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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:40 PM

Predicted

Way back into March, my best friend Chris and I made our predictions for the presidential election . Since the election is now over (mostly), it's time to review have well we did: Chris's Prediction James's Prediction Actual results President McCain The
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Monday, October 20, 2008 10:47 PM

jQuery.growl Documentation

Right now, I'm in the midst of a long-running project to rewrite my other website, NJTheater.com (beta at njtheater.org ). In the process, I've discovered jQuery, the hot new javascript library that all the kids are using today. One of it's key selling
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:15 PM

Fun Fact: To the Moon, Alice, to the Moon!

I really should bring the subject matter here back around to computers..... Lately (if you consider the last year & a half "lately"), I've been working on a project on my laptop using VisualStudio (usually on the train to work). Every now & then
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Monday, October 13, 2008 10:12 AM

Yep, I'm a socialist....

I haven't posted here in a while, so I figure I'll go back to the old "generate content by taking online quizzes" trick. You are a Social Liberal (66% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (20% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link:
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Monday, September 15, 2008 3:10 PM

Contribute to open source, get a shot at a free book

David Ward has an interesting contest . Having three copies of Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls to give away, he's created a project on CodePlex , and is offering the books to people to who contribute the most to it. One can contribute code or documentation
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:48 PM

Billions & Billions

Recently I got a chain email from a friend, showing the magnitude of a billion. A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. A billion days ago no-one walked
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Monday, August 25, 2008 3:16 PM

Lists: Filter, Map and Reduce - and the Magic of IEnumerator.

I have this bad habit. I will frequently stumble upon a blog post describing some new technique, to which I will post a brilliant comment offering an improvement, which, of course, will get lost in the flotsam and jetsam of the blogosphere. I have to
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Monday, July 21, 2008 1:18 PM

Dev102's Challenge #13 : Brackets

Many people skipped last week's challenge (like I had planned to). As it turned out, I was the only blogger to responded. For this week's challenge, they've gone back to a platform-neutral algorithm question: Your input is a string which is composed from
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:52 PM

Dev102's Challenge #12 : Managed & unmanaged

My solution(s) for last week's challenge were cited, but, only as an "honorable mention" / "also run". This week's challenge is a different sort of animal. Not that it is particularly difficult --- actually I suspect it's quite easy --- it's just that
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 9:55 AM

Dev102's Challenge #11 - Summing Numbers

My answer was acknowledged as correct for last week's challenge. So, let's see if we can make it two in a row. This week : Given a list of n integers and another integer called m, determine (true / false) if there exist 2 numbers in that list which sum
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:50 PM

Dev102's Challenge #10 - The Missing Number

I didn't actually skip last week's challenge for Dev102. I did write up a solution. I just forgot to post it. It was wrong anyway. Well, no sense it looking backward... This week's : Your input is an unsorted list of n numbers ranging from 1 to n+1, all
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:23 PM

DEV102's Programming Job Interview Challenge #8

I skipped last week's DEV102 challenge . I didn't think my answer was right. Turns out that it was. I was assuming that it had a limitation that would disqualify it. I assumed that my solution would only work if you placed the coins in a tight grid with
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Monday, June 02, 2008 10:16 AM

DEV102's Programming Job Interview Challenge #6

Another week, another C# interview question from the good folk's at Dev102.com -- Although I use the term "good folks" advisedly, as this week they did not even acknowledge the solution I posted for last weeks puzzle (which was both correct, and, I believe,
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Monday, May 26, 2008 8:57 AM

DEV102's Programming Job Interview Challenge #5

DEV102 announced the correct responses to last weeks challenge today. Since I announced in my blog I got a prominent spot in their post, which is good considering I was one of about 10,000 correct answers and I gave it rather late in the process. Hopefully,
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Friday, May 23, 2008 9:58 AM

DEV102's Programming Job Interview Challenge #4

The folks at Dev102.com are offering weekly programming challenges, where they offer questions, and let bloggers post about them. I meant to write an answer for last week, but never got around to it. Just as well -- my answer would have been wrong. SO,
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