{"id":3085,"date":"2011-08-24T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2011-08-22T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T04:37:10","slug":"wambooli-dictionary-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"Wambooli Dictionary Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a bit longer break between projects than I&#8217;m used to, I&#8217;ve taken it upon myself to overhaul the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/dic\/\">Wambooli Dictionary<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Dictionary was born in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the <em>online<\/em> version of the Dictionary was born in 2008. The physical edition was once a book called the <em>Illustrated Computer Dictionary For Dummies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the Dictionary&#8217;s germination at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=41\">this blog post<\/a> (written in March of 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2008 I was just learning the php language and MySQL database. I&#8217;ve studied those topics quite a bit since then. So during my downtime (on which I have two more weeks), I decided to give the original code and database a look-over.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a few terms were suppressed because I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to get them to display. Well, I figured that out, so the new @ or Symbol category is now linked into the dictionary. (The terms were there before, just not visible.)<\/p>\n<p>I also made the code more secure and optimized a few of the routines that were done rather clumsily thee-and-a-half years ago.<\/p>\n<p>There are still plenty of new terms to add to the Dictionary, which I&#8217;ll be doing over the next several days.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the Wambooli Technology Dictionary isn&#8217;t the most complete and certainly not the most accurate computer dictionary on the Internet. But it&#8217;s mine, and it&#8217;s part of a dream my publisher and I had about 20 years ago. It&#8217;s nice that it&#8217;s still up and visited by at least two or three people over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a bit longer break between projects than I&#8217;m used to, I&#8217;ve taken it upon myself to overhaul the Wambooli Dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}