anchor.diff:  I called it Taseree. That's an abbreviation for Tabu Search Rule Engine Evaluation.
   Later that year, I added 2 more examples (N Queens and TTP) and open sourced it on https://sourceforge.net/projects/taseree/[SourceForge].
   
  -Nobody ever used Taseree, let alone used it in a production environment.
  +Nobody ever used Taseree, let alone deployed it in a production environment.
   Turns out *if you don't release it, nobody uses it.*
   
   
  
positive.code: He liked it. _So I expected him to tell the world about it._ He didn't. He had already moved on to his next project.
  *To get people to use my project, they need to know it first*.
  I needed to toot my own horn.
  So I wrote a few articles about Drools Solver, published them to a few Java news site, recorded a video even and even got a https://twitter.com/GeoffreyDeSmet[twitter account].
  
  
  == Perseverance
  
negative.code: The winner had also open sourced his implementation and when we started discussing and comparing our implementation,
  we learned a lot from each other.
  It turns out there are many ways to skin a cat and there are far more ways to implement Tabu Search.
  So I started implementing alternative algorithms. That made me (and later Lukáš) write the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpcPEieU3Cg[benchmarker] toolkit, to compare those algorithms statistically.
  All just to rank better in the next competition. It takes an hour to understand these algorithms, but 10 000 hours to master them.
  
  *Motivation is key.* Find a way to motivate yourself to build the next feature, especially in the absence of a paycheck.
  