So, what have I been up to?

[rhu]

We just (as in 2 minutes ago) released the latest version of Adobe Buzzword. And so now I can talk about the feature I've been working on for the last two months:

Buzzword now offers spell-checking in 19 different languages (well, not quite 19 languages, because that's counting national variants such as US vs UK English, and temporal variants such as pre-1996 and post-1996 German, as separate entries). And I personally wrote all 19 dictionaries. Well, no, of course not, but I did quite a bit of work against a short schedule to implement an efficient spell-checking library in Flash for us to use.

I'm proud of the work that I did, and I'm really excited to have been able to contribute a feature that will make lots of users happy -- and to do so in such a short time after starting at Adobe.

Comments

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

Any idea what changed in German spelling in 1996?

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

Nevermind. The internet knows all. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_spelling_reform_of_1996

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

There was a spelling reform, and the government required schools to start teaching using the new spellings. But, as with most spelling reforms, most people preferred to keep on with the old ways.