Bryan Pieper's Blog : Web Development

On Friday, Google announced they are phasing out support for IE6 after March 1st, 2010.  I was beginning to wonder if this day would ever come. Since Google is putting their weight behind this, hopefully, the rest of the 'net will follow soon. Even Microsoft is urging users to upgrade. 

Just about any web developer will tell you how much grief, pain and agony Internet Explorer 6 is responsible for when building a website. Whether it be lack of standards compliance, undocumented "features", security issues, hair-pulling quirks or just plain stupidity, IE6 will not be missed. We all have a few choice words for IE6 (and IE7, even IE8).

So, let the celebration begin! Farewell IE6, don't let the door hit you on the way out! 

What is a web browser anyways?

For those of us in the tech community, this would be a stupid question.  However, the lay-folk out there may not know what web browser they have. In fact, in the last few years the browser landscape has changed dramatically. It seems like the browser race of the 90s is back. Google, Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple are releasing new browsers on a fairly regular basis.

The other day, one of my coworkers was working on a Sudoku puzzle during lunch. I started thinking to myself… wouldn’t it be pretty cool if I created a automated Sudoku Puzzle Generator?

So, this weekend I created a web-based Sudoku puzzle generator in Python. It turned out to be an interesting math and programming problem. I have never really gotten into the Sudoku craze.  There are a number of my family members that love it.

Here is the link to the Sudoku puzzles. Also, here is the Sudoku Puzzle Generator source code.