a) A Sudoku solving web service.
b) A Sudoku generating web service.
c) Hook them up to each other.
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Anything in particular you want to do with this? One of my close friends put together http://www.sudokuslam.com/ . It’s got a sophisticated solver and generator (but neither is exposed as a service, I think).
A Lazy answer: There are plenty of web sites that generate and solve sudoku. A quick search revealed http://show.websudoku.com/? for the sudoku generation and http://www.jarek.cz/en/logical-puzzles/sudoku/automatic-solver/ for a solver. Both are using html forms for the sudoku matrix and it’s relatively easy with some html scraping, xpath, and so on to wrap these web pages as web services (either REST or SOAP :-D )
Of course I am assuming that the licenses of the corresponding web pages permit such mashups, which I believe is not the case :-D
c) sounds like fun. As for a) - human computation is in these days. Just let people do the solving. :)
One a more serious note - we need to get all the LazyWeb requests together so that people looking for things to do are presented with a choice of interesting things they may take on.
April 11th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Anything in particular you want to do with this? One of my close friends put together http://www.sudokuslam.com/ . It’s got a sophisticated solver and generator (but neither is exposed as a service, I think).
April 11th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
A Lazy answer: There are plenty of web sites that generate and solve sudoku. A quick search revealed http://show.websudoku.com/? for the sudoku generation and http://www.jarek.cz/en/logical-puzzles/sudoku/automatic-solver/ for a solver. Both are using html forms for the sudoku matrix and it’s relatively easy with some html scraping, xpath, and so on to wrap these web pages as web services (either REST or SOAP :-D )
Of course I am assuming that the licenses of the corresponding web pages permit such mashups, which I believe is not the case :-D
Cheers Stelios
April 19th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
c) sounds like fun. As for a) - human computation is in these days. Just let people do the solving. :)
One a more serious note - we need to get all the LazyWeb requests together so that people looking for things to do are presented with a choice of interesting things they may take on.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:11 am
I am inevitably reminded of:
“For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.” — Steven Wright