Drizzle translations progress

First of all, that’s to everyone who’s pitched in so far. There are more messages to translate coming… So far we have contributions in 15 different languages. Quite impressive. Check it out:

A slight engineering puzzle is coming up. As you can see from the german output, “Unknown database ‘lskfs’” wasn’t translated. This is because that error message is actually stiched together on the server and sent back over the wire, so it’s not executing in the context of the locale the client is connecting as. That’s fine for messages without parameters, but for ones with parameters, which would be the main reason to build on server and send over the wire, running gettext() on the client gets us no where. Not sure what the right answer to this is yet…

Gambling and calling it investing

I was reading comments on an article at BusinessWeek about Sun and Jonathan Schwartz, when I came across this gem:

Dude, my son’s college funds are tied up in your stock. He keeps getting older but the stock is still hanging. I have two years for that stock to rocket.

Aside from anything useful I might have to offer Sun… I would like to poke this guy in the eyeball. Why would you ever tie up the entirety of something as important as your son’s college fund in a single stock? That’s stupid. As if diversification weren’t a well-known concept already, I would have thought that maybe people would have learned from Enron. Perhaps this is a dedicated employee trusting in and investing in the company he works for. The really naive, since a tank in the company (which happens) means not only is your job but also your source of investment in jeopardy. (That’s what happened at Enron) Or, maybe it’s just a fanboi… not sure.

But please, PLEASE, don’t blame Sun or Jonathan Schwartz if your kids can’t go to college. I recommend talking to a investment broker or something.

Dude.

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