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The Game of Life by John Conway, has fasinated me for sometime, I recently discovered a website with short titbits about it all and some java applets to illustrate how it all works.

I played around with it and soon I was hooked I “designed” my own little “glider” and I found that the emergent behaviour was quite nice. I call it Order out of Chaos, because it starts out as what seams to be a random placement of cubes and turns into a “walker” and a static cube, quite nice for my first “LifeHack” attempt.

Try it for yourself

My Lifehack

Well the title is not entirely true I have tried my hand at games development several times, but just didn’t complete anything. So the reason I have not posted anything for awhile is…

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C# and dot net in general has a whole lot of neat built in methods to help you solve some programming tasks, some more trivial than other but most are very useful. One such task is date parsing. This is my generic date parser for c#.
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Learning to program can be a very abstract and frustrating affair, traditionally a very narrow link existed between programming and mathematics, at some universities programming courses fall under mathematics departments. It can be difficult for some people to learn to program. I have found that there is an instant when someone just “gets it”. To program a simple “hello world” program is easy it; it can be copied and pasted and it will work but to understand the underlying concepts and the inner workings is an entirely different mater. Concepts like Object Orientation are very difficult to grasp at first, because usually no frame of reference exists.

This all does not have to be true, you see there are many “Fun” ways you can learn to program, enter RoboCode…
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I recently obtained a brand new HTC Touch, and I have to say it rocks!
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I have recently upgraded my cellphone contract and as such I received a new phone, the HTC Touch, which is really nice btw but more on this in a later post, It is loaded with windows mobile 6.0 Professional, so being a Software Developer by trade I wanted to jump in and get my hands dirty and develop some applications for it.
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I am busy with a coding assignment as part of my Honours degree in computer science. It is nice and challenging, the correctness, in other words, soundness and completeness, of our implementations, although counting the majority of the marks, is not the only thing we will be assessed on, how efficient our implementations are, in terms of speed of execution and size of output, also counts towards our marks. So I started to research a little on implementing more efficient code. Some real neat things you can do to, automagically make code more efficient…
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