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Fun with FOLDOC

The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing does exactly what it says on the tin. It is available under the GNU Free Documentation License so I grabbed a copy of the archive (which expands to a 4MB text file) and had a go at dumping it in to a mySQL database. I haven’t done anything with it yet (apart from putting together a rudimentary interface) but I have a few ideas for interesting ways of reusing the data.

Posted 15th August 2002 at 2:39 pm

This is Fun with FOLDOC by Simon Willison, posted on 15th August 2002.

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An XMLRPC interface ! You know you want to :P
michel v - 15th August 2002 15:26 - #
You guessed it :) Actually I'm thinking about going the whole hog - XML-RPC, SOAP and REST as well. Should be fun.
Simon - 15th August 2002 16:26 - #
I would try SOAP, especially since I managed to grab pretty much all of PEAR on my local server, but I'd need an API to implement in order to learn. I learned XMLRPC by implementing the blogger API, now I wonder what kind of SOAP API I could implement...
michel v - 15th August 2002 17:14 - #

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