Category Archives: Java
Sudokit Evolving
I’ve added some new solving techniques, a small puzzle database, and a rating system (not shown). I’ve also been doing some research, and discovered several other techniques I need to implement, though they are too esoteric to show up in … Continue reading
Sudoku Kit
I’ve started putting together a little app for solving Sudoku puzzles. Sudoku is the logic puzzle game that is supposedly sweeping Japan (though the two people from Japan that I’ve asked had never heard of Sudoku) and is now common … Continue reading
Timestamp vs. Date on compareTo
I made another update to the JSPWiki JDBC Providers after a user was getting errors mixing the JDBC page provider with a different, non-JDBC attachment provider. The weird thing is that I have the same mixing in the wikis I … Continue reading
JDBC Providers Updated
I actually got some feedback from a couple of users of my JDBC Providers contribution to JSPWiki, and I’ve updated the page provider accordingly. There is some question about the overall design, which I adopted from an earlier database page … Continue reading
JSPWiki Migration Page Provider
I’ve contributed a migration page provider to JSPWiki. The engine supports a variety of page providers that handle the storage and retrieval of page contents from whatever store you want to use. This provider is really just a proxy for … Continue reading
JDBC Providers for JSPWiki 2.2.8
When I first encountered the creatively named JSPWiki two years ago, I thought it strange that the server relies on the file system for storing its content. JSPWiki is very extensible and I found a simple database page provider plug-in … Continue reading
XBoard and GNU4J
I realized I could run XBoard on my Mac within X11 and let it talk to chessbox_gnu4j via the command line Continue reading