Monthly Archives: September 2005

Wikipedia

Posted on 6 September, 2005 by Simeon

Well I’m spent some time today reading the Finanical Mathematics section of Wikipedia. This was inspired after going to the Optionetics® workshop last night (but I’ll blog about that later). So I’ve been reading a lot of option background guff, … Continue reading →

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Fathers Day

Posted on 4 September, 2005 by Simeon

Well while I enjoyed my fathers day sleep-in this morning, I worked through why the example Sieve of Eratosthenes works. When for example the outer loop is at 4, you can start at 16 (4*4) due to the 2, 3 … Continue reading →

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Redemption from quick judgement (Politics)

Posted on 2 September, 2005 by Simeon

Chris from the .Net user group mailing list often post on his blog political posts. Fair enough that’s the beauty of the web, and he even qualifies it nicely, his blog’s at “syringe.net.nz” with the tag line “Irregular injection of … Continue reading →

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Post TechEd knowledge sharing.

Posted on 2 September, 2005 by Simeon

Kevin (one of our senior developers) has returned from TechEd. The first demo he did was showing how ClickOnce works. He spent the afternoon getting our current .Net 1.1 application running in .Net 2.0 Beta 2, then configured ClickOnce and … Continue reading →

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TopCoder – Single Round Match 261

Posted on 1 September, 2005 by Simeon

Well yesterday I took 2 hours off work in the middle of the day to compete. The end result was a “why did I bother”. The first problem was a really simple prime number search problem. You had to search … Continue reading →