I recently came across a great website, Project Euler. Basically, it is a site with loads of mathematical problems that has to be solve programmatically.
It’s not about doing something fast, but also about doing it efficiently. You need to device an efficient algorithm to solve the given problem. Or else, you’d be waiting in front of your computer for days without results, still staring at your running process that hasn’t completed yet.
As many of you might have already guessed, this would require some background knowledge of the mathematical problem you’re solving. Certain properties and results help reduce the overall size of the problem, increasing it’s efficiency.
You can also view the solutions to problems you’ve managed to solve, to see how it was meant to be solved efficiently.
So, head on to Project Euler now!
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The digital version (PDF) of Windows Vista Resource Kit 2nd Edition is available for free download. You only need your Windows Live ID for it.
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February 19th, 2009 · Blogging, SEO
Most of the people try fruitlessly getting on top of the SERPS (Search Engine Ranking Positions). More than 95% people do it wrong, and that’s the reason only a select few enjoy good traffic. Are you one of them? Could you be one of them? How do you know? Lets find out…..
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February 18th, 2009 · Wordpress
Practically everyone knows about Fantastico. Even if you’ve never gone through half of your cPanel options, Fantastico might be the most known option to many.
Fantastico is very helpful in getting Wordpress or any other software on your server installed within a few clicks. Everything is handled by it. Apart from some security optimizations, you will not need to touch your core Wordpress install files anytime later.
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Wordpress is a great blogging platform, no doubt. But if you’ve been surfing through various Wordpress themes websites lately, you’ll find 90% of them plain suck. Really, the one featured on the homepage of many sites are not even worth looking. Why is this the case?
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February 7th, 2009 · Game Maker
Hello again guys! This post is for someone who is pretty much enjoys playing games, but has a thought of creating one for himself. Even if you’re just a person thinking about entering the programming world, I’d suggest reading this entire post before you jump into C/C++ or any other lower level languages directly.
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I recently received a comment on one of my posts about Zend Framework, which requested more concise resources on using this powerful framework. I have to accept, learning Zend Framework is very hard at first. One can write a functional code in Zend Framework easily, but could be clueless as to where it actually goes! This is the same thing that happened to me.
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I mostly program in Python (mainly), PHP and in C/C++. Maybe a few others hear and there. I did try Vim maybe a year ago, when it was 7.0 I guess.
I have the say, the article/post which pushed me towards trying it was: Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?.
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December 24th, 2008 · Chess
Chess engines are everywhere, whether free or non-free. Of course, there are excellent non-free engines like Rybka, but if you’re just starting out, and would like to avoid spending much, you could download Arena. It’s just a GUI, so you’ll even need an engine to get going
For this, I’d recommend something like Toga or even something like Crafty would do.
Computers are tactically very strong, and now-a-days even in endgames due to usage of endgame tablebases. But they can be strategically weak. Even though engines like Rybka can make sound decisions and still improving.
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This is an interesting concept I was just thinking about. Now, I don’t know how effective it can be, but it seems to be an interesting idea. I’d be happy to know your thoughts on this.
Today, frameworks like rails, django and even php frameworks are extremely popular. But with the power of these frameworks, comes more responsibility (Whoa, that’s philosophical).
In Web Hosting forums, a typical hot topic is not how to use these frameworks, since they’re very well documented in the first place, and are quite self-explanatory in their working. The main worry is performance. Can my server handle these many users? Will it crash?
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