The Dictionary of Dan

[Mazer]

Aight people-- er, poleop I mean--, it should be quite clear that I will almost never get around to updating the book of typos regularly, so I've decided to follow in Microsofts footsteps and just open source it.
The Definitive Dictionary of Dan (note, there are no definitions, I just say 'definitive' to make it sound cool).
Wikipedia is pretty cool...

[Paul]

Well, I added a new word "dictrionay"

[Mazer]

Way to set an example, Paul. +50 exp points.

[Mazer]

It seems some piss chugger needs to be dragged into the street and shot. The old dictionary is still up here.

[Paul]

sh!t! some one deleted it! maybe someone can look in their cache?

[jonos]

I added it using the source of the old one. I don't keep a cache, sorry.

[Tony]

it's gone again I don't think it was the brightest idea to keep it compleatly open sourced

[Amailer]

you mean you could delete the whole damm thing???? that's bs.. i thought you could only add and edit your own :S

[Tony]

no, cuz when you click edit, you can edit the entire html source...

no don't go running around, messing up their entire site

[jonos]

Everything bad gets filtered out really quickly anyways. Someone on the site probably just thought it was spam and deleted it.

I have seen completely innaccurate information added and then deleted in the spam of 5 minutes on that site.

And not everything is open source on that site - the topic on Israel is locked because of the lack of neutrality.

[SuperGenius]

Good idea guys. Mabye you could put it on this site so you have control over it and "piss chuggers" wont erase it.

[axej]

did you manage to get it up again? i don't see it anymore. wikipedia is a control freak's worst nightmare.

[rizzix]

i have a webservice setup... you can acces dan's dictionary from there..
i'll post the details later..

[axej]

thanks, i feel like seeing it 8)

[rizzix]

ok its an xmlrpc webservice (there are a lot of tutorials on how to use xmlrpc webservices (in various languages) on this website)

Info:

host_url:

http://rizzix.superihost.com/xmlrpc.cgi

methods_provided:

dan.anti_spell_check(string) dan.spell_check(string)

example:

Java:

//  TestClient.java //  Created by rizzix on Tue Feb 04 2003. import org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClientLite; import java.util.Vector; public class TestClient {     public static void main(String[] args) {         try {             XmlRpcClientLite server;                         server = new XmlRpcClientLite(                 "http://rizzix.superihost.com/xmlrpc.cgi"             );                         String result; Vector params = new Vector();                         params.addElement("power to the people");             result = (String) server.execute("dan.spell_check", params);                         System.out.println("dan.spell_check(\""+params.elementAt(0)+"\") ==> " + result);                     } catch (Exception e) {             System.out.println(e.getMessage());         }     } }