Monthly Archives: May 2010
TypeForwardedTo
When I first heard about this attribute I was excited, the refactoring potential was great! Then I read a bit more and was disappointed to see that while you could forward types, they had to maintain their full type name, … Continue reading
Silverlight 4
So I’m a couple of weeks behind the times but the final silverlight 4 tools were released, so it was time to give it a spin. The result is http://www.themissingdocs.net/LoopDeLoop.html Its a cut-down version of my win forms LoopDeLoop, but … Continue reading
TCO10 QR3
So I blinked and I missed the fact that qualifying round 3 had already happened. I thought it was this coming weekend. Having got through in QR1, forgetting about it is no drama, but it does mean my analysis of … Continue reading
Dynamic Programming – the random guide
Since I got a comment asking about it, I thought I would write down what I know about dynamic programming. What is it? When I think of dynamic programming I think of filling in an array using other already filled … Continue reading
GCJ10 R1C
This round needed at least one problem out entirely, and if it wasn’t the third problem you needed the whole second problem or the small input for the third. So it looks like it may not have been quite as … Continue reading
GCJ10 R1B
Not sure whether attendance for 1B was higher or the problems easier, but the cut-off for getting through was a much higher score… Unlike my round where solving any single problem with a decent time was sufficient, this round you … Continue reading
GCJ10 R1A
So, google code jam round 1A was today, and while I got through in 876th place (and so I won’t need to stay up for 1B or 1C), I feel the need to grumble a bit. I started with the … Continue reading
Odd bug in 64bit .Net runtime
Was investigating a bug today and found some very peculiar behaviour in the 64bit .Net runtime. Lets say we have a thread running the following loop. while (true) { try { Thread.Sleep(10000); } catch { } try { } catch … Continue reading
TCO10 QR2
So QR2 for TCO10 was yesterday, and I decided to take a look at the questions today. Q1) Given a list of sell prices and buy prices for a specific type of object, and a tax on selling, determine maximum … Continue reading
GCJ10 Qualifying Round
So the qualifying round is over and ~1500 people (including me ) got all the questions out successfully. 8523 people got the required 33 points to advance to the first round. Questions were very mathematical, only the 3rd question really … Continue reading