Sunday, 7 October 2007

Time for a rest

With just a week to go before the start of the 50th World Congress of Chess Composition (WCCC) in Rhodes, Greece, I am relieved to report that all my preparations for the WCSC are complete.

In the remaining days before flying to Rhodes I shall have a bit of a rest, probably spending my time fiddling around trying to improve the website and converting it to the new format. There is still much to learn about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Javascript. Unfortunately there is much to frustrate one with the failure of major browsers to follow a standard enough approach to allow a single piece of code to work across the board. In the old days the major problem for a programmer was the user moving the goal posts. Of course, that is probably a bigger issue than ever these days, but today's web programmer has also got to learn to cope with the browser providers moving the pitch too!

Since my last post I have done little with the site apart from adding some new problems to Meson. I may even do some more of that in the next few days.

The only other thing to report is that the BCPS website, following a week of downtime, has been moved to www.theproblemist.org. Perhaps those who need to would update their links, please?

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