playr.co.uk/sudoku

Previous Changes

19th April 2006

• Flash solver updated to 1.14
• Compact flash solver updated to 1.14
• All version of solvers now support save and load
• Save and load buttons added to website
• Puzzle library added to home page for registered users
• We have nearly 50 registered accounts on the system now!
• Added google adwords to the front page of the site, might make it pay for itself
• Made official changeover to playr.co.uk/sudoku site now
• Changed behaviour of delete key, to not move to next cell, same as with adding numbers in. Easier to navigate this way

24th February 2006

• Don't really know where to begin! So many changes...
• Entire site facelifted, seems more web 2.0, more spaced out, cleaner, less faff. Nice. Green.
• Started work on The Speedoku League, time-based challenge solving. Solve faster, earn more points, move up the leader board. Play often to win!
• Large changes to the way puzzles are printed out, slightly smaller but can easily fit four on a page.
• Printed puzzles now in stark black and white, for clearer printing.
• Added PDF option, to give any puzzle as a downloadable PDF.
• Added email function, to send daily puzzles by email to people.
• Corrected a small grammatical error in X-Wing, thanks to Jay Murphy
• New solving methods added, just links to the pages for the moment.
• Working in multiple page PDF books of the puzzles that have been done in a month
• PDF output matches email output, matches print output. Nice.
• HTML solver now highlights the current cell, easier to use.
• Builtin help function, now has a nice popup window for various help items.
• Tweaked the DB a bit more to remove some very slow queries, and as a result the entire server runs much quicker :)
• Added PDF book creation
• PDF books now cached, so they shouldn't need to be rebuilt each time
• Syndication screens now fit in more and look nice
• Newer and prettier buttons and banner bar from Tom Wiltshire
• A4, A5, 6x9 PDF books now available
• And so much more that I've lost track...

9th February 2006

• Fixed some glitches with the multi-print page, where the google ads would not hide when printed
• Went through every single puzzle in the database, checking for incorrect solutions that were input by the generation script possibly mangling the puzzle/solution pair.

16th December 2005

• Some minor tweaks to hidden features of the flash solver... ;)
• Flash solver now at v1.10
• Syndication now supports debugging
• Syndication now supports deferred execution being on or off
• Syndication now supports opening in a new or the same window, when a puzzle is completed
• Clicking on an example colour on the colour picker picks that colour
• Clicking on an text box for the colour on the colour picker picks that colour

8th December 2005

• Created smaller version of syndication solver.
• Changed to flash satay method of movie embedding, not with preloader though.

6th December 2005

• Enhanced the look of the solver with more readable numbers, pencilmarks and candidates.
• Flash moved up to version 8.
• Syndication service moved to version 8.

5th December 2005

• Added firefox button to left bar, made them the same size
• More terms into the dictionary
• Added swordfish definition to the library
• Added keywords to all the solving techniques, link straight to the dictionary

28th November 2005

• Half a million puzzles in the database!
• Index page now redirects to index.php, should help Google tracking
• Added a Google search box to the site

26th November 2005

• Much more spiffy error message in the JS syndication service, now more than just a crappy bit of text, contains a link to the site.
• Corrected the popup message for Danish, had some problems displaying the funny characters, now converted to octal.
• Added counter for syndicate puzzles solved
• Syndicate puzzle can now bounce to the main site on completion
• Best every day yesterday! 4500 puzzles!

25th November 2005

• Aded portugese language version
• Added example syndication pages in each languages, and some colours.

24th November 2005

• Made syndication system work in multiple languages
• Added Danish language version
• Added many more terms to the dictionary
• Tweaked a bug in syndicate code builder where an existing URL would create a new code, even if that URL already existed.

21st November 2005

• Added forcing chains definition to solving techniques
• Added uniqueness terms to the dictionary
• Added a books page, with links to amazon
• Made google button on nav bar only show on demand
• Signed up Tom as a syndicate :)
• End users can now suggest amendments and additions to the dictionary

16th November 2005

• Made leap over to self-syndication, only one flash solver to worry about
• All of syndication system online, including stats.

14th November 2005

• Massive internal changes to the way puzzles are served
• Syndication system introduced
• Flash solver now handles numeric keypad
• Flash solver now globally referenced by FLASH_SOLVER
• New and improved customised colour picker
• Added more syndication utility functions
• Constant tweaks to syndication engine and JS

9th November 2005

• Main menu shuffled and relocated as it was getting a bit big
• Site now has a fluid layout, involving multiple floats
• Google ads moved to the right hand side
• Added window.print() call to print pages

7th November 2005

• Added google adsense referrer button, nice and simple
• Tweaked the dictionary layout slightly, to avoid link styling on titles
• New flash solver v1.5 which has support for changing text,box/line colours
• Customisation now possible for colours of flash solver

3rd November 2005

• More tweaking to CSS for all layouts, now more centrally aligned
• Added dictionary entry for most recent items
• Added date to today's puzzles in navigation
• Fixed CSS bug in solution page on IE, was not displaying full solution
• Added an empty grid so people can input their own puzzles
• Slightly shuffled the order of nav about
• Changed the font size on the navigation a bit.
• Title now reads 250,000+ rather than 1/4 million, which looked a bit clunky
• Title now reads the exact amount of puzzles in the database
• Slight tweak to link stylings

29th October 2005

• Tweaked print view on IE so that it doesn't run off the side of the screen

28th October 2005

• Added number chains, hidden chains
• Tweaked some terms in the dictionary
• Added date forward/backward on daily puzzle page
• Added x-wing description

26th October 2005

• Updated the puzzles database to have over 1/4 million puzzles
• Adjusted the puzzle class ratings to reflect the new puzzles in the DB
• Random puzzle selector now remembers which puzzle it is when you change to the non-flash solver
• Added four blank grids for printing out for paper solving

25th October 2005

• Made pencilmarks and candidates a bit larger, therefore more readable.
• Changed terminology for dictionary
• New DB structure for dictionary, allows for easy linking of definitions

23rd October 2005

• Updated solver to new Flash based version, allows for candidates
• Updated dictionary, allows linking between definitions
• Added 4-ply print version, you can now print 4 puzzles at once
• Found some bugs in the flash solver, fixed

17th October 2005

• Changed colour on initial numbers to be more blue, so it's easier to tell which they are