An API to Check Spelling and Grammar

Raphael Mudgeraffi@automattic.com

Overview What is After the Deadline

Adding AtD into your App

Resources

Overview What is After the Deadline

Adding AtD into CiviCRM

Resources

What is AtD? A software service, checks:Spelling, misused words,

style, and grammar

Front-end components

A tool to aid your users

Who should use AtD?

Content Management Systems

User Generated Content Sites

Web Office Suites

Where people write!

What is AtD? A software service, checks:

What is AtD? A software service, checks:

What is AtD? A software service, checks:

What is AtD? A software service, checks:

Grammar Checker The error:I wonder if this is your

companies way of providing support?

Grammar Checker The error:I wonder if this is your

companies way of providing support?

Grammar Checker The error:I wonder if this is your

companies way of providing support?

The rule:Pattern: your .*/NNSSuggestion: your \1:possessive

Grammar CheckerHow AtD sees the sentence: I/PRP wonder/VBP if/IN this/DT is/VBZ

your/PRP$ companies/NNS way/NN of/IN providing/VBG support/NN

How AtD sees it:your companies way = 0.000004%your company's way = 0.000030%

How it works

Integrating AtD AtD speaks an XML protocol

Front-end plugins for: jQuery TinyMCE CKEditor

Portable to other editors

and…

Caveat Emptor AtD works with CiviCRM but…CKEditor plugin needs

workAdding AtD is a hacky

process

How to add AtDStep 1: Install CKEditor Plugin

cd civicrm/packages/ckeditor

wget http://…/atd-ckeditor.tgz

tar zxvf atd-ckeditor.tgz

How to add AtDStep 2: Edit ckeditor.php

cd civicrm/packages/HTML

cd QuickForm

vi ckeditor.php

How to add AtD

ServerOpen Source – GPL

Modify proxy.php in AtD CKeditor plugin to change

Places to use AtD In the browser Firefox Extension Bookmarklet for

IE/Safari/FF

WordPress

IntenseDebate

Resourceshttp://

www.afterthedeadline.com

AtD software

http://blog.afterthedeadline.com

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mailto: raffi@automattic.com

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In summary… What is After the Deadline

Adding AtD into your App

Resources

Resourceshttp://

www.afterthedeadline.com

AtD software

http://blog.afterthedeadline.com

Find this presentation

mailto: raffi@automattic.com

My email, I don’t bite.