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An Interesting Little Problem

June 14th

This post was inspired by a recent interview question that was posted over at fsharp.it. It’s one of those neat little questions which looks really simple on the surface but is quite tricky.

More RCE Goodness

March 6th

I’m quite excited. My previous RCE solution and tutorial has been approved!
Plus, the first keygenme that I’ve ever written is now approved and available for download. So if you’re up for a 64-bit RCE challenge, go check it out (or download it directly from here).
Feel free to let me know how good/bad/ugly you [...]

Challenge #3 - Day of Birth

February 4th

I haven’t posted a challenge for a while, so I thought I’d get you all thinking again with another basic little program. It’s simple, but there are a stack of possible solutions, so I’m expecting a bit of variety. So here we go.
Write a program that asks the user for their date of birth [...]

Challenge #2 - The Recursive Ruler

October 12th

I posted this problem a little while ago on the site I used to run, and it proved to be an interesting one that resulted in quite a large collection of solutions from the posters. So here it is again.
Your job is to write a program that generates a text-based ruler. For a clearer definition [...]

Who’s up for a challenge?

September 15th

Before starting this blog up, I spent a bit of time thinking about the kind of things I would like to talk about which other people might find interesting. I also wanted to find some areas of discussion where people would be interested in giving me feedback and comments containing their thoughts and opinions so [...]

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