Maggot Brain

See your django models in SVG

Last week I found django-command-extensions, which together with graphviz allow you to create pretty displays of your django models. Sadly not the other way around, but still better than nothing.

The awkward piece is when you like to get SVG output, which I do. Renders fine on my linux VM, but my gecko on OSX is worried (rightfully, I guess). Which can be fixed with sed, at least in those graphs that I have:

sed -e's/8.00/8px/g;s/ Bold;/ ; font-weight: bold;/g'

Basically, you have to fix the font size and the font weight.

I’ll see if I blog about the actual models pre or post April 1st. I don’t find them funny, so they’re not gonna go live tomorrow ;-).

Right to left, explained

If you ever felt like you technically understand right-to-left (RTL), but lack a feeling for it, this joke might help.

New hook for l10n feedback

We have a new hook for folks to get feedback on how to expose patches to localizers. We created a bugzilla account community@localization.bugs, which interested localizers are going to follow. I for one do at least.

So when you have a bug and need input on how to localize it, you can now CC :l10n (part of that accounts real name) instead of just me, and get feedback from a variety of different localizers.

If you’re a localizer that’s willing to help out our developers on creating good patches for l10n, please start watching community@localization.bugs by editing your mail preferences on bugzilla.