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 …
Well yesterday we actually went and looked at the venue for the £5 App meet. Lovely regency era house that's being slowly renovated. Should prove to be an interesting place - just hope it's not too chilly on the night.
In terms of presenting my talk on chrss I've been investigating …
It's now called the "£5 App Meet" (rather than the $5 app meet) and if you want to attend please go on over to http://upcoming.org/event/163252/ and sign up.
It's being held at 13 Brunswick Square in Brighton on the 27th of March (which is a Tuesday …
Just tweaked some settings, so logins to chrss shouldn't expire for a couple of days - instead of after twenty minutes. It was getting annoying having to log in all the time...
Well today at work involved me using ConcurrentHashMap and in particular putIfAbsent to severely reduce the need for old-school synchronized blocks.
Just a shame that you can't pass in arbitrary expressions/blocks that will only be evaluated if the value isn't present when you call putIfAbsent. Might become feasible if …
Another minor update to chrss. Changes:
Other than that my losing streak continues. That game contained a move I immediately saw as being wrong after I did it, so I think one of …
Chess Enlightenment at xkcd.
It appears that I'm helping organise "$5 Apps - a new geek meet" with Ian. Should be interesting.
Planning on giving a talk about setting up chrss and Ian will be talking about ShowMeDo. With luck we'll get a few other people along to talk about their "$5 apps" in the …
Well I ended up not doing so well against Kennon in the end.
To be able to finish the game though I needed to add the ability to resign from a game. So now when you are logged in you will see a "resign" button (if it's your turn to …
