May has been a bit of a behind-the-scenes month: seemingly nothing changed on the Dashboard, but the Proxy gained a lot of new abilities and several changes were made to the backend, out of sight. We’ve moved our email service from Mandrill to SparkPost, we added the groundwork for customized Work Package generation, a global search-and-replace operation, and an on-the-fly editing of the source content before it is passed to translation.
April has brought us a new tradition in Easyling: event favicons - following in Google’s footsteps, we have decided to change our browser tab icon from time to time, and April 1 was just one occasion. But jokes aside, we were hard at work and finished the month with several new features to use in your projects. These include the ability to create one-shot regular expression filters during crawls, we’ve reworked the Work Package interface, and we’ve added the (beta!
March Madness has passed in Budapest, and the result is a number of new features ready to keep Easyling at the forefront of the industry. Some of our highlights included TransMapping (the ability to map and translate URL path segments), support for the srcset attribute on images, UI for the cache exclusion rules, and the ability to exclude pages from a crawl based on regular expressions. See the full points after the jump!
2016 is a leap year, meaning this month, we had one extra day to bring you new features and powers in the proxy. And did we ever put it to good use! Dropbox integration has left beta, we’ve developed a gateway to proxy our proxy, translation memories can now be populated for selected target languages instead of all at once, Link headers are now permitted in the interest of easier SEO efforts, and the link mapper can be set to a more permissive behaviour to accommodate more diverse inputs.
After New Year’s, development resumed in earnest at Easyling. This time around, efforts were mostly focused on bringing already-existing admin features to the general public, by constructing user interfaces, as well as a few completely green-field developments. Thus, the ability to use ETags in crawls was revealed, as well as the power to add non-printing characters on the Workbench, to use path prefix configuration to selectively override cache headers for paths, and to use IPv4/IPv6 addresses for staging servers.
Christmas and New Year’s eve passed with presents, champagne, and fireworks here in Budapest. As is customary, Easyling users weren’t left without presents either: December saw the experimental rollout of our DropBox integration, an improvement of the crawler system, a massive regular expression tester, and our greatest present, the frontend for the new multicache feature (see the detailed blog post here). See the details after the jump! Multicache UI Just before Christmas, the user interface for the multicache feature was rolled out, moving from the public beta to a public release.
November has come and gone with cold rains, but despite the glum climate, we still managed to add three fairly major features to our offering, as well as a number of miscellaneous fixes, optimizations, and tweaks. The Translation Proxy now has the ability to translate nested JSON-structures, strip the tags from HTML-formatted attributes, and to apply a default exclusion behavior on new pages in a project. See the full details after the jump!
Another month, another round of updates, another set of powerful new features - just business as usual at Easyling. Expanding the translation proxy’s arsenal this month are changes as tiny as adding a new header to be forwarded, and as great as a complete rework of the crawl history interface. Also deployed this month are our public caching service, the balance info box facelift, the ability to handle TMX files with only partial locales, and an SEO filter for the workbench.