From the monthly archives: December 2009
I’ve been developing with Java 5+ for quite a while now. Not all developers are this lucky, some are still stuck with 1.4… some even with 1.3! But my clients all made the excellent step forward to Java 5 (some even to 6). The problem is, they moved the runtime/JDK but forget to move their [...]
Another thing I’ve been very busy with lately is AZsPCs (Al Zimmermanns Programming Competition). The current contest is called Son of Darts.
The idea behind these contests are that they are easy to grasp, but very hard to master.
Lets take three darts. You have to throw them to a dartboard which is divided [...]
About a week ago I had a discussion with a fellow programmer about some boolean logic. We had three parameters, something like:
personHasInsurence (A) personNeedsInsurence (B) personIsKnownAtThisAgency (C)
We also had two particulair cases for an insurance page:
Case 1:
Person has insurence and isn’t yet known at this agency
Case 2:
Person [...]
I’ve implemented a Brainfuck interpreter!
Yes, you heard it right, Brainfuck (BF).
BF is an esoteric programming language. More information on BF can be found here.
The language itself is pretty simple, and most of it was implemented rather quickly in Redcode. The only big problem was navigating [...]
In my previous blogpost I talked about Corewars and the Redcode language. But instead of playing the game, you can do a lot more with the programming language. John Metcalf posted a blog about OISC (One Instruction Set Computers). He decided to implement the RSSB algorithm, so I took on [...]
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