Finally got around to theme-ing this blog. I've taken the default theme and stripped it down, then reset the css and started from there. Nothing fancy at all, just a bit more personalised and suitable for the subject matter I normally discuss. I fully expect there will be some things …
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chrss update 10
- lots of pagination
- can now browse moves and comments for all games
- added link to user's rss feed to the side bar when logged in
Also had a heart stopping moment when the changes for pagination weren't working, until I found out the the paginate decorator in Turbogears doesn't like …
3rd £5 App Meet
Tackling the travelling salesman problem: a little profiling
So after implementing hill-climbing, I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to use Python's profile module and see what the slow parts of the code were. To do this I set-up a basic hill-climb on the 100 city data set and then called the run method of profile:
import …
A little review courtesy of Sarah
Sarah's review of the open house is online on the BBC site now. Thanks for a great review Sarah!
Sarah was also attempting to get some video interviews, but I chickened out.
chrss update 9
Updated chrss yesterday:
- "open" games (an opponent needs no invitation needed to join)
- commenting on moves (for that extra bit of social interaction)
Tackling the travelling salesman problem: hill-climbing
This is the second part in my series on the "travelling salesman problem" (TSP). Part one covered defining the TSP and utility code that will be used for the various optimisation algorithms I shall discuss.
solution landscapes
A common way to visualise searching for solutions in an optimisation problem, such …
post 2nd £5 App
Last night was the 2nd of Ian and my £5 App Meet. Thanks to Alan and Raj for talking. Both talks were very enjoyable. Good work guys!
We tried out our job/announce board and had a few takers. We'll get to transcribing some of the postings later.
I was …
Private View
We had the open house's private view on Wednesday. I've got a few pictures online here. They are a bit haphazard. Think I need to get a better camera...
Open House at Kingscliffe Court
Finally finished framing my drawings for the open house:
Also the Artists Open Houses website has now been updated, so details for our open house can be seen here. "Made in littlespikeyland" being my part. It's open every Saturday in May for those who are interested.