In Computing science artificial intelligence terms, the game of Sudoku is a constraint satisfaction problem. Constraint satisfaction problems are nice in the regard that there are some very nice heuristics that lead to an easy algorithm to solve them. On the other hand, constraint satisfaction problems with a large problem domain may take an inordinate amount of time to solve.
Sometimes it can be handy to inject Dojo into pages that would not otherwise have it. I’ve used this so I can use dojo.query() on a page to select DOM objects while testing a parser in a different language.
There are several Firefox plugins which allow the user to manipulate their browser cookies. However, most of these plugins force the user to manipulate cookies individually. This can become tedious if the user is simply “importing” cookies from, say, a wireshark dump.
The CookieInjector userscript simplifies this process, by allowing the user to copy-paste the cookie portion of the dump and have the cookies from the dump automatically created on the currently viewed web page.
For those of you who read about the re-launching of the SFU Bookswap website (http://sfubookswap.com), you may remember that one of the new features was the integration of the Google Books database.
In this entry I am going to talk about how I integrated the Google Book Search functionality into my existing Dojo framework.
Dojo (http://dojotoolkit.org/) is a wonderful javascript toolkit which just reached version 1.0 at the beginning of November. I have been watching and developing with Dojo for a couple years now and I can’t tell you how excited I am to have passed the version 1 milestone
Greasemonkey (http://www.greasespot.net/) is a handy Firefox extension which allows the injection of javascript (called userscripts) into the webpage currently being viewed. This allows for the customization of the look and feel of a website: improving the user interface or adding additional functionality.
In this example, we are going to use greasemonkey and Dojo to display a dialog widget on an arbitrary website.