Archive for December, 2009

Importing Color Schemes Cleanly into Eclipse

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Eclipse, for any Java developer, is a tool that is almost as essential for developing Java application as the Java docs itself. The compiler even. With its huge plug-in set and ability to do almost anything you want automatically, it is no surprise why you will probably find this IDE in where where Java is developed.

Then you start using it. One of my main complaints about Eclipse is that there is no way to export the color scheme in use without exporting with it other computer-specific settings. I don’t want to export which specific JRE location to use because it won’t be the same on a Mac and Windows. Nor do I want to export other settings, probably having to do with plugi-ns installed. And I especially don’t want another user’s recently used workspace locations. So what do you do?

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Project Euler Problem 1

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

So, I’m starting this much sooner than I would have anticipated but I suddenly got the urge to start.

Problem 1 is pretty straight forward:

If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23.
Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.

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Social Network Recursion

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

People who link to Facebook from Myspace and link to Myspace from Facebook.

Project Euler – Coding For Fun and Knowledge

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

About a year or so ago, I was told of this site, Project Euler.  Unfortunately I didn’t get into it back then, but an email from a mailing list that I’m apart of re-sparked my interest in it. In case you haven’t heard of it before, here is the description of it from the site:

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