How It Works
A lot of people have asked for information on the methodologies involved in WordOwl.
As time goes on they will emerge into posts in the Blog, but this page will serve as the hub of all the articles to be written/have been written, and as an index in a way better than just the historical archive link.
Evolution of WordOwl
As time has moved on, WordOwl has gone through several upheavels in its code, however I don’t offer explicit version numbers for anything WordOwl-related. Instead I have vague generations of code, that cover many revisions, and I only change ‘generation’ when major changes happen, but even then some code is left from earlier generations. (There is still some of G1’s code in the present base.)
- Generation 1: February 2008 - June 2008
- Generation 2: June 2008
- Generation 3: July 2008 - November 2008
- Generation 4: November 2008 to present
Other stuff
I have a bunch of other points of interest around WordOwl’s construction.
- The Comic XML storage format
- To MySQL or not to MySQL, that is the question?
- The riddles of the Sphinx index
- A transcription is born
If there are any additional articles you’d like to see, please feel free to email me - wordowl@wordowl.com - and I’ll see what I can do.