Friday, March 12th, 2010

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 [...]