Install Rails 3.1 from Scratch with RVM, Git, and all the goodies on Ubuntu!

By On December 21, 2011 · 1 Comment

When I started using Rails, I heard a lot about all the different components that you should have to enhance rails like RVM, RSpec, Guard, Git and many others.  Unfortunately, I could never find a tutorial that put it all together from start to finish in setting up a project in Rails.  Since then, I’ve [...]

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Long Overdue Update

By On June 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The last two month have certainly been rather hecktic due to moving to a new city as well as a vacation in Russia.  Certainly didn’t have much time to update the blog, but I did continue working on the  DuZhe Analyzer/Reader.  The beta should come out right around when Ruby on Rails 3.1.0 goes stable. [...]

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Getting Started with 读者 (DuZhe)

By On April 5, 2011 · 2 Comments

读者 (DuZhe) has reached a point where it is fairly usable, but it’s probably a bit difficult to use without a decent guide so I am writing a guide to help the early adapters.  The analyzer comes with 3 basic options for text analysis: Read, Analyze, and Segment.

Let’s get started by inserting some Chinese [...]

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读者 (DuZhe) Alpha 2 Release

By On April 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I took a bit longer than I initially thought to refactor the back-end code of DuZhe, but I took that opportunity to update some of the front-end as well.  Alpha 1 release had significant issues on the front-end, but I think I knocked a lot of them out.  I plan to write a quick Getting [...]

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Learning a Language: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

By On April 2, 2011 · 1 Comment

Learning a language is a challenging and rewarding process, be it your first foreign language or your tenth. It’s not by any means an instant satisfaction, but it will certainly last for many years; not to mention the benefit gained from the acquired skill will last a life time.  Since mastering a language can take a [...]

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读者 (DuZhe) Enters Alpha Stage

By On March 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

After coding some of the UI for the reader, I decided to streamline some of the features for the alpha release and move them down the road to future alpha iteration.  As such, earlier today I pushed version 0.1 to the server.  A key feature that is missing at the moment is editing bad dictionary [...]

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RegEx to Parse CC-CEDICT Entries

By On March 17, 2011 · 1 Comment

I haven’t had a chance to update the blog as much as I’d like to in the past couple of weeks.  Lack of updates gave me some extra time to work on the 读者 (DuZhe) Text Analyzer, which is progressing very well.  I have the reader working in a very rough form, but I still [...]

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读者 Text Analyzer Update – Download [UPDATED]

By On March 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I rolled out a new update to the 读者 Text Analyzer.  It’s not a major update, but it comes with some fixes to the user interface.  I added a paginated table of all the words that the analyzer segments.  The table is interactive so you can filter and sort it [...]

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Deploying Rails 3 Apps with Git, Capistrano and Passenger

By On February 20, 2011 · 21 Comments

I have been developing DuZhe Text Analyzer using Ruby on Rails 3 (since it is my preferred method of developing backend for online applications) over the last month or so.  Since this is longer than a 20-minute application, I decided to use a version control system, git.  I intend to roll out features continuously so a [...]

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读者 (DuZhe) – Text Analyzer

By On February 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I haven’t posted anything in a couple of weeks because I have been working on my new project.  It is a Chinese segmentation tool that divides any Chinese text into words and analyzes them for frequency and difficulty.  It also generates flashcards from the generated word list and let’s the user select which cards to [...]

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