Emil’s Chronicle - The journal of Emil A Eklund

Archive for September, 2006

Going to Google

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

A few months ago I accepted a job offer from Google. Starting next week I’ll be working for them.
For the last couple of months I’ve been busy finalizing my work at Basset, completing the projects I’ve been involved in and handing over my responsibilities. While Basset has been treating me well during the five or […]

SpellingCow followup

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Just got the following message from Craig Nuttall, the creator of SpellingCow, as a comment to my LiteSpellChecker post:

Hello All. Right now I am spell checking this message as I type. I am the creator of SpellingCow ( http://www.spellingcow.com ). I would like to thank Emil for his hard work as he inspired my creation. […]

SpellingCow

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Browsed slashdot earlier today, and saw a post about SpellingCow, a remotely hosted ajax spell checker.
My initial reaction was “cool, someone picked up on my ajax spell checker idea and made something useful out of it”.
However as soon as I tried it I noticed a remarkable resemblance to the LiteSpellChecker component I wrote, as a […]