So I haven’t had as much free time as I wanted this week. I’ve been busy at my day job getting everything “taken care of” before my last day there on August 13th. After that, I’ll just be contracting with them for 5 hours a week, because I’ll be a full time teaching and grading assistant for the University of New Mexico Foreign Languages and Literatures Department. I’m pretty excited about that!
Nevertheless, I had a few hours free tonight, so I did some sprucing up. I made some icons, fixed some style sheets and squashed some small bugs. There are a few things I want to include before the semester starts:
- Add a few pronoun paradigms: is and iste for sure.
- Add some verb paradigms: perhaps volo verbs.
- Fix up the database backend, especially in the realm of update cascades (it’s technical, and you’re probably wondering what that means — don’t worry, it’ll make things better).
- Speed up the morphology lookup. It’s not slow by any means, coming in at approximately 100 milliseconds per word. But still, I think I can get it down to 40ms. Every bit helps, especially if this site ever gets popular!
- Make a new database and web server. Right now it’s being graciously hosted at the place I work here on campus (Natural Heritage New Mexico). I’ve been the system admin there for about 5 years, but now — as I wrote earlier in this post — I won’t be there for very much longer.
I’m sure there’s more to update, but I think it’s time to take a break for the evening. Enjoy!