Justin-Klein.com – Life of a Traveling Programmer – Page 65

Plugins: Guestbook and FB Connect

Mar 192010

As you can probably tell, my current “phase,” after finishing up this site’s overhaul, has involved cleaning up and open-sourcing as much of my custom web code as possible. This started with jKMLMap, as mentioned here, followed by Facebook Photo Fetcher a few days later. Then came the 3 Babylon glossaries I posted in the previous entry (OK, that’s not really web code – just something else I implemented over the last year that I felt others might benefit from). Finally I’ve completed the last two planned releases: WP-ViperGB and WP-FB AutoConnect. Continue reading »

Babylon Dictionary

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Mar 152010

Following up on my last post about autodidactic language learning, I thought I’d mention another piece of software I’ve found immensely helpful to my language studies: Babylon.

I’ve tried quite a few software dictionaries over the years and find Babylon to be far and away the best. Continue reading »

Autodidactic Language Learning

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Mar 122010

Shortly after taking up Mandarin Chinese early last year, I spent a bit of time reading up on Autodidactism.

I’ve long maintained that one of the most useful things I picked up throughout my formal Japanese language study was not the language itself, but rather how to learn languages in general. Once you understand the general principles of language instruction, advancing your ability – and even teaching yourself new languages from scratch – becomes easier and easier. Now that I’ve finished the Level 1 JLPT, made reasonable headway in Chinese, and taught myself more programming languages than I really care to think about, I’m absolutely convinced that the only true path to mastery of a subject is autodidactic learning. Continue reading »

WordPress-Facebook Gallery Plugin

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Mar 062010

Following up on this post, I’ve just completed and released my very first WordPress plugin, designed to allow bloggers to quickly and easily generate WordPress photo galleries from any Facebook album they can access. Continue reading »

JLPT 1Q

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Mar 032010

As many of you no doubt know, the JLPT – Japanese Language Proficiency Test – is pretty much the internationally recognized measure of Japanese language ability for nonnative speakers. Something like the TOEFL for students of English. It’s a four-level test, where level 4 is beginner and level 1 is “native.”*

What you may not yet know is that last year, Japan’s Ministry of Education announced that they’d be completely revising the the test in 2010.** Since its format has remained pretty much unchanged since 1984, this means that more than 20 years of accumulated textbooks, practice exams, and study materials are suddenly about to become obsolete. Or at least slightly less relevant. Continue reading »

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