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Many people skipped last week's challenge (like I had planned to). As it turned out, I was the only blogger to responded. For this week's challenge, they've gone back to a platform-neutral algorithm question: Your input is a string which is composed from...
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My solution(s) for last week's challenge were cited, but, only as an "honorable mention" / "also run". This week's challenge is a different sort of animal. Not that it is particularly difficult --- actually I suspect it's quite easy --- it's just that...
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My answer was acknowledged as correct for last week's challenge. So, let's see if we can make it two in a row. This week : Given a list of n integers and another integer called m, determine (true / false) if there exist 2 numbers in that list which sum...
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I didn't actually skip last week's challenge for Dev102. I did write up a solution. I just forgot to post it. It was wrong anyway. Well, no sense it looking backward... This week's : Your input is an unsorted list of n numbers ranging from 1 to n+1, all...
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I skipped last week's DEV102 challenge . I didn't think my answer was right. Turns out that it was. I was assuming that it had a limitation that would disqualify it. I assumed that my solution would only work if you placed the coins in a tight grid with...
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Another week, another C# interview question from the good folk's at Dev102.com -- Although I use the term "good folks" advisedly, as this week they did not even acknowledge the solution I posted for last weeks puzzle (which was both correct, and, I believe,...
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DEV102 announced the correct responses to last weeks challenge today. Since I announced in my blog I got a prominent spot in their post, which is good considering I was one of about 10,000 correct answers and I gave it rather late in the process. Hopefully,...
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The folks at Dev102.com are offering weekly programming challenges, where they offer questions, and let bloggers post about them. I meant to write an answer for last week, but never got around to it. Just as well -- my answer would have been wrong. SO,...
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if you ever tried to Google something like "how to write a linked list in C#" you may have noticed a problem. Most search engines have trouble dealing with the pound sign (hash/number sign/octothorpe). You run into the same problem search for information...
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Today, either Bloglines.com or blogs.MSDN.com blinked, and suddenly I'm seeing old entries on the 'C# Frequently Asked Questions' blog as new. No one has posted anything there in over two years. Anyway, reading the most recent message, it offered a method...
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My friend Chris is, like me, a staunch Democratic. Unlike me, he's also an incredible pessimist. In 2006, he made what he called his "optimistic" prediction for the midterm election: The democrats would gain 3 Senate seat, 10 house seats, and 3 governorships....
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As i was planning my rewrite of NJTheater.com I looked at a couple different Object-Relationship Mappers (mostly code generators which examined a database schema and produced one class per table to read and write rows to it. All seemed particularly lacking...
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Well, as I promised months ago, I've created my second CodePlex project. Actually, I created months ago, while this site was down (as the artist I am, I think I'll refer to that as it's "black period"), But now that I'm back, I guess it's time to make...
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Yes, after about 5 months of downtime, I finally was able to restore my blog. What happened was, sometime mid-July, the PC that was running Sql Server on my network died. It was acting funny for a few weeks, so I took it off line. I removed the hard disk...
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After many months to checking out the new projects on CodePlex almost daily, it's finally time for me to create one. As you might know, I also run the website, NJTheater.com. Written about 10 years ago, all in classic ASP, it has a forum section -- which...
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Recently I was looking at some C# code where the author, to loop through some collection, would frequently use call GetEnumerator() and the manually step through the collections, calling MoveNext(). It seemed to me that the code could be written more...
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Michael Herman recently discovered a typo in the MSDN docs : " IEnumberable: the integer version of IEnumerable? :-) " This reminded me of a method that I've been planning on presenting here: A simple Counting iterator. Basically, it appears to be a collection...
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I've come within a few hours of letting the entire month of April go by without post even one blog entry. So, where the heck have I been? First off, on the 9th, I started a new job. I'm now back to working in NYC, and back to working on C#, after a seven...
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(Note: I started writing this a couple days ago --- a short while before Andrew Matthews published his own very similar article . He, of course, finished his first...) (Update: Fixed the spelling/grammar, and then wrote a bit more) Lately on some of the...
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As I was reading this article by Granville Barnett on some of the new operators available on LINQ queries, I thought, "That's all well and good, but for the time being, we're living in a .Net 2.0 world. I wonder if I could emulate those with just generics...
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Many years ago, I wrote an article entitled "Implement A Circular Iterator" for The VisualC++ Developer's Journal . (Unfortunately, VCDJ is now out of business, and it's successor, Visual Studio Magazine , doesn't maintain an online archive of articles...
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Four days ago, I submitted four of my posts here to dotnetkicks.com . So far, two are still on the first page, and the other two are on the second page. I'm not sure how that compares to others experience, but it's nice to see the work is appreciated....
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It was originally a GW-Basic program for MSDOS. I'm not even sure where I got it from --- Possibly PC Magazine. It drew five images of a horse running, and then flipped between them, demonstrating simple animation. Really simple animation, but in the...
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I just read an article over on CodeProject on creating a small application to quickly go to a Shrinkster.com url , and as I was reading it, a simpler method occurred to me. Backing up a bit, Shrinkster.com is a site which holds a gaint database of web...
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A couple years back, I made a proposal online for a new feature in C#. It gathered some interest in the newsgroup. I later emailed it to someone on the C# team at Microsoft (I believe it was Eric Gunnerson but I'd really have to look it up), who emailed...
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