From the monthly archives: December 2009

Corewars – An Introduction to Hostile Programming

By On December 1, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Corewar

Corewar is a game from the 1980′s, played between computer programs written in Redcode, a language similar to assembly. The programmers design their battle programs to remove opponents from the memory of the MARS virtual computer by any means possible.

Some of the simpler techniques include blindly overwriting memory, searching for the opponent or spawning [...]

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Styling and plugins

By On December 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Java Programming, Other

Ok, I’ve installed a theme and I’m now adding all kinds of stuff. For example, notice above that you can see my latest tweet! A little personal touch.

I’ve also installed a code-formatter plugin, so I can do a code “Hello World” too now:

public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(“Hello [...]

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Hello world!

By On December 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Other

Just installed WordPress on my new server. Hopefully a lot of new/cool/interesting posts will follow.

The main blog-topics will probably be:

Java/software development Algorithms Math / puzzles The rest of my life

And yes, the website still looks horrible. Hopefully I’ll get time soon to start styling and adding some content!

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