OddThinking

The idea of the computer popping up each morning and saying “Well done! You just hit your highest week’s turnover ever.” or “Oh dear! You had your worst continuous run of profit-less transactions in a row!” might make my job more interesting…

This post describes the internals of my D600 synch application.

I start with a reveal of the how the trick works, for those readers who just want to see how such a miraculous thing could be possible.

Another puzzle solved with the same architecture as before, but this time, with added code re-use.

I have a Object-Orientation question, related to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. I suspect it will have a simple “here is the idiom everyone uses for this situation” type answer, but I haven’t found it. Here’s a fictional piece of software that demonstrates my problem.

Alphametics (aka verbal arithmetic, cryptarithmetic and others) puzzles are an old puzzle where letters are substituted for numbers in simple equations. Go search for alphametics for lots of examples.

These puzzles never really captured my fancy, which is, weirdly enough, why I recently implemented a “puzzle helper” to help solve them.