Many projects I’ve worked on, especially the projects using micro-optimization, had memory leaks and surprising performance hits. Most coders who work on for example Al Zimmermann’s programming contests use C/C++ and maybe even CUDA to get the most out of their system.
I’m usually using Java, just because I’m most at home in this language. [...]
Since a couple of days I’ve been working hard on the new Al Zimmermann’s Programming Contest: Cards (also called Topswops).
The challenge
The idea is very easy, you take a series of numbers, from 1 to N. You shuffle the numbers around, for example:
5,3,1,2,4
After a lot of comments on my blog asking about the code I decided to try getting it released one more time. Thus I mailed Digital Landmark Services again, telling them this is just a hobby project, and will (in its current form) never be a replacement for Shazam. Also, I explained a lot of [...]
A couple of days ago I noticed this tweet:
berenguel: What is your view on ‘frame switching’?How do you manage (forced) interruptions of your workflow?How do you get the interruptor to give up?
This is something I’m currently not experiencing, but I have been fighting this in the [...]
After a couple of iterations our software started to show some wear and tear. With all fat-GUI clients you always have some behaviour that isn’t exacly what you want, there are always glitches. More and more (Scrum) iterations followed and more and more glitches started accumulating in the application. These glitches are sometimes hard to [...]
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