Archive for December, 2005

Sudoku Solver for your Google Home Page

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

Now that Google have release documentation on how to write widgets (or “modules”) for the Google Home Page, it seemed only logical to port the Sudoku Solver across.

So, you can now sign into your Google home page, read the headlines, check your stock quotes, check the weather, and solve that Sudoku you were working on during the trainride in!

You can find the details here. As the page discusses, we (AITC) have some plans for a more fully featured Sudoku “workshop” in this format. But, in the spirit of “release early, release often”, we’ve decided to make this simple version available now.

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My Sudoku Solver can also take calls…

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

AITC has just made available the first version of “Sudokulet” – a Sudoku solver (and player) written in J2ME which, for the layperson, means you can run it on your Java-enabled mobile phone. At last, a use for the pesky mobile phone!

You can get it from http://www.asman-it.com.au/products.html.

Its an early version, but hopefully some people will find it useful, or at least entertaining for a short while…. :)

(And the observant will notice that the 6 year old Asman IT website has changed its look. I can’t really claim its changed for the better, but at least its different! And, thanks to the complete absence of colour, should you ever choose to print out a page, you won’t run out of one particular colour in your print cartridge ;) )

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Farewall interactivity

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Anyone who knows me will know thats it not such a good idea to try and set your watch by the regularity of my blog postings… ;) My enthusiasm (and spare time!) kind of comes and goes…

Nontheless, I spend at least a couple of minutes a day on my blog. Why? *&^*&^Y&*&^ Spam comments! Even though 99% of the comments go to moderation (depriving them of their valuable link count for search rankings), I still need to go in and clean them up. What seems to happen is their automated tools post an innocuous comment like “test” (which gets through the comment spam filter), and when they see that postings go online, they hammer away adding link after link (which goes straight into limbo, awaiting moderation).

When I have an infinite amount of spare time, I might try and get some captchas working. In the meantime, comments are now turned off. :(

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