It’s been long time ago when I decided to build an online collection of dictionaries and after much effort novadict.com has come online finally during this national day vacation. Thanks to those who helped me around the internet and it didn’t take too much time to make this possible.
All the resources were gathered from internet and the only additional work was to clean up the data and make a user interface. What I was proud about was that the data I’ve gathered are very detailed and comprehensive and novadict.com is very competitive to be the biggest online collection of dictionaries ever in history (Note that only Simplified Chinese and English related terms are opened for the time being).
Due to large datasets have to serve and very limited hardware capacity (only 180MB RAM and limited CPU resource), novadict.com can’t be stable. Lots of optimization work has been done including specialized term searching index and hash based key-value storage engine, and it was still a very challenging job to make any improvements within such limited environment. It also has affected my standalone blog site hosted on the same box.
One of the reasons why I created novadict.com is the open and share spirit, though it is still much of personal interests. Hopefully novadict.com could be helpful to you. Have fun.












