Psychic Origami

Another one for the open house.

Just a quick note to say that the 2nd £5 App Meet is on upcoming now and will be held on Tuesday May the 8th. See Ian's blog for more details about the two talks we have lined up.

This is the first part in my series on the “travelling salesman problem” (TSP). An outline of what I plan to cover can be seen in the prologue.

To kick things off here's a quick quote:

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) asks for the shortest route to visit a collection …

Two more... Hopefully there'll be a few more after these too.

The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic combinatorial optimisation problem. It also happens to be a problem I have spent various parts of my life looking at.

At my first job out of uni we worked on solving real-world problems that usually involved the TSP in some fashion. Often …

Few minor background tweaks, but the major new feature in this upgrade is that you can now get an aggregated rss feed for all of a user's games. e.g.:

/chrss/user/lilspikey/rss

Is the rss feed for all of my games. If you are playing several games (as …

Well last night and today saw me performing a similar feat as last saturday, except I was wielding pencils, inks, gouache and brushes this time around. I'm part of an open house for the fringe festival in May and given it's April tomorrow I thought I'd best get working. There …

So I've now uploaded the results of the saturday morning code-a-thon. This means that you can now browse all of the previous moves and they also have a convenient URL. So if you want to show someone a move that you thought was particularly good/bad you can just send …

So last night I presented chrss to the people gathered for the inaugural £5 app meet. We had a reasonable number turn up - thanks to everyone who came along. I probably didn't talk to everyone, but it was a good crowd.

For some reason I seem to be getting up early at the moment and coding. Just had a pretty good intense coding session and managed to get a whole load of stuff done to chrss. So good when you get that feeling of "flow".

So needs testing before I deploy …