I would like to mention a question that posed on stackoverflow a year back, with a slight change. Given a function which produces a random integer in the range 0 to 4, write a function which produces a random integer […]

Pi Calculation Today is the [math]pi[/math] day, 03/14 2010. Happy [math]pi[/math]day to all! The Monte Carlo method generates multiple trials to determine the expected value of a random variable. Calculating Pi is generally the hello world of Monte Carlo Method […]

Real-World functional programming has been written by Tomas Petricek and Jon Skeet. Tomasz’s and Jon’s book is built around how to think functionally when programming and how to make best use of functional paradigm for real world scenerios. The book […]

Finally I had a chance to play with the Pex (Program EXploration) , I heard it on lang.net for the very first time and I was quite impressed, but it took a while to explore it. I downloaded the latest […]

If you happen to use Admob and cocos2d in the same project, the compilation will fail with some linking errors. Although it is not mentioned on Admod SDK documentation, apparently Admob borrows TouchJSON from touch code, so does Cocos2d. ld: […]

Although it has been a while since Brian posted the poker problem in his blog, I haven’t got the chance to look at it until I came across in ProjectEuler Problem 54. It is not the elegant or best solution […]

Multiple Inheritance is a feature that a class that can inherit more than one class. Although CLR does not really care about it, it is not possible in the mainstream .NET languages to have multiple inheritance. It is arguable that […]

Last year, Windows Kernel team released a new cryptography libraries called Next Generation Cryptography (CNG). Although it is only available on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 kernels so far, I think it is going to replace the CAPICOM with […]