Dhvani rewrite

 Posted on May 22, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

I started a re-write on Dhvani architecture, keeping the algorithm same. This is based on Kiss principle. Instead of client server architecture a single executable is my plan. This will help me to integrate it with KTTS, kate etc. Now I know how to integrate Dhvani with KTTS.

Studied autoconf and automake for this…

More and more items in my TODO list…

dhvani  tts 

Only Aspell, no space for others…

 Posted on May 22, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

It seems that our work on our own spell checker doesnot have any importance other than learning. Aspell is light years ahead of us.There are ispell, myspell also. But we learned a lot about the approximate string comparison, fast search on a big wordlist, candidate list generation etc.. Gora Mohanty gave valuable insights to me on Aspell and how to create the Aspell word list for Malayalam.But still problems on compound words of malayalam. [Read More]
aspell  spell checker 

A myth called the Indian programmer

 Posted on May 21, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

“Most software professionals in India are not programmers, they are mere coders,” http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Sunday_Specials/Review/A_myth_called_the_Indian_programmer/articleshow/msid-1633868,curpg-1.cms I completely agree with this article. We should make ourself different from others. Software engineers are becoming dump users. Assemblers of pieces of code that even high school students can do. Are we using anything that we studied in our Computer Science courses in the engineering college? Are we showing any creativity in this field? (There are exemptions, I agree, but in general) [Read More]
indian  programmer 

Spell checker and Late night coding..

 Posted on May 21, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

It was a wonderful week end. Myself and Benzi were working on the spell checker for Malayalam. In April we had done lot of research on this. We did the coding for the dictionary representation in the Binary Retrieval tree (TRIE). Saturday night we did the candidate list generation coding. It is a wonderful experience to code in the late night – one laptop and two persons to code!!!. Every thing worked fine. [Read More]
Malayalam  SMC  spell checker 

Plus meet May 2007 at Tippus Fort , Palakkad

 Posted on May 8, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

Anivar, Praveen, Hiran, Sujith and myself reached the fort at 10.15 AM. Anivar, Praveen, Hiran and Sujith were wearing T-Shirts with Debian Logo. Riyas has reached already.Meeting started at 11 AM. Around 20 members participated in the meeting. Meeting place was FREE and OPEN as you have seen in the pictures. We sat under the tree in the form of a ring. Students from MES kuttippuram, GEC Sreekrishnapuram and GEC Thrissur participated. [Read More]
debian  foss  palakkad  plus  SMC 

Free software Alternatives or replacements

 Posted on April 4, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

What will be the impact of a Discussion on a mailing list regarding

freedom concerns.

See the Old thread on PLUS

http://lists.sarovar.org/pipermail/plus-discuss/2007-January/000628.html

& Old gnu Page

http://web.archive.org/web/20060516072757/http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html

If community is vigilant about Freedom lets see what happens

http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html

The Word “Free software Alternatives” changed with “Free software

replacements”

freedom  replacements  software 

Debian Installer Etch Release Candidate 2 released

 Posted on March 21, 2007  |  Santhosh Thottingal

The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the second release candidate (RC2) of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch. Unless release critical issues are discovered, this will be the version of the installer that will be included in the release of Etch. There are no real major changes in this release, but we have been able to use the time since RC1 to fix quite a few important and minor [Read More]