Well, folks, it’s been more than one year since I started posting puzzles on this website and I’d like to write a few words about that. Actually, since this site has become popular thanks to Killer Sudoku puzzles I intended to wait until the anniversary of the first Killer Sudoku puzzle posted here, but CathyW jumped the gun a little too early in the forum on this topic. Nevermind that, here is a brief history of www.djape.net.
It was on September 13, 2005 when I made my first post on this site. The first Killer Sudoku puzzle was posted on September 26, followed by the infamous September 27 puzzle which rightlfully has its own category.
From something that was intended as a pet-project, this site has grown into something quite serious for me. It’s a one-man show as far as programming Perfect Sudoku and webmastering the site are concerned, but the whole thing wouldn’t be what it is without the nice community that you folks have built here. NO website can be successful without regular visitors. So, everyone (except spammers), thanks for making this site possible!
A special thanks also goes to Luis-David Neel from Portugal who was the first person to contact me about publishing my puzzles (the “Sudoku K” book), which sparked others to do the same. My puzzles now appear in books and magazines in Portugal, Greece, Switzerland, Finland, UK, France and so far in two newspapers – The Washington Post and The Washington Express. There are, of course, Sudoku K and The Way Of Samurai books, which are available worldwide.
I will soon launch something new, which is not a Sudoku variant website, but still somewhat related to it.
Also, I guess after one year I owe to those who have been here since the early days something that I don’t particularly like doing – and that is to write a few words about myself. Those of you who have purchased “Sudoku K” have already had a chance to read my short bio.
Anyhow, here it is. My full name is Predrag Stanojevic, but friends usually call me Pedja, which is a common nickname for my first name. DJAPE is just an anagram. I have absolutely no music talent and have nothing to do with DJ-ing. 🙂 lol… When I built the site, I thought DJ Ape was just an easy way for English-speaking visitors to remember it.
As you are probably guessing, English is not my first language. I’m a 30 year old computer-science graduate from Belgrade, Serbia (actually, a year ago it was still “Serbia and Montenegro” :)). I have travelled a bit – I finished my senior year of high school in Philadelphia, USA and have also lived and worked as a computer programmer in Sydney, Australia for two years in 1999 and 2000, so that’s where I learned my English.
Other than computers, I very much enjoy all kinds of sports, mainly volleyball, soccer, skiing and everything related to water: scuba diving, sailing, fishing or just riding a small boat on the beautiful river of Danube which flows through my city. Oh, I nearly forgot – I’m a passionate player of bridge (the card game) and some day when this whole Sudoku-craze allows me to find some time to wrap it up, I will release my bridge-analyzing utility program.
Ok, that’s already too much. I think I’ll have to post a few variant-puzzles in the next few days so this post would be quickly gone from the first page and lost somewhere in the archives. 😉
Cheers!
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