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February 19, 2006
Bringing a programmer to a computer and making him work
Its been a busy week for our JavaScript programmer David. As our deadlines were approaching Lydia and I decided that the only way to get the JavaScript Sudoku front-end working in time would be to sit him down at my computer and then feed him for the time it took to complete the task.
He arrived on Wednesday evening after suffering from severe conjunctivitis in one eye that same morning. The day before he escorted a friend to hospital because a kiln dropped on his foot... so, by this time we had had enough of these distractions and told him to come to our house for a distraction-free evening at the computer focused on one thing only.
After a night and a day of coffee, beer and honey and lemon drinks on tap, David had made some good headway with the programming work. There were no "cool" little functions that had no use, just the Sudoku game play area that we wanted.
I'll be posting all the details about the new Sudoku tool when the daily Sudoku is launched at Sudoku Solver.
Posted by Nahoo at 04:14 PM | Comments (1)
February 01, 2006
Munich
If you wonder why I will be seeing many films on a Wednesday, it is because of the "Orange Wednesday" offer where you get 2 tickets for the price of 1. Even bad films seem better if you only pay half the normal price.
Just returned from seeing "Munich" with Lydia and this was not a bad film at all. For me, it was making a point to show that the life of an assassin is really a less-than-glamorous life in reality. The group sent on a mission to take out the ring-leaders of the Munich kidnapping are continually put into dangerous situations more of their own making and less of their targets'.
The film poses quite a few unresolved questions that needed to be left unresolved (unlike countless other Hollywood platters) giving the viewer a chance to find their own views on the effectiveness of revenge.
Posted by Nahoo at 11:42 PM | Comments (1)