Psychic Origami

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 …

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 …

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 …

Just done:

• user account creation now does email validation (more useful for myself)
• ordering rss entries in date order (as some rss readers seem to display entries in the order the entries appear in the file), to ensure most recent moves appear first

TODO:

• move confirmation (probably just with javascript …

Over Christmas and evenings in January I've been working on a side project: chrss.

It's a correspondence chess web application. There are plenty of options for playing chess online (whether in realtime or via correspondence), but I felt the urge to "roll my own". This was a large part due …