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r3 1.5.1 and stickleback 1.6.0 released

These are major r3 / stickleback releases.

r3

r3 1.5.1 introduces a concept called the TUM. That stands for Template/Translation/Target Usage Map. This provides useful meta data about the relationship between targets, templates and translations. The TUM can be queried via the CLI. It also incorporates some significant performance enhancements.

r3 is enhanced under the hood to support major extensions. In particular a separate plugin called r3_r3edit. Watch this space for more on this.

stickleback

stickleback 1.6.0 adds significant features to the sbgui pluginset. This is a platform for building extensible Web user interfaces. From the release notes:

• added inline documenation for export to API docs
• sbgui: all contents of statics directories now copied into web facing statics directory
• sbgui: psparent relationships used in calculating render path
• sbgui: support for subdirectories in statics directory
• sbgui: support for Viewlet::renderString()

stickleback has also bundled sbws for a while now. This is a pluginset for accessing RESTful webservice APIs.

More documentation is coming to stickleback within the next 2 weeks, expect an announcement here.

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stickleback and r3 updates

r3 is now at 1.4.4. It has had received the benefit of various small improvements including:

• Support for chomp argument in r3 tags.  This causes the first following newline to be swallowed.
• A fix to a typo in the Web UI that was causing a fatal error
• A schema upgrade bug fixed

stickleback 1.5.2 was released yesterday. It includes a new pluginset: sbws which is designed to provide easy access to RESTful web services APIs. The release also includes a host of other fixes and enhancements, including a fix to a bug that caused compatibility problems between Symfony and r3.

Expect major releases of both stickleback and r3 in the coming week or so. stickleback API documentation is also on its way.

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r3 1.4.1 released

r3 1.4.1 was released yesterday. This is a bug fix release and addresses some legacy compatibility issues with PHP 5.1. Other fixes are minor.

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r3 at barcamp brighton 3

Rumors have reached us that r3 was featured at barcamp brighton 3 in the UK. The talk was given by Steve Marshall — a fellow Yahoo! developer. We’ll be hunting down more information about the session.

It’s great to get reports about r3 in the wild. This one is especially resonant for me, not only because I helped develop r3, and work at Yahoo! but also because I attended Sussex University where the conference was held and lived in Brighton before coming out to the states

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r3 1.4 released

r3 1.4 was released this week, together with stickleback 1.4

The release includes many enhancements, optimizations and bug fixes, including a caching layer that should radically improve generation times. The main change though is the inclusion of ‘mutable dimensions’.

r3 is designed to help you manage multiple versions of sites or configurations that differ across a number of axes (or dimensions). r3’s Yahoo! roots resulted in a set of hard coded dimensions: product, intl, and page. However users both inside and outside of Yahoo! have been asking for more flexibility for some time. How about a version dimension which can allow you to selectively alter an old iteration? Or what about a gender dimension?

r3 1.4 no longer hard codes dimensions. It’s entirely up to you. This change is entirely backwards compatible. Moving forwards, however, things suddenly get a lot more flexible.

Want to try it out? Download the new r3 and stickleback releases.

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stickleback to get RESTful Web Services support

stickleback, the plugin engine that powers r3 has gained a new extension designed to make it easy to manage pluggable Web services. The extension is to be called sbws, and will take its place alongside extensions for building pluggable web interfaces (sbgui) and command line interfaces (sbcli).

The extension was written by r3/stickleback developer Steve Webster. It is in the testing stage behind the Yahoo! firewall, but should find its way onto SourceForge in the coming weeks.

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r3 featured in OSCON talk

Andrei Zmievski’s talk at this year’s OSCON was entitled intl me this, intl me that. I’m delighted to say he included an overview of r3, and some usage examples. Follow the link from his talks page or hop right in to the PDF. If your site or application needs to operate across languages or locales these notes make essential reading.

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r3 1.3.12 released to open source

After something of a hiatus the r3 team are once again coding actively and releasing regularly.

Features in 1.3.12 include:

• Access translations within an r3 cphp block by calling $context->trans('source');.
• The cphp tag strips out the next character if it is a newline (same behaviour as <?php ... ?>).
• Numerous bug fixes and improvements.
• Improved support for Windows (unofficially supported).

r3 1.3.12 represents possibly the last point release before 1.4 which will include some major new features.

You can get it from the SourceForge.net download page. Remember that r3 requires stickleback.

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Why this site is not generated using r3

As you can probably tell, openr3.com uses the excellent WordPress publishing platform. Over the last fiew days we’ve fielded a few offline comments to this effect: “Hey, if r3 is such a great tool for generating sites, why aren’t you using it for openr3, eh? eh?”

Actually, answering that question is a good way of covering some basics.

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Welcome to openr3

openr3 will provide information and resources related to r3, the open source internationalization and localization tool developed by Yahoo! Expect news, tutorials, downloads, and discussion. We’ll also cover stickleback, the open source plugin engine that powers r3 in several areas.

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