Obviously the New Years J-Ben release didn’t happen. Anyway, I’m going to remove any tentative date on the software’s release, although I am continuing to work on it (as is evidenced by the git repository logs). I’ve been doing a lot of code reorg, but things are starting to look good. I’m also rethinking what’s [...]
The new year has nearly arrived, and with it, a small update. For family, I have some big personal news. I prefer not to say it publicly right now, but if you ask Mom, she can tell you what it is. Otherwise, ask me in an e-mail directly. I’ll update this in a couple of [...]
This was a rough problem. I’m using Python’s SAX modules for parsing JMdict, and ran into a problem regarding its use of XML entities. Nothing wrong with JMdict, but the expansion is rather verbose and does not lend itself well to what I’m doing. I don’t want “word containing irregular kanji usage”, but rather, I [...]
It’s been quite some time since I’ve updated this blog, so today I’ll write a few words. My life’s been pretty busy as of late, preparing for job hunting here in Japan. I will be continuing to live here for a while longer; I am unsure how many more years. So, I’m beginning to search [...]
Over the last two days I’ve finished a series of bug fixes for J-Ben, addressing the multibyte search issue, a previously unknown infinite loop bug, and some other minor issues. I’m getting ready for a new release, which I think will be out within the next few days. However, I think there’s one more feature [...]