http://www.thai-language.com/news/ Weblog chronicle of ongoing development activities at thai-language.com, the top Internet site for English speakers wishing to study the Thai language. en-us glenn@thai-language.com 2004-01-21T03:47:31-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2004_01#399 I'm now re-entering a lengthy blog entry which I lost earlier today by pressing the wrong button :-( When I was in Bangkok last week, Khun Asda mentioned that he had met with longtime site visitor and collaborator Charles, who... 399@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2004-01-21T03:47:31-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2004_01#398 I am pleased to announce the end of a 4-month development cycle which has seen a complete overhaul of the DBEdit database maintenance tool. This cycle has been particularly grueling since so many things were changing and at times I... 398@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2004-01-06T14:52:15-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2004_01#397 Uploaded new entries, now 25857.... 397@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2004-01-02T20:46:05-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#396 Posted Bryan's article on spacing (from the message board) to the reference section. Entered corrections and made many changes in the site editing tool (DBEdit). I am now optimistic that this work is converging so that the tool can once... 396@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-30T14:21:33-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#395 The first provision has been made for correcting the transliteration of phrases. Previously, phrase transliterations were irrevocably built from the simple transliteration of its component parts. Silly me. Originally, a phrase was optionally able to draw upon a single "alternate... 395@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-27T21:36:12-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#394 Some people have asked me how they can tell when new content has been loaded into the site. This is easy; there has been a content revision number available in site info for some time; you can keep track of... 394@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-27T17:52:59-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#393 393@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-25T23:21:29-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#392 I have not been idle these many days; I have been engineering changes to the database model which I now liken to neurosurgery. Perhaps a brief overview of the current priority stack is in order. I wanted to enhance the... 392@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-20T21:48:52-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#391 Previously, an item in our database could have a single prefix. Nesting could be accomplished by using that prefixed word as a prefix for another item, but this system did have some drawbacks. For example, somtimes it doesn't make sense... 391@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-17T05:28:59-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#390 I added two options to the control panel which can be used to limit the size of the download of a dictionary page. Some of the pages for basic words such as เป็น are quite large. They take time for... 390@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-11T17:48:32-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#389 I decided that "attributive verb" is the correct term for the part-of-speech that was incorrectly christened "stative verb" last week. Thai does have stative verbs, but they are not the empowered adjectives I was seeking to categorize. Here is the... 389@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-10T16:44:22-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#388 Those of you who have been able to discern something about the structure or internal layout of our database know that two fundamental and distinct elements in our system are the so-called "phrase" and "definition." In short, a phrase is... 388@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-09T03:02:31-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#387 Added a WMA file playback capability to DBEdit (see article). Previously, DBEdit could only play back WAV files—once the audio clips were converted to WMA (which we must do in order to dramatically reduce the download time and bandwith usage... 387@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-08T20:06:38-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#386 Wrote the first release of the reference page on Stative Verbs. Implemented the IDops collection object.... 386@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-07T05:04:13-08:00 http://www.thai-language.com/news/2003_12#385 Uploaded new entries, consolidated some duplicate entries which were revealed by new database validation code. DBEdit: fixed numerous bugs; cleaned up and organized code; consolidated Thai-search function usage and deleted unwanted versions; replaced the informational log-window output functions with vararg... 385@http://blog.thai-language.com/ 2003-12-04T23:52:44-08:00