saganist: Zyzzyva 1.1.0 screenshot leaked!

Michael Thelen (

saganist) wrote,
@ 2008-03-09 18:01:00

Current mood:	excited
Entry tags:	zyzzyva

Zyzzyva 1.1.0 screenshot leaked!
Okay, I'm leaking the screenshot myself. After a few weeks of major code overhaul whenever I have a spare moment, the bleeding edge version of Zyzzyva can now handle multiple lexicons. This allows cool things like the # symbols you see in the screenshot. I just now, about five minutes ago, implemented the final bit of code to make this possible. At this point, most of what remains to be done should be downhill work - making sure I didn't break anything, cleaning up minor issues, making everything pretty, writing documentation, etc.

I hope to release Zyzzyva 1.1.0 within a week or two. That ought to give Texas Sowpods contestants (like me) a fair head start on some Collins study. I expect this version may even make the world lexicon more accessible to any OWL players who are curious about it, since you can easily flip a switch and see what shows up. Are you excited? I am.

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dillyroo
2008-03-10 12:56 am UTC (link)

OMG I LOVE YOU! :P
we had a kinda work around in zyzzyva, but studying for causeway(i know, i know, i'm complaining based on a minor hassle for like two weeks, sue me!) was a pain coz i had no idea how to separate looked-up words without the # other than manually, especially since our version of lexpert didn't have new words for csw...but then i heard u were working on this and i was all excited, but decided not to bug you :P. Thanks a ton for your work! (even tho i don't even know when i'll be using it next..)

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	saganist 2008-03-11 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	You rule, dL :-) I've been working hard on Zyzzyva this weekend, and I really, really hope to release the new version very soon! I'm already finding it very useful, not only to see # for Collins words, but also % for new OWL2 words. Oh yeah, and ! for expurgated words, heheh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	timotab 2008-03-10 02:01 am UTC (link)
	Dude! You're a mac user! yay! :) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	saganist 2008-03-11 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	Heck yeah! I switched probably about a year ago. Maybe a little longer, I forget. I actually switched from Linux, as I've never, ever been a fan of Windows. OS X rocks my world. One of these days I'll pony up to buy a copy of Leopard. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crosstables 2008-03-12 02:44 am UTC (link)
	I <3 my MacBook. Mmmmmmmm. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	basophil 2008-03-10 06:15 am UTC (link)
	Very much looking forward to this particular update, and terribly belated thanks for pretty much everything you've done with Zyzzyva thus far. (Reply to this)(Thread)

saganist
2008-03-11 07:59 pm UTC (link)

Thanks! I'm excited about it. I'm already finding it useful as well.

Just last night in fact, Larry Rand sent an email about GYMNAST/SYNTAGM, and I was pretty sure SYNTAGM was new in OWL2. Previously I would have done something like "Anagram Match: AGMNSTY, Belongs to Group: New in OWL2" to find out whether I was right. But that's kind of weird, because it only brings up the one word, not both, which is a bit jarring. And if you get no search results, you have to double-check that you did everything right, and that your word really was not new in OWL2. Not super painful, but still, ugh.

Last night, I just pulled up a search window, made sure the lexicon said OWL2, and searched for Anagram Match: AGMNSTY. Up came both anagrams, with a little % symbol next to SYNTAGM. Much, much nicer.

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	getofftheoven 2008-03-10 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I guess this means I pretty much have to sleep with you now, don't I...haha. Really, this news is awesome and I can't wait to start using the new Zyzzyva. Well done! (Reply to this)(Thread)

saganist
2008-03-11 08:03 pm UTC (link)

You don't know how long I've been waiting for you to say that, my darling! Errmm, uhhh... anyway, I remember when you emailed me a couple years ago saying that Zyzzyva looked cool but you probably wouldn't use it much until it could do the # thing. I did want to implement that at some point, but I estimated that point to be pretty far in the future. I can hardly believe it's here! Took me long enough. Actually, one of the (minor) reasons I committed to playing in Texas Sowpods is because I knew it would force me to implement this Zyzzyva feature for my own benefit. It seems I have to trick myself into being productive.

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	crosstables 2008-03-12 02:45 am UTC (link)
	What!? Hardly ANYBODY has slept with me for the web site! Grrrr. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	waystar 2008-03-10 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	Shiny! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	saganist 2008-03-11 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	Feng shui! Or... however you say thank you in Chinese. :-) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cromulentally 2008-03-17 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	This update doesn't really do anything for me, but I'll chime in with everyone else and say thanks a bunch for a great piece of software. (Reply to this)

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