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Sharing Sourcecode

Saturday, January 15, 2005

I got a request to share my sourcecode yesterday.
First off, I generally don’t do that because a lot of my stuff is derived from work found elsewhere anyway. Also, my code is crappy looking! I mean, I’m not a real programmer, so sometimes I do strange, circuitous things to make my code work [...]

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ConLang Rosetta Stone

Friday, April 16, 2004

A “do-it-yourself” Rosetta stone!
For those of you who are already familiar with my conlang resources, you know that they’re mostly based on scripts originally written by Chris Pound. Well, one of the scripts he wrote was to automatically transliterate a text into a more or less realistic conlang text that’s generated on the fly. [...]

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Automation in Conlanging

Saturday, November 29, 2003

I see a disturbing trend…
I spent a little too much quality time on a conlang BBS this week. Well, it’s not a real BBS, but it’s one of those new-fangled, PHP-based web-BBS things. I hate them. I much, much prefer the old-fashioned e-mail list or newsgroup.
Anyway, I got all wrapped up in [...]

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ConLang Generator

Friday, April 25, 2003

New and Improved!
Way back when I first put the ConLang Word Generator on this site, my ultimate goal was to have something that created an entire language via CGI. There were lots of tools available for making words and even languages, but they were all limited in some greater or lesser way. For [...]

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ConLang CGI Script

Saturday, February 8, 2003

Well, I’ve finally done it!
I’ve been working on this for about a year and I finally got it done. I took a script from Chris Pound’s Name Generation page and made into a CGI script. It took a little bit, but I finally worked out how to use the CGI library in PERL [...]

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