The DCU CPSSD site is a wee bit of a shambles. You can ignore the many typos and spelling mistakes; they can be breezed over. You can ignore the dense text and formal language; that's necessary for the sort of site it is. But what
Continue ReadingA warm breeze was blowing the day before yesterday. The sun shone with a bit of hope, and young cheerful students poured out of their dark corners and started playing frisbee on the DCU green and pretending to have fun. Summer must have arrived. My
Continue ReadingI've been doing some Project Euler problems in the past few days, and regained my proud position in the top 20 in Ireland. I'm currently in joint 18th place, with a noble 98 problems solved. So close to that magic 100. My most recent conquests
Continue ReadingLast weekend I went to Galway with Redbrick, for the first intersocs hackathon. It was good fun! Galway was very nice. I heard from the waiter in "Rockin' Joes" that there are 3 series of both Black Sails and The 100, whereas I'd only seen
Continue ReadingLast Thursday was the Google Hashcode, and team cat /dev/urandom >> solution.cpp was at our usual business again. It was a really, really nice competition, and we did okay! The task was to write a tool to optimise the routes of delivery
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