Dragons in the Algorithm
Adventures in Programming
by Michael Chermside

ToDo

Things To Do Before "1.0":

  • Add animated dragon logo on right top.
  • Fix permalinks.
  • Get the front page working at mcherm.com. (It would be nice if "http://mcherm.com/blog" also worked since I've been giving that out while in beta.)
  • Add the actual blog title.
  • Valid XHTML …

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Posted Mon 17 December 2007 by mcherm in articles

Feast or Famine

About four weeks ago, the project that I was working on was abruptly canceled. It wasn't that there was anything wrong with the way the project was going -- there were lots of things wrong with the way the project was going, but the cancellation was due to a change in …

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Posted Mon 03 December 2007 by mcherm in Programming

Searching, Thread-count and a Thanksgiving Miracle

Suppose that you have a collection of numbers or perhaps of WidgetManagerHandles -- could be most anything that can be sorted. We'll suppose that these are stored in an array and that you can take as much time as you need beforehand to organize the array, after which we will try …

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Posted Thu 22 November 2007 by mcherm in Programming