25 May 08 It’s the dawn of a new age!
I sit here writing this post with my hands crossed at my lap. I purchased a copy of MacSpeech Dictate. It will be interesting to see how well this program can transcribe my speech into text. It seems to be doing a pretty good job so far. I find it makes a few mistakes but the commands allow me to make corrections very quickly.
It’s even smart enough with its commands to just understand what I mean. When I got to the end of a paragraph I was able to say “New Line” and it did the right thing. We will see whether this new tool helps me write more often now that I can get my fingers out of the space between my brain and the computer.
Tags: speech recognition
24 May 08 Contributions for NodeDB Welcome…
I have been working on this ‘little’ project I call NodeDB, a document-oriented database written entirely in Python. My work on it continues, but there may be others that are interested in helping. If you are out there you can find the code at http://code.tragicallyleet.com/hg/nodedb. Patches can be submitted on a great little tool called Review Board at http://review.tragicallyleet.com.
Tags: nodedb
23 May 08 Code Review On The Web
Mondrian Code Review On The Web
Here is an interesting video of Guido van Rossum talking about a code review project he built out at Google.
Tags: code review, development, process
12 May 08 NodeDB 0.1.0a2 Released
So I have this little project called NodeDB. It is a Python powered document oriented database similar in some ways to CouchDB, Amazon Simple DB, or Google BigTables. It is barely big enough to be considered a project at this point but I believe in releasing early and often.
Today I released the second alpha of version 0.1.0… How is that for hedging my bets? This release includes:
- Persistent filesystem storage of nodes
- Logging to standard error
- A running test suite
The next alpha version (slated to release in a couple of weeks) will add the beginnings of an indexing system and configuration files.
You can find my little project in its source code repository or on PyPi.
