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development of sudoku related websites

Just another day

Page hits broke a records again. More than 300 hits per day, and rising!

Got 2 requests for syndication. 8000 Sudokus are now ready for syndication, with difficulty levels 2 and 3. Text version to retrieve it with getdailyrated.php is operational.

Did a few responses on the sudoku programmer forum. Makes me sad that almost nobody replies to questions by newcomers. They probably forgot they were once a newbie themselves.

sudocue.com

Noticed this weekend that somebody registered the sudocue.com domain and turned it into a bloody link list. sudocue.info was also claimed, but as a freebee by the registrar.

Well, who cares. Let them have their free ride. Peope who are looking for the quality stuff know where to find me on www.sudocue.net

Sudopedia authors missing

I still have to write the bulk of the articles myself in Sudopedia. My appeals on the major Sudoku forums did not work. Probably another case of the not-invented-here syndrome.

If neccessary, I will write the whole damn thing myself, but then I will change the license and keep it copyrighted.

Hosting tests

Because of performance problems with my hosting company, I tried to set up my own host. Getting IIS to work was unsuccessful, so I had to look for other options, or try to fit it.

So, now I installed Apache 2.0 and it works like a charm. Took me a little tweaking to integrate it with PHP. Also installed a simple FTP server and that works too.

Gonna open it to the www with a new domain name. Dunno what to put on this domain, probably only a website-under-construction page.

Got a lot of good feedback on the Dailies

It looks like more and more people are discovering these dailies. I get hits from unexpected referrers, only to discover that my dailies are subject of discussion for days.

Now I’ll have to wait and see what the Sudopedia will do. If if becomes a sucess, it will generate a lot of traffic to my other sites.

So now I’ve done it again

Just registered the domain sudopedia.org. Too good to be true.

 I set up a mediawiki installation and configured it, so articles can be submitted. It was, of course, this blog that gave me the idea.

 I posted attention messages on the busiest 3 forums, so let’s see what happens. This could make writing a solving manual on www.sudocue.net completely obsolete.

Yes!

A nice link

The daily nightmare is now featured on my links page. A new page syndicate.php with its own css file shows the daily nightmare scaled down to 176 pixels in width. It now fits nicely in a column on the links page.