I’ve got ideas for coding projects involving PHP, MySQL and Ruby. I know that I need more practice, but I really would like to set up a dictionary server for me and parts of my frenchclass. We could not find a good open source library for french->german, german->french. I would like to create a database, that would be able to be converted into a textfile, readable by ding, an open source, linux dictionary application. I have never started a database project before, so this is going to be fun. I’ll need a server that is available 24/7 or at least mostly. The amount of traffic will not be large, so I would be really happy if someone would offer me a user and one or two databases on his/her server. Since this is not very likely to happen, I will set up a low-end server by the end of the month and find some place for it.

Learning ruby is fun. I try to drag other people in it and some of them seem to be interested. I think I’m making progress in small steps and I’m looking forward to the integration of Ruby in The Gimp, so I some day maybe will be able to write Gimp extensions in Ruby.

related links:

Google soc The Gimp

Google soc Ruby central

Ding dictionary

Going to be one week away, visiting Nadine really happy to see her again. Hopefully going to take some photos down there, the landscape is absolutely overwhelming. Things I can do while travelling 9 hours by train: read my danish book for school, read Spieltrieb by Juli Zeh and draw. You miss something? Yes! My mp3player is broken! :/ Oh and I have to do some comission work in my holidays. I have got a tattoo design, 2 vector pics and one clan logo pending. I think this is great. Not because I have too much time, but because people want ME to illustrate or create something for them. It really makes me give my best. Besides I’m trying out Xara Xtreme some more (it really rocks) on a stock photo I found on dA, going to upload it when it is done. Right now I’m just packing my stuff.