We’re ready and rearin’ to head out tomorrow for Orlando Florida and the Chinese Language Teachers Association conference. We’ll be gone until next Monday, but I’ll try to keep everyone up to date with regular …
Kittens For All
Up until now, how things have been scheduled has been pretty simple. No longer! I’ve set up the beginnings of a dynamic scheduling algorithm that adjusts based on your own abilities. I’m going to see …
Downtime tonight
We’re taking the site down tonight from 1am – 3am EST (GMT-5). (That’s Monday morning). This is for a bit of maintenance work and stroke order corrections. [Update] The maintenance is taking longer than expected. …
The Infant
I’ve put up the first version of the Infant, which is the audio prompt system. When you do the tone on a character, the Infant will pronounce it. If you’re not scheduled to practice the …
Some downtime tonight
App Engine got some upgrades tonight, which broke several parts of Skritter, since 9:00 p.m. EDT. We’ve patched it up locally, but there’s still some troubles over there preventing us from uploading the fixes. I’ll …
More Funding
Well, for the past week I’ve been working on putting together a funding presentation for Lorain County Community College’s Innovation Fund. Today we went up and gave the presentation and it went generally pretty well …
Get Satisfaction
I’m mauling on bugs, adding tiny featurettes, and making things faster. Meanwhile, I’ve added a new feedback widget from Get Satisfaction, which you may or may not like better than the old contact page. Give …
Eccentricity optional
As one user points out, some of the crazy messages you get when you get something right can be pretty… crazy. They’re now opt-in, incarnate as the “Eccentric Flavor” option in the preferences page. I’ve …
Control thy strictness
I’ve finally created a way for users to control the strictness of the handwriting recognition. Underneath the Ignore button, there’s now a Strictness button. You can lower the strictness of recognition if you think it’s …
Smarmier feedback
I’m testing out some additional feedback measures, including notification when hooked strokes are missing hooks, a less-harsh blue border for getting things wrong that you don’t even know yet, more and smarmier “You win it!” …