{"id":41,"date":"2008-03-31T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-04-04T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T16:34:17","slug":"wambooli-technology-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Wambooli Technology Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m proud to unveil a new feature here on the Wambooli web site: The Wambooli Technology Dictionary<\/em>. It’s an on-line dictionary full of computer and high-tech terms.
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\nI’ve been working on the Dictionary for about 4 months now. The idea originally came up almost 13 years ago.<\/p>\n

When I contracted to do the Illustrated Computer Dictionary for Dummies<\/em>, the publisher and I discussed keeping all the words in a text file. The idea was to eventually put the words into a database, and from there into a web site.<\/p>\n

The Illustrated Computer Dictionary for Dummies<\/em> was taken out of print years ago. I still had the text files on hand, so during a lull I decided to convert the files into a database format. That involved learning a database, of course. I chose MySQL<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It took quite a few months to learn MySQL, but I did it. It took even longer to convert the old text files. Sadly, they weren’t written with a database in mind. Not only that, the information was terribly dated; the book was last updated in 1998, I believe. So I had to add in at least 10 years of new technology. Plus I removed a lot of the childish humor.<\/p>\n

Add in some more time to learn PhP<\/em>, a web-page programming language. Then even more time to debug the thing, re-sort information, work on formatting, and add even more terms. Oh, I could mess with the thing forever, so rather than do that, I decided to throw it out in the open and finally present the Wambooli Technology Dictionary to the public.<\/p>\n

Visit the Wambooli Technology Dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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