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My colleague Christophe has started a new moderated Hi5 Group named the hi5 Language Forum. He describes it as:hi5 Language Group is a discussion forum for people who have suggestions or want to talk about hi5 internationalization, localization, translation and language issues. Please join and invite others in a lively discussion. hi5 staff regularly participate in the discussion to answer your questions and listen to product suggestions.
We'll do our best to answer all questions but English, French, Russian, and Spanish are preferred. Thanks.
So far we've had interest in user supported Albanian and Greek translations along with fixes to some of the existing languages.
It's been just over 6 weeks since the profile skins feature was released. We've had such a positive response to it, and so many great skin submissions, that we wanted to highlight some of the designers and their accomplishments.
- Design Machine: Laguren blows away the competition with 14 published skins.
- Race for 2nd Place: Erick, Mario Badillo, and Doar Eu have 5 published skins each.
- Stellar Award: Didier's Star Dust skin shows on almost 350,000 profiles and has secured the #1 spot in the gallery.
- One Hit Wonders: Savannah and Serge have only one published skin each, but their submissions reside in the top 10.
- Lounge Loitering: indecent consistently posts and answers questions in the hi5 Profile Skins Lounge, and DJXXX, also an active Lounge contributor, created SKIN MAKERS, a skin help group for Spanish speakers.
The gallery also showcases our first sponsored skin, which was created by Wrigley 5 Gum, and appears on over 17,000 profiles. In all, the skins gallery contains 157 skins by 79 skin designers, with new skins and designers being introduced everyday. Thank you to all the members who have contributed so far, and if you haven't yet, check out the skin gallery!
About 30 people attended the June San Francisco Bay Area Postgres Users Group meeting on June 12th. The topic was all about how Hi5 scaled PostgreSQL on over fifty servers to become one of the top twenty web sites in the world. Paul Lindner (Architect) and Ram Gudavalli (Lead Engineer) from Hi5 covered:
- The overall architecture, Servers/Storage/Network
- PostgreSQL scaling and partitioning, table partitioning
- Profiling methodology
- Use of tools such as Slony, iBatis, memcached and more.
A lively pizza-fueled discussion continued well after the talk. Thanks to all those that came to visit -- we're sure to do more of these events.