Holizz versus the Web

Well I haven’t written much about this, but I’ve spent many hours on it.

My final year project is a multiradical kanji lookup tool, in Ruby.

Just yesterday, KLookup was approved for inclusion on RubyForge.

So now you can check out the source:

svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/klookup

If you don’t like or have Subversion, I have already made a release.

Supposedly it will run (the executables can be run when in the bin/ directory - note that gklookup does nothing) and install (beware of setup.rb’s weird behaviour). Its only dependency should be Ruby (cklookup requires readline, but falls back to gets). Also, klookup.cgi (drop the whole directory into a directory with ExecCGI set) is apparently confusing, so just bear with it for the moment.

Suggestions, fixes, and questions are very welcome. My email address is floating around somewhere on this site, it’s foobar__AT__holizz.com, where foobar is any string you like.

緑帯になったんです！ぼうもパッスしました！

I became a green belt. I also passed bou (quarter staff).

Tom’s untopical tip: put a “TODO” in your source tree at every point where you have an actionable (make a central file for those without a place). Then you can grep -R TODO * | wc -l to check the general status of the project.

Turning up the font size on GNOME Terminal, removing the menu bar, and hitting F11 (obviously the first two steps are in the configuration).

It’s better than using a virtual terminal because black screens seem to reflect more and Ubuntu’s console doesn’t have Japanese fonts (as they say, X’s true purpose is higher resolution fonts).

P.S. I think I ate a cursed carrot of hunger today. In the end I decided to resurface with my trusty steed and without the Amulet of Yendor. I’m getting better at nethack, but my problem is that I have more important things to do. Maybe that isn’t a problem.