Riding the wind of rebirth

When the computing center was first established, we stayed up late and worked a lot of overtime. Zhou Zhi was worried that everyone would be hungry, so he specially set aside a room to stock snacks such as biscuits, instant noodles, ham, sausage, pickled vegetables, peanuts, and dried tofu.

Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "The conditions were too difficult at that time, but they are better now. With our constant fuss, the computing center opened its own small canteen, and there are also people on the night shift serving hot food."

"Who is making a fuss? I don't think anyone else is making a fuss. You are the only one making a fuss." Gu Kailai rolled his eyes again.

"I am also conveying public opinion, but they forced me to do so." Zhou Zhi said shamelessly. After connecting the hard drive, he quickly started operating it while introducing the new functions of several software upgrades to LiuGong.

Software version control itself is also an important part of software engineering. Currently, Huaqing Garden and Shu University are not connected to the Internet, and both sides are doing their own development. Version differences will soon appear.

Although Zhou Zhi has repeatedly asked both parties to strictly control, they can only achieve consistent baseline standards and then open up a "customized area" for each party. Every three months, the two parties must conduct a version report and compare the source code of the customized area. Analyze and uniformly append to the "baseline area" to form a unified new baseline version.

This is a very troublesome thing, and it also suppresses the genius of programmers, but as a large team, it must be able to control, manage, and fight. This is also a necessary measure.

What Zhou Zhi disliked the most back then was all kinds of rules and regulations. Now that the position under his butt is different, he moved out all the rules and regulations from back then and felt it was very necessary.

Everyone worked around themselves and didn’t have too much to talk about. They asked the general manager about management and Liugong about technology. Zhou Zhi’s mouth couldn’t be idle at all.

Soon the new baseline version was tied up, Zhou Zhou switched to the customization area, and adjusted the card reading program here.

Because the character cards made by the two senior brothers are different from the Hanwen standard format made by Feng Xueshan, it is necessary to change the scanning area and adjust the sharpness of the picture;
And because it is regular script and official script, it is necessary to transfer the regular script character roots and official script character roots into the comparison database.

The proportions of the knotted characters in the two calligraphy styles are also different from those in boldface, so the font proportions need to be prepared.

All of this combined is the reverse engineering of Cai Zi, which adjusts the scanning recognition program that recognizes boldface to a scanning recognition program that can recognize regular script and official script.

The function of the scanning recognition program has been expanded. In the future, this new program will be added to the baseline area and become part of the new version.

Liu Gong sat next to Zhou Zhi as a reviewer. Because the need was urgent, an on-site review mechanism was adopted in accordance with the rules and regulations.

"The compilation passed in one go!" Liu Gong looked at the thoughtful and deft movements and precise results, and couldn't help but admire: "The elbow is really amazing!"

"It's just some small adjustments, don't take them seriously." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Try it?"

"I'll do the rest."

The Engineering Transformation Center has a film scanner with the highest resolution and fastest scanning speed. The working principle is to photograph the word cards into film and then scan the film.

This is also done to improve efficiency. Shooting in large batches and then scanning the film together is far faster than a flatbed scanner that can only read one word card at a time and takes at least 20 seconds to read one card. It is countless times faster .

Putting the font card film into the scanner, LiuGong began to operate the software, which is what everyone most often calls "running the program."

Soon, the process LOG appeared on the terminal screen, prompting every step of the scanner's work.

On a terminal next to him, Zhou Zhi called up the monitoring and debugging screens of each program so that the senior comrades who came over could see the progress of the work.

The first step is to scan and scan the graphical text into the area to be recognized.The second step is radical matching, finding the radical used in the text, and then converting the radical into the corresponding standard boldface radical.

The third step is to match the knot structure. According to the knot rules of the corresponding font, the corresponding positions of the text roots are marked into numerical coordinates.

The fourth step is to combine the bold vectorized standard root and word ending rules to form a new vector text.

The fifth step is to define various tags such as radicals for the vector words that are to be newly stored in the database, so that they can be used for subsequent statistical analysis and other work.

The last step is encoding. According to the label definition of the new character, it is given a unique UNICODE code through the encoding algorithm, and then the new character is stored in the font library according to the code bit of the encoding. The work is completed.

It is normal to encounter bugs during the process, but Zhou Zhi and Liu Gong are both masters and can adjust the program in minutes so that the process can continue.

Gu Kailai is nominally the leader of the working group, but he has always grasped the big progress and direction before. This is the first time he has seen a word with his own eyes, and "ran" from writing on the word card to the word library step by step. He can't help but feel novel.

Even he found it magical, let alone his two senior brothers, Leng Yulong and Wei Yixin.

Zhou Zhi opened the text editing software and switched to the Hanwen input method: "Now we have the newly added (wooden boat) character in our font library. Can you two brothers try it?"

"I'll do it." Leng Yulong said excitedly. He sat down on the seat given by Zhou Zhi and entered the three letters NAN. He flipped through the word selection box of the input method and finally found the word (wooden boat). The digital index number, and the word (wooden boat) jumped on the screen. "

"Hahahaha..." Leng Yulong was very happy: "So this is how the font was created!"

"This is just the working principle. We can only play around in the custom area to verify the feasibility." Zhou Zhi smiled: "The specific actual work must follow strict software engineering management rules and regulations, and there are many procedures."

"Isn't this a delay? It can be used now." Leng Yulong was a little puzzled by this approach.

"Without process documents and non-compliance with international standards, our products cannot apply for international patents, and others can snatch them away at will." Zhou Zhi patiently explained: "Today is just a small attempt, but for a large-scale software project, like this Small changes, that's thousands, maybe hundreds, thousands of people working on it at the same time."

"If there is no engineering management control and everyone is doing their own thing, there will be chaos."

This is what Zhou Zhi in the engineering team focuses on, and this is where the most problems are found.

If you ask an engineering technician to write a program, he can work overtime and stay up all night, but if you ask him to write a documentation, it may be like killing him.

Therefore, if we get the opportunity, Zhou Zhi will definitely do some popular science for everyone and ask everyone to pay attention to it.

After I popularized the concept of engineering management with my senior brother for a while, another Chinese character in official script was also completed for storage verification.

In other words, after simple parameter adjustment and program upgrade, the Chinese character cards of "Chinese Character Sea" can be used as basic character cards for use by the recognition program of "Han Character Library".

"So our character cards can be used?" Zhou Zhi and Liu Gong worked on it for a long time, and no one else could understand it. Wei Yixin asked anxiously: "What should we do next?"