Well, when I should be working on the game, I instead worked on the Dropbox Challenge. For those of you that don’t know, Dropbox is a program that allows you to sync files and folders. They posted on their hiring page a couple of coding challenges that you could attempt. I decided to try my hand at one, called “The Dropbox Diet”. It boiled down to what was essentially the restaurant problem in one XKCD comics, except with a few stipulations:
(Source: legosm)
Noise cancelling headphones on, indie music rockin’, typing in C++. This is the life of a computer programmer.
One Perfect Cube
The work “One Perfect Cube” consists of three synchronized clocks that form a sign every 12 hours for exactly one second.
What makes this even cooler is that the artist Florian Jenett used processing to plan the piece.
The processing language is really cool - give it a look.
I was asked a really good question today (and I had to Google for the answer): what are public, private, and protected keywords called in C# (or other programming language)?
Access Modifiers!
In C#, that includes the following keywords (via Access Modifiers on MSDN):
public: The type or…
I started a little project a while back to help maintain database updates in a very simple file which could then be maintained a long side out source code. It allows easy updates to developers as well as UAT and Production. The tool works on but Sql Server and MySql.
Some project features:
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(Source: code.google.com)
