Tag Archive for 'development'

EPaperDownloader for wort.lu

EPaperDownloader ScreenshotI wrote a small application that makes it easy to download the e-paper from wort.lu as a PDF document for easier reading. More information as well as a download link can be found in the software section of this website. It is a first BETA release, so there will be bugs which might obviously never be fixed ;-). You need to have a valid account for the e-paper on wort.lu in order to use the application. Oh, and before I forget it, I am not responsible for any problems that will might occur.

Europass CV

I quickly put together an XSL stylesheet to convert a Europass CV XML file to a EuropeCV LaTeX file. It is currently in a beta stage as it can only process English CVs and as not everything gets converted correctly yet.

You can convert your files online or download the XSL stylesheet to adapt it to your own needs.

Inside Spellchecker.lu

I finally completed writing the toolset that I wrote for spellchecker.lu. Those tools parse text files to create text corpora, classify new words using statistical methods, detect common spelling mistakes, generate and upload the dictionary files (as well as the soon-to-be-released debian packages) and they allow me to control and maintain the online checker. All of this is now as simple as it could possibly be. For all of you that always wanted to get a glimpse of what’s going on “behind the scenes” of spellchecker.lu, I prepared a few screenshots of the graphical user interface.

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