release through the weekend and push the official 0.5 out next Tuesday....
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Ubiquity Localization: What’s New, What’s Next
Yesterday we released Ubiquity 0.5, a major update to the already popular Ubiquity platform. Among numerous other features, Ubiquity 0.5 includes the first fruit of months of research on building a...
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A Visual Guide to Community Command Localization
A natural language interface is only “natural” if it’s in your natural language. With this mantra in mind, we’ve been making steady progress on the challenging problem of Ubiquity localization. The...
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Nountype Quirks: Day 2
.scorebar { background-color:red; display:inline-block; height:0.5em; vertical-align:middle; } .scoretable td { font-size: 0.7em; } Today I’m continuing the process of reviewing and tweaking all of...
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Nountype Quirks: Day 3: Geo Day
.scorebar { background-color:red; display:inline-block; height:0.5em; vertical-align:middle; } .scoretable td { font-size: 0.7em; } It’s time for one more installment of Nountype Quirks, where I...
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Let’s talk about how cool our localizers are
I uploaded Ubiquity to BabelZilla, an online community and tool for localizing Mozilla-style strings, just a couple days ago and we already have French and Polish complete.1 WOW! Granted, these are...
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The Aliens Aliases Have Landed
This week I implemented a new way to customize and extend Ubiquity commands: CmdUtils.CreateAlias. The use case for and importance of CreateAlias CreateAlias lets you easily create a special-case...
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