Incredibly Fast Dictionary
April 14, 2009 by Paul
Filed under Educational, Student Resources
Found a fast new tool.
Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton’s open WordNet 2.0.
The website framework is Ruby on Rails. Looking up words in a dictionary is easy, so we do that with MySQL and cache the top 10,000 definitions in memory.
Doing word completion (a.k.a. auto-complete, auto-suggest, globbing) is not easy, at least [...]
Ideal Template for Writing
April 2, 2009 by Paul
Filed under Paul's Writing Class, Student Resources
In the United States there is a standard template. Korean students don’t have a concept of this for some reason.
It’s frustrating to receive bits of random sized papers, so I’ve developed this for your convenience.
Here it is in MS Word (.docx) format.
Here it is in Adobe .pdf format.
Always remember to use either MS Word, Open [...]