BLARGH!! for the people » lulz http://blargh.tommymontgomery.com It's time to bring forth the rhythm and the rhyme Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sudoku Solver: 2006-style http://blargh.tommymontgomery.com/2010/03/sudoku-solver-2006-style/ http://blargh.tommymontgomery.com/2010/03/sudoku-solver-2006-style/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:52:32 +0000 tmont http://blargh.tommymontgomery.com/?p=451 College was such a carefree time. I wasn’t jaded, or cynical, or experienced (at least not in the way you’re thinking). I didn’t care about testability, or code coverage, or documentation, or design patterns, or any of the crap that plagues my thoughts whenever I sit down to write code. I would just sit at my computer, fire up ye olde JPad Pro and churn out steaming mounds of code.

steamingmoundsofcode

I recently found a cool thing I created while in college: a Sudoku solver. It’s nothing new or innovative, but it is coolish looking. And it’s a Java applet! Remember those?

It might just be amusing to look at the HTML source and laugh at my foolish naïvete. No doctype? Not quoting HTML attributes? 1998-style mouse rollovers? JPEGs? Not using swing? The futhermucking <applet> tag!? You might have to see it to believe it.

Be delighted.

Stay cool over the summer, guys.

PS: on a more up-to-date note, I had to change the name of the isValid() method because it was causing NullPointerExceptions during the panel/applet init phase. I guess the order of method calling changed since 1.4?

PPS: obviously I shouldn’t have been overriding Component.isValid(), but I didn’t know what I was doing. I was only 20!

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