Comments on: LazyWeb request http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request Richard Cyganiak's Weblog Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:38:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Earle Martin http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request#comment-172302 Earle Martin Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:11:38 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request#comment-172302 <p>I am inevitably reminded of:</p> <p>“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</p> 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

]]> By: CaptSolo http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request#comment-59653 CaptSolo Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:51:54 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request#comment-59653 <p>c) sounds like fun. As for a) - human computation is in these days. Just let people do the solving. :)</p> <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: Stelios Sfakianakis http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request#comment-58163 Stelios Sfakianakis Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:40:29 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request#comment-58163 <p>A Lazy answer: There are plenty of web sites that generate and solve sudoku. A quick search revealed <span class='-linked-Data' title='http://show.websudoku.com/?' postaddress='http://dowhatimean.net/index.php?sioc_type=comment%26sioc_id=58163'><a href='http://show.websudoku.com/?'>http://show.websudoku.com/?</a></span> for the sudoku generation and <span class='-linked-Data' title='http://www.jarek.cz/en/logical-puzzles/sudoku/automatic-solver/' postaddress='http://dowhatimean.net/index.php?sioc_type=comment%26sioc_id=58163'><a href='http://www.jarek.cz/en/logical-puzzles/sudoku/automatic-solver/'>http://www.jarek.cz/en/logical-puzzles/sudoku/automatic-solver/</a></span> 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 )</p> <p>Of course I am assuming that the licenses of the corresponding web pages permit such mashups, which I believe is not the case :-D</p> <p>Cheers Stelios</p> 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

]]> By: wingerz http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request#comment-58141 wingerz Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:21:25 +0000 http://dowhatimean.net/2007/04/lazyweb-request#comment-58141 <p>Anything in particular you want to do with this? One of my close friends put together <span class='-linked-Data' title='http://www.sudokuslam.com/' postaddress='http://dowhatimean.net/index.php?sioc_type=comment%26sioc_id=58141'><a href='http://www.sudokuslam.com/'>http://www.sudokuslam.com/</a></span> . It’s got a sophisticated solver and generator (but neither is exposed as a service, I think).</p> 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).

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