As an early new years resolution I’ll start with sharing more of the snippets I code up to make my life easier. Here’s one : the SRT subtitle scaler. It’s a little ruby script to sync subtitles with a movie. I don’t know how often one needs this, but I got some English subtitles on-line […]
I have somewhat neglected my English speaking audience, I must apologise. I’ve recently moved to Taiwan to study Mandarin, and my travellers journal will mostly be published on the Dutch side of this blog.
Before I left to Taiwan my grandmother gave me a beautiful little camera, and I’ve been taking pictures like a madman and […]
Soon my first professional contract comes to an end, and I will have time again to develop my newsfeed addiction.
Previously I used Bloglines, which is certainly one of the better on-line feed readers. I’m switching to a desktop feed reader however, I’m trying out Liferea.
I’d like to add all the Planet Ugent blogs to my […]
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 […]