Category Archives: sudocue.net

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Easies uploaded

I uploaded a few thousand easy sudokus into my site database. They are easy because they only require singles to solve. They are also a heartache because they were selected for slow solving paths. The best one requires 26 rounds of solving. I will put these on my Dutch support site, and report availability to my syndicated sites.

Written a mail to a young sudoku site maker about invalid sudokus. Hope it does not scare him off.

A new top listing for Sudokus has emerged. I submitted sudocue.net and it went straight to the top. Now the pressure to come with the top 9×9 has eased a little. This looks like a good listing.

Syndication

Syndication is ready. Sudokus can be retrieved from the site in various grades on a daily basis, the solution can be shown, with a choice of retrieving it in a text string or frame it in a page. I even set up a setup page to verify the frame settings and immediatly see the result. I’m really getting good at this stuff.

There are already 2 people ready to implement it. They will beta test it. Others should wait before they check out frametest.php.

Finally got a weapon against these stupid sites like www.free-sudokus.com, who pretend to deliver a daily sudoku, but deliver daily rubbish with (counted again today) 242 solutions to a single puzzle.

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.

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.

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.