Small look-n-feel changes - do not be afraid

Friends and Colleagues!

If you will find that some pages slightly changed their look (currently it happened to wiki and some forum pages) - please do not think something went wrong (though feel free to report if you'll find any bugs or troubles).

As I was many times told that the design of the site feels like it came from stone age - I at last decided to start work on its improvement. Technically this also should help in making it more cross-browser, friendly to search engines and easier to me to handle.

I'm not going to make any radical changes because I suspect not many people like them! :)

Small warning: due to current clumsy site's design it may happen that some things may appear broken unintentionally. So I'll try to make changes by and by so that after each change I can see whether pages are still intact - and fix speedily if something goes wrong.

Hi Jay!

Thanks a lot for your kind proposition.

I myself would love to make the site open-source some day, so that people can help in improving and extending it. However bringing project to open-source requires some efforts of general clean-up, removing mess and chaos, adding some documentation, testing for security issues etc.

This work is in progress, though not as fast as I wish. And I really hope that sooner or later this "wish" will came to reality :)

Meanwhile some smaller subprojects - like javascript demos for certain problems - and, for example Intel 4004 emulator in Python (it is used in some recent task) are open already. They could be found at https://github.com/codeabbey and if you are interested, I'll try to announce here future projects of this kind so that people can take part in some way.

However these projects are not well documented either, though due to their small size it is not a big problem.

Well, as I promised long ago, I created separate forum branch and will post here info about projects you can participate in (or often make them completely from scratch). Some of these projects would be related to CodeAbbey itself, why few others could be my older separate projects to which I could not put much attention now.

Of course if any of colleagues may need a help with his own side-project - it could be posted here too!

Funny, I just thought of it myself - and here you write about it! :)

However some of them straightly spoil the solutions - while some others simply contain precalculated answers and select randomly from them - e.g. they are not of much worth without tools which were used for precalc...

Of course there is another option - I can make checkers visible by some secret link after the problem is solved...

But would it be of great use - what is your opinion? They are in PHP and often not very sexy... :D