I’ve officially switched to using Google Chrome! I installed it today because there was an extension for Skritter that was only available for Chrome. Actually I have yet to install that extension because I’ve been busy getting Chrome to do everything that Firefox does for me. Since Google has allowed developers to build extensions for [...]
Lately I’ve been doing a bit of Rails development for an important project at work. While I really enjoy working with the Ruby programming language and Rails (and ActiveRecord) can be huge time savers, I occasionally find myself wishing I was working with Java instead. I have several major beefs with Ruby on Rails, as [...]
Recently introduced to the world of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and I must say it is fairly awesome. It’s interesting how Amazon has gone from selling books, to selling everything, to becoming a computational resource utility company. Currently getting a grip on the following technologies: Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) – This is “The Cloud.” Amazon [...]
Last weekend I attended the Beijing Perl Workshop. It was actually my first time attending such a workshop and my first time giving a speech at one. Unfortunately I felt my speech train wrecked (some technical problems with my laptop followed by my own stuttering and incoherence). Next time I’ll do better, I promise! Overall [...]
I decided to register a domain for CEDict, so now you can access it at: http://www.cedict.info I’ve also made a few changes and bug fixes. One important bug that got fixed was that character and bigram frequency data was only getting partially loaded. This was due to a (possible, not yet confirmed) bug in MySQL’s [...]
I’ve update my CEDict application with a new “simple” query form, context-sensitive help, an about page, and several bug fixes. Next on my list of features is to implement user accounts so you can save word lists and such. Hah, now that I think about it I forgot to implement the autocompleter for the new [...]
After putting my CEDict application up I soon found that it was broken in IE. I have applied a patch so now all you IE users out there can use it without a problem. By the way, if you are still using IE you should really switch to Firefox.
I have placed a preliminary release of my CEDict web application up on the site. You can access it here: http://www.chrisdavaz.com/cedict At present you can query using English, Pinyin and Chinese characters. Autocomplete functionality is active for the English and Pinyin inputs however I have turned it off for the Chinese input as it was [...]
Here is the problem: You are developing a web application that uses a database. You don’t want to create a new connection every time you do something with the database, so you naturally create a class that manages a single database connection and gives it out to any who asks (some people call this a [...]
