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Gordon P. Hemsley
Last Saturday, I gave a talk entitled Linguistics and the Open Web at HULLS 2011, the first-annual Hunter [College] Undergraduate Linguistics and Language Studies Conference, organized by the Hunter College Linguistics Club. My talk kicked off the event, at which undergraduate students presented their research. (I later joked that it perhaps should have been called […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
A few weeks ago, I watched Watson win on Jeopardy! and did a couple of Skype interviews for graduate school. It really got me thinking about machine learning and natural language processing, as I’ve been looking for a way to tie in my web development and programming skills with linguistics in a way that will […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
Oh, hello Internet. Long time, no see. (That is, if this is the only way you keep track of me. I’ve been tweeting a bit more than I blog.) This post is basically to bring you up to speed on what’s been going on since my last post, back in July. (I never was a […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
About a week and a half ago, the Ubiquity team (I’m the one in red) had a little meeting at the 2010 Mozilla Summit and we discussed the past, present, and future of Ubiquity. One of the main goals of this meeting, in my mind, was to get a new release of Ubiquity out, so […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
As you may or may not know, Ubiquity is officially “on hiatus”. That means that the official Mozilla Labs team is not currently working on it at the moment. Unfortunately, when they made that decision, the latest released version of Ubiquity (0.5.4) was not compatible with Firefox 3.6. Luckily, community member Satyr Murky (satyr) decided […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
Earlier in the week, I went through the process of filing and fixing bugs 546338 and 546340, both related to fixing <a name> problems in Bugzilla. Once that was successful, I got the idea to do a major overhaul of the Bugzilla templates in order to upgrade them from HTML4 code to HTML5 code (sans […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
As Dave Humphrey once taught me: When you do a search, and it comes back with no results, it’s a sign that you need to write something. This is an issue that I came across while testing SASHA (which is available for you to try out, by the way), and I didn’t know if it […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
A couple of weeks ago, I kicked off the addition of SVN support to Bespin (bug 493038). This required two things: One was the actual ability to choose which VCS you’re using, as it defaulted to Hg and the auto-detection was primitive and long since functional. (There were rumors that it had even been missing […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
It’s been a while since I’ve updated here, but I’d like to take the opportunity now to announce the first ever release of the Student Assignment, Scheduling, and Homework Assistant. SASHA 0.1.0-RC1 was released a few weeks ago for testing purposes, before 0.1.0 final is released. Here is the official announcement: This marks the first […]
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Gordon P. Hemsley
This thought just popped into my head a couple a seconds ago, so I thought I’d throw it out there. Has anyone considered (or is anyone actively developing) an online video editing service that takes advantage of all the nice use features afforded by HTML5’s <video> tag? It just seems like it would be the […]
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