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Programming Contest: Orchard Planting

By royvanrijn On October 17, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Algorithms

Yes! Another new programming contest: Orchard Planting

The problem:

On a grid you have to place trees (dots). If there are four trees in a line, you’ll get a point. But: more then 4 trees in a line is illegal. What are the best solutions for N=11 to 60 trees?

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Contacts lost after update to IOS5 (iPhone)

By royvanrijn On October 17, 2011 · 31 Comments · In Other

Yesterday I decided to (finally) upgrade to IOS 5. This new firmware for the iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad adds a lot of new features, including iCloud, iMessage and more.

At first the upgrade seemed to be a huge success, everything worked and I loved the fact that all my apps were being updated runtime, [...]

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Devoxx '11

Meet me at Devoxx 2011

By royvanrijn On August 5, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Algorithms, Java Programming

This year I’ll be presenting at Devoxx in Antwerp, Belgium. In my opinion it currently is the best Java conference in the world. It’ll be my first talk in English.

The titel of the talk is: What Shazam doesn’t want you to know.

During the talk I’ll be explaining how Shazam works and [...]

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Bitcoin mining

By royvanrijn On May 30, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Bitcoin

A couple of months ago I’ve started using and mining bitcoins. If you don’t know what bitcoin is yet, please watch the following video:

Mining for bitcoins has become harder and harder. But as a pro, the price of the bitcoin has also increased quite a lot. Since I’ve started mining I’ve mined [...]

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Android application #1

By royvanrijn On May 29, 2011 · 1 Comment · In Android, Java Programming

This weekend I wrote my first Android application: Love or Hate

The idea behind the game is very simple. When you start it the application goes online and looks at the most recent tweets containing the following phrases:

“I love it when” “I hate it when”

The application now displays [...]

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