Psychic Origami

I've generally speaking been a fairly good boy when it comes to writing unit tests for chrss, but I know I haven't covered everything. Most of the focus has been on the underlying chess module, so I thought I'd best have a look and see what my actual unit test …

Just upgraded the £5app site to include a blog. Pretty easy to throw together using Django. It'll need some refining, but the site is proving to be a nice easy way to get familiar with Django.

Generic views (in particular the date views) helped a lot. Also managed to figure …

This update includes a fairly major refactoring of chrss's chess engine. It should make it easier to add new features in the future.

Beyond that the only (noticeable) new feature is that you can now get the Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) for a game. This is a standard format for describing …

With dConstruct just over a week away I've received my moo cards with plenty of time to spare.

All of the designs are from illustrations/paintings I've done, so at least they are nice and personal. I could have done with spending a bit more time in Photoshop before hand …

An assortment of sketches from my moleskine. In order - a sneaky sketch of my sister, several drawings from Istanbul (which I visited with a friend earlier in the year), a rough acrylic of Heather and a sketch of Lolita (Heather's sister's dog) from Barcelona:

Just a quick note. Chrss has now been moved to http://chrss.co.uk/. I've setup redirects from the old site on psychic origami, so it should just happen naturally. Thought I'd best just make note of it here though too (in case anyone was wondering).

After finding some more spare time fivepoundapp.com is now running on Django.

Features that can be seen include an rss feed for the next meetup and some microformats splashed around.

Beyond that the main reason for the move was to gain Django's admin interface. Beats hacking html by hand …

Another red haired girl. Sticking to same style/colours etc as previously. Think this might end up being a series of very similar paintings, which hopefully will let me slowly improve my technique with each one.

More additions to chrss:

• displaying English tool-tips/hover-overs for moves
• confirmation of move now describes the move to be made in English
• number of games that it is your turn to move now displayed when logged in
• "diagram" link to chessup.net for current game board (as well as when …