Dan Rice's Weblog

The password is... Swordfish!
Finally the time has come to explain the Sudoku Swordfish rule! The rest of this entry has been moved here.

OpenVG 1.0 is released!
The final version of the OpenVG API has been "released":http://www.khronos.org/openvg ! This represents over a year of work and it's a great feeling to have it available to the public at last. On Friday, the working group will meet to decide on the details of the roadmap for the future. I presented some demos at the OpenVG Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session yesterday, and I'll post some code fragments here along with some coding tips. As well as I know the specification from the editor's point of view, it was an interesting experience to "put on the coder's hat" for a bit and see things from that perspective.

Wednesday's Sudoku Puzzle
Here's another tough Sudoku puzzle. You can always find the solution by replacing 'clue' with 'soln' in the URL of the image. !http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/danrice/sudoku-20050730-000425-clue.png! Technorati Tags:Su Doku Sudoku

Tuesday's Sudoku Puzzle
Here's another tough Sudoku puzzle. You can always find the solution by replacing 'clue' with 'soln' in the URL of the image. !http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/danrice/sudoku-20050730-000250-clue.png! Technorati Tags:Su Doku Sudoku

Monday's Sudoku Puzzle
Here's another tough Sudoku puzzle. You can always find the solution by replacing 'clue' with 'soln' in the URL of the image. Hint: this puzzle uses the "X-Wings" pattern. I'll explain this pattern in the near future. !http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/danrice/sudoku-20050729-235934-clue.png! Technorati Tags:Su Doku Sudoku