go!

done

hi folks

bow-chicka-wow-wow! :)

Nice n' easy.....

done

Hungry?

Ravenous! What's on the menu?

You old dog! You finally surfaced!

Old??????

I'm dumbfounded, I must confess

Confess away, it's good for the soul

I may even have lost my appetite

Do you want someone to go and look for it?

Could it be, Poocheroonie, That you've missed me?

'Fess up now.

Don't be afraid

My flabber is gasted

OK PlumpyWumpy, I am jealous of Andy (who is not here to defend himself)

Oh, Poochie!

I swoon!

So what is for breakfast?

I fear I have the vapours.

Is that like having gas?

Oh dear no, it's a hunger of the soul

Perhaps Soul Amandine would satisfy?

Don't be harsh, Poochie, I'm delicate

So is sole, it is a very delicate fish

Fragile

Brittle

You must be gentle

A gentle man

Softly, softly

I still need breakfast

Bye

Leaving so soon?

done

Done! Beatcha, Poochie!

go

Difficulty score 26. Interesting for an easy.

Go brittlefish go!

i am i am

Ack, ftp hung again!

sudoku through ftp. interesting.

must be ftp 2.0

go

Not Sudoku, just trying to update my table of iron sudoku difficulty scores.

i jest. should remember the :)

My web site host has a slick web page management interface, but the old ftp is much quicker when it works.

Just checked the version, it's (GNU inetutils) 1.3.2

But I see the same problem when using the Microsoft ftp supplied with XP, so maybe it's the ftp server on my web host.

:) I was making a (bad) joke about all the Web 2.0 silliness. Like Ftp 2.0 with Ajax opens up things like sudoku. You know, a bad tech joke.

Okay, I get it, I think.

I'm still just learning about web design, JavaScript, PHP and XHTML. I should probably get a primer on http and cgi.

So I haven't gotten to web 2.0!

still learning? your website is very impressive.

Thank you.

You obviously don't use IE 6.0.

FF 2.0.0.whatever (IE only under duress)

But I haven't reached the level of brittlefish.com

I rather like IE, from a web designer perspective, it's about the easiest browser to get things to work on.

I hope you don't drop to that level. :) WordPress and some theme hacking isn't anything to write home about.

IE (esp. IE6) was built to forgive the coder, but that creates all sorts of difficulties with cross-browser CSS

IE 7.0 is more tolerant of bad HTML than all the others I test on, which is a good thing. But it has no idea what to do with XHTML when served with the proper MIME ti

... MIME type.

the autofill script had me going nuts with IE6 until i figured out loading a cross-domain script within a bookmarklet to get around the size limit.

IE7 is much better

That was a cool hack. Did you originate the whole thing, or improve something you found.

i was using it with something else, but it took a while before i realized it might solve the IE6 autofill problem

Ok. But I was wondering if you originated the autofill script too?

oh, no. i lifted the original autofill that was here a year or so ago, and reworked it to do the greens and reds, but like the other one, it didn't work in IE6. drove me nuts until i realized the code wasn't broken, IE6 just wasn't loading it all.

Buffer size limits. I hate when that happens.

yeah. originally i just wanted more variety. like the g+r thing, clearnotes() to remove the greens/reds, and a solveit() which i didn't document just for fun.

oh yeah, and gautofill() for the traditionalists :)

I think Jawilke did a solve-it which just steals the solution from the IronSudoku JavaScript.

what's cool is that you can run them without being logged in. handy for testing. :)

Being relatively new to JavaScript, how did the first hacker get the internals of the IronSudoku JavaScript? FF JavaScript console won't display it, will it?

http://ironsudoku.com/js/sudoku.js

view source on ironsudoku.com, and it imports that script

Ah, yes, just find the source. Which is another thing I need to learn, how to make things like that secure and unaccessible to hackers!

another handy thing is FireBug. and by handy, i mean almost indispensable.

the problem with web apps is that you can't make it secure without enormous gyrations.

anything you want secure, you make server-side

Thanks bf, I just downloaded FireBug. I have a problem right now that it might help me solve.

it's great. one note, if you use gmail, they recommend you disable it for that domain for performance reasons.

so, that probably also applies to other complex sites as well. if you need to snoop on their code, just enable when you need it.

Thanks again. I have a gmail address but rarely use it. Makes sense to only enable FireBug when you need it.

np. what's behind the scenes of the solver? cgi?

All JavaScript for the online version.

When I do learn cgi, I probably will add a cgi interface to the C program I originally wrote.

interesting. now that read your explanation on your website, it makes sense. i found the g+r autofill logic to be not too far from iteratively solving a lot of the puzzles.

I think your g-r autofill logic should highlight most of the solutions you can get by cross-hatching too.

Or it could with very little modification.

yeah, i had to back off from taking it further. i had it filling in the 1 potentials (i mean, duh), or played with circling them or using a different color. also just doing another pass started pushing it into the solver / cheating realm, and when i posted it someone was on here having kittens. saying i was a big fat cheater. so i just left it as is.

oh, and done.

WTG. I must have slowed you down a bit.

you're right about it being an interesting easy, but the programming talk was more interesting. :)

Bye all. It's snowing here and the weatherman says we are going to be buried. So, it will probably be nothing, but just in case, I'm going to get some things done while I can.

done no greens - very easy - bye all !

go

done.. no greens.. but very slow

we have the same storm, dr who... I"M iced in for the day

start

done

that was like quicksand

start

Go.

done

Done, no greens.

17 minutes. Hmm, I'm getting down to the range of daily crossword puzzles.

and.... go