Finishing my dating app. Planning to launch for testing early next week. I know dating is a saturated market, but I'm trying to approach it on a different angle. Wish me luck!
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#182implementing HTML5 offline web storage for an inventory management system. C# MVC
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#183Packing for a backpacking trip.
where are you backpacking to, if I may ask? :)
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#185I'm working on automating slang term variant creation on OnlineSlangDictionary.com . For example, making the main entry "blow (one) away" also available under blow him away blow her away blow them away etc. It's an unfortunate tax I have to pay to search engines. Luckily it'll pay off additionally when I switch from Google Custom Search to a real custom search solution, and it'll be useful for a few upcoming special…
Are you using any parsing tools? Like the stanford NLP? I am currently developing an API for the stanford NLP so that other web apps can easily use that parsing and word tagging tool. Cool website. I like the idea of the "where is this slang used" feature.
Are you using any parsing tools? Like the stanford NLP?
Not yet. Right now it's just boring search-and-replace ("(one)" => "me", "you", "him", "her", ...) complicated by the fact that the site has a lot of moving parts. (I started it in 1996.)
I'll be looking into Stanford NLP, Python NLTK, etc. in the near future for the aforementioned "special projects".
I am currently developing an API for the stanford NLP so that other web apps can easily use that parsing and word tagging tool.
I'd be quite interested in that! Do you have a website / blog / some way we can keep up with your progress?
Cool website. I like the idea of the "where is this slang used" feature.
Thanks!
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#186Trying to make your search results not suck.
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#187Now: drinking coffee and laying in bed reading HN. In an hour: Building an iPhone app in tandem with its Rails backend for a client.
You are living the life Aaron
Thanks! Moving into contracting has been sort of a revelation for me. I'm working where I want to, when I want to, and—as long as I can respond to my clients in a reasonable timeframe—when I want to.
The only 'downside' is that I don't know if I could ever go back into a traditional corporate environment at this point.
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#188Today's my last day as an employee at my job of 6 years. I'll become a consultant starting Monday so if they need me, it'll be hourly billing. I'm just reviewing my emails today and reassigning my regular responsibilities.
Congratulations!
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#189Looks like my morning is going to be figuring out the status of a few clients we have, afternoon is going to be hacking on one or more of them. Murphy willing I can work on GSOC this evening in peace.
What's your GSoC project?
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#190Working on a few things: Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow. Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites…
I'd be curious to hear what you think of CodeIgniter, I have heard good things. We've been using CakePHP for about 3 years now, and would highly recommend it as a general purpose PHP framework.
Codeigniter is great, I have built small micro cms setups and large, advanced apps with it, and it's been easy to use every step of the way. Forums are good, docs are great, lightweight.