I have decided to no longer continue to blog in English on this site. I will still be blogging in Dutch.
It’s been increasingly difficult for me to maintain a certain continuity here. It’s been a great experiment, and a lot of fun, but I feel it’s time to let this one go.
I’m working on a […]
A while ago the fabulous folks from Ubuntu released the latest version of their popular Linux distributions. The version number of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu is now up to 7.10 (being the year and month it was released). More often however Ubuntu versions are referred to by their alliterating nicknames. I’ll go over my experiences […]
Today I released my very first public Ruby project!
Pinyin is a pure Ruby library with a specific focus : converting between various transliteration systems for Mandarin Chinese.
Over time various systems have been devised to capture the phonetics of the Chinese language, often as a teaching aid.
This is the first public release. Pinyin for Ruby can […]
Important 2007-12-01 : This article is deprecated. The location of the repository changed and I haven’t had the time to update my scripts to reflect this. With version 0.50 approaching an easier way of trying out Nitro is on the horizon. I’ll write a new article soon that will supersede this one. If you […]