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anyone working on phonetic search algorithms for REBOL?

There are some soundex implementations for REBOL.

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=soundex.r
And simetrics may be of interest:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/documentation.r?script=simetrics.r

I don't know much about it, but would there normally be different 
implementations for different languages?

You mean soundex?

I think so -- because it's based on how different letters sound; 
and on how letters combine to make sounds. That various by language.

I adapted the REBOL soundex for searches in Romaized Pali (a western 
rendition of an ancient indian language) some years ago. I forget 
the changes I made (they were made by trial and error until we got 
a good set of results. But I remember that H could not longer be 
thrown away as it is in the standard English Soundex algorithm).

I looked at a Soundex algorithm in wikipedia. it seems simpler than 
I thought.

I thought I'd show what I'm working intensely with right now (needed 
a break anyway):

http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/db-console.png


Sorry, it's in Danish. It's the adminstration console for my own 
database engine (very, very different from Pauls engine, so no competiton), 
all powered by VID, Rugby, LIST-VIEW and a home-made database engine 
as well as my own build system. The screenshot is from a production 
system (never mind the word "development" in the window title, we'll 
just ignore that... :-)). The system is 101.2% REBOL based. Nothing 
else but REBOL/View 2.7.6 is used.

The administration program is one of currently 4 programs made for 
the db engine, the other being a statistics program, the third a 
heavily dialected and customizable GUI frontend for the db and the 
fourth is a more rigid and flashy front end for easy readability 
(very much thanks to VID). What's visible in the console drop down 
sheet itself is the result of some db queries, here doing some searching, 
and altering of db records. You talk to the db with a simple dialect. 
I wouldn't call it very fast or anything, but it definitely gets 
the job done and even complicated queries are usually 1-2 lines. 
For what you see in that picture, there is around 200 kb of code. 
Well, that's just what I wanted to say. :-)

forgot to mention that the build system is also partly powered by 
Cheyenne. :-)

Nice looking gui as usual, Henrik.

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Looks very nice Henrik!

Is it essential to use muted color schemes to get a decent looking 
GUI ??

either that or small localized areas of colors. that's how I prefer 
it.

gc: I find spacing is most important, so long as your colour scheme 
isn't too painful...

ahh... what's painful??

That's subjective -- personal preference, context, audience...

Is this too garish - see the screen that appears at the end of the 
short video http://screencast.com/t/jSV7fndZ

There's a lot of varying primary color in there, not so much garish 
or painful as perhaps distracting.  What should the focus be?

just a dashboard ... so no primary focus

let me find one that has data in it

But, spacing -- look at netvibes, for example.  A lot of similar 
color to yours (with some difference) in their default colour scheme. 
 It's spacing that gives all the elements weight.

netvibes?

ahh... interesting.

My one is based upon the MS demo ... when you click on top left, 
it expands to fill 3/4 of the screen and the others collapse to the 
side

so, you're suggesting my panels are stacked to closely together?

too

Not necessarily.  Some of the spacing within not so much.  I think 
that's hard to get right in View though...

Anyone into fantasy football?

Thought it might be cool to get a league going with a bunch of us 
REBOLers.

No more than 14 teams though.

From the earlier soundex discussion. There's something else called 
Edit Distance, which is more directed towards spelling errors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance

Paul, I'd join you if it was fantasy hockey.  Not terrribly interested 
in either of the football's unfortunately.

Brock, maybe a bit later we could start one in hockey.

Metaphone is not much harder than soundex. When I tried both before, 
I liked metaphone's results much better.

Remember this is free http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/78924
  Even if we don't get the 14 teams then I will open it to yahoo 
public to fill the rest.

If you never played Yahoo Fantasy sports before they are excellent.

Even if you don't know football it doesn't matter as the autopicker 
will pick for you the next best player during the draft rotation 
automatically if you choose to.

So great time to learn if you never have.  Once you learn you will 
most likely play from then on as it is very addictive.

Not sure whether it should be in Links, Humour, or somwhere else... 
so posting here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp

Well, I had a very bad experience trying to help someone out to setup 
their wireless.

I had to download a special service pack from the ms site ... but 
of course you have to validate that you have genuine windows.  but 
their plugin for firefox does not work.

and when I tried IE, some stupid content advisor came up blocking 
all access to every site .. the person I was helping had no idea 
how it had been set.  And there was a password protection on the 
content advisor ... with no one in the house knowing what the password 
was.

One would think that MS would at least default microsoft.com to be 
allowed to be browsed to.

All this to download the pka aes upgrade :(

Graham, it's a great way to shun customers. Imagine coming into a 
store and then a big guy stops you and asks you if you intend to 
steal from them. When you say "of course not", he still follows you 
around.

I felt like a criminal

and the guy had zone alarm, and spybot installed .. and that kept 
popping up windows as well!

Half the time one has to navigate security barriers to do anything 
:(

I don't get why people tolerate this. To me, this is an utterly unacceptable 
computing experience.

Graham, next time, make it a 2 steps process:

1) tell him to switch to a mac (you can find help here http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
)
2) this step wont be needed anymore
;-)

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