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Esudoku goes global with a competitive edge

awilliams@rectang.com (Andrew Williams) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:03:23 +0000

Sudoku is now a global phenomenon. The logical 9x9 numerical puzzle was initially developed by an American before gaining popularity in Japan. Now the whole world has taken notice. And so have we...

eSudoku is the fastest open source logical sudoku solver available. It uses logical algorithms to calculate the sudoku answers. It also helps users learn sudoku as it explains each step it takes to find the answers. It can run on linux, unix, osx and there is an online version available at http://dev.rectang.com/esudoku.php.

... and now eSudoku has made a leap for freedom ...

Rectang.com's eSudoku is backing a new competitive daily sudoku game on Facebook. The Facebook application has daily sudoku puzzles varying from easy to diabolical. There is an unlimited time limit on each puzzle (up to one day!) and you gain points for completing each puzzle. More difficult puzzles are awarded more points and the leaderboard keeps track of the scores and rankings. The puzzles will get more difficult towards the end of each week giving new users a chance to get started. Esudoku is already proving popular. Check it out at facebook.com.

The next stage for eSudoku is developing a logical, equally rapid generation algorithm. Watch this space ...

Shiny new site design

andy@handyande.co.uk (Andrew Williams) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:42:00 +0100

We hope that you like the new design that we prepared for the website. We shall be applying it to our various projects including a rather spiffing set of stationary! The new design is XHTML compliant, using CSS for the layout rather than tables. All this was made possible by the upcoming XSM 2.0 of which we hope to have a release available later in the year.

Welcome Home Open Source

andy@handyande.co.uk (Andrew Williams) — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:10:38 +0000

Rectang.com just opened it's new open source project framework based on the Trac system.

The framework provides SVN for version control, Wiki for project documentation and a ticketing system that integrates with the wiki and the svn commit messages. If you are remotely interested you can check out the projects using it at dev.rectang.com.

All our projects will be moving to this framework soon but please bear with us during the transition period.

XSM 1.0 finally released

andy@elcock.org (Andrew Elcock) — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:40:42 +0000

XSM 1.0 has now been released and has been used to generate this site amoungst many others.

The 0.1 codebase (last released as 0.1_rc1) has been released as 1.0 to clearly show that this is our first release, with many more to come!

We hope that the advnaced features of this stable release will encourage others to use the system, try it out and suggest new features to make the next version more incredible than this first release

XSM on sourceforge.net

andy@elcock.org (Andrew Elcock) — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:32:37 +0000

The rectang.com content management system "XSM" is now a fully open project, available from sourceforge.net under the GPL license.

The project is called "rxsm" and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rxsm

Attention: Students!

andy@elcock.org (Andrew Elcock) — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:20:11 +0000

If you are a student and have technological needs or wish to learn you have come to the right place. Rectang.com prides itself on making its range of solutions available to students at a reduced cost so that you can have everything that you need and not have to part with an arm and a leg for it.