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I put up two sites this month, but I'm not sure they qualify. They don't have any chance at growing into a startup, but I'm going to list them anyway. The firs

I put up two sites this month, but I'm not sure they qualify. They don't have any chance at growing into a startup, but I'm going to list them anyway. The first is a little game that lets you try to unscramble words [1]. It's hardest word list is from a post about the 1000 most useful words that came up here a while ago. My favourite thing about the site is that it fetches definitions and the like from wordnik so you can learn as you play. If you want to try playing let me know and I'll fix the last known bug. The focus is stolen from the input box when I check to see if the top word has changed, but I didn't fix it because I got distracted by more interesting projects. The second is a personal website with links to my blog and a portfolio of past projects [2]. I figured starting to put together a portfolio would help to get me a job at some point and that it would be a nice way to start learning Clojure, which I've been wanting to try for a while. Still haven't decided on a domain name though. Right now I'm working on a third project that people on Hacker News might be more interested in. I'm hoping it will bear some resemblance to Stack Overflow when it gets a little more fleshed out, but that won't be done this month. God willing it will be done some time in December so I can share it with all of you. I'm really excited about it. 1: http://anagramscramble.appspot.com/ http://anagramscramble.appspot.com/ 2: http://jcolessite.appspot.com/ http://jcolessite.appspot.com/

bendmorris 16y ago
I enjoyed playing anagramscramble for a bit, and I think it's great timing as I'm prepping for the GRE in a couple weeks - playing your game might help my verbal score. A couple comments: 1. You mentioned this, but it would be great if focus stayed on the input box. That would make it easy to play with just the keyboard, without having to tab. 2. Sometimes there are more than one legitimate solution (for example: scalp, clasp) - you could try checking if the submitted word is real or not instead of matching it to the word you originally scrambled. Thanks for an amusing 10 minutes or so.
- JoshCole 16y ago
  I fixed the bug that was stealing focus. In case your curious the problem was that the code would always think the word had changed due to trying to select the current anagram with the wrong jquery selector (div instead of span). As to allowing multiple words for the same anagram. Umm.. that not a bug that is a feature! It uhh.. it helps you to be more.. creative.. year that is what it does. More seriously though, I'm busy right now and don't think it really ruins the experience like the focus bug does, so I'm going to hold off on implementing that till I'm finished with my previously mentioned 'interesting project. Oh and one more thing, thanks for playing!
  - bemmu 16y ago
    I still managed to get my focus to escape the box when I tried playing it just now.

bendmorris 16y ago

I enjoyed playing anagramscramble for a bit, and I think it's great timing as I'm prepping for the GRE in a couple weeks - playing your game might help my verbal score. A couple comments: 1. You mentioned this, but it would be great if focus stayed on the input box. That would make it easy to play with just the keyboard, without having to tab. 2. Sometimes there are more than one legitimate solution (for example: scalp, clasp) - you could try checking if the submitted word is real or not instead of matching it to the word you originally scrambled. Thanks for an amusing 10 minutes or so.

JoshCole 16y ago
I fixed the bug that was stealing focus. In case your curious the problem was that the code would always think the word had changed due to trying to select the current anagram with the wrong jquery selector (div instead of span). As to allowing multiple words for the same anagram. Umm.. that not a bug that is a feature! It uhh.. it helps you to be more.. creative.. year that is what it does. More seriously though, I'm busy right now and don't think it really ruins the experience like the focus bug does, so I'm going to hold off on implementing that till I'm finished with my previously mentioned 'interesting project. Oh and one more thing, thanks for playing!
- bemmu 16y ago
  I still managed to get my focus to escape the box when I tried playing it just now.