Thoughts and Ramblings

General things I find of interest.

Text Compression Code Released

After it’s original post, I got a request for the code I used in my text compression technique. I’ve not gotten around to cleaning up the code and separating it from it’s test environment so it can be distributed separately. You can read more about it in its own page. Sometime soon, I’ll get around to releasing my code for fetching old Escape Pod episodes that I hinted at earlier.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Saturday, July 17, 2010

Text Compression Techniques

A friend of mine develops on an Bible application for the iPhone, BibleXpress. Since his application includes several translations with the app, he once mentioned to me the possibility of compressing them to save space. Any compression that is done must achieve a good ratio, but more importantly, decompression must be fast. I took it upon myself to find a compression algorithm that could fit the bill. In my test case, I worked with the NASB translation of the Bible.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Wednesday, July 29, 2009