The ICFP 2008 Programming Contest (or, My Abject Failure)

Written on July 14, 2008 by matt | 2 Comments

Well I tried my hand at the 2008 ICFP Programing Contest. I had fun, but man oh man did I fail. FAIL.

But first, a quick video of success!

Let me get this out of the way first. After many hours spent feverishly coding, testing, coding, testing, submitting trial builds, etc, I left a debugging flag in my code and submitted it. This particular gem instructed my program to quit after 1 run. The trials go 5 runs. My program won’t make it that far, and so I will be disqualified. For all that is holy in this world why did I do that?!

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Building a Pylons Development OpenSolaris Container

Written on July 9, 2008 by matt | Comment

Of course one of the cornerstone for effective blogging is to build trust and rapport with your audience. You do that by keeping promises, and also by not having advertisements or tags used in your template. But anyway, as promised in an earlier post on Rails Containers I’m going to outline how to create a simple Solaris Container for Pylons development.

I won’t spend quite as much as before on the setup of the zone. I’ll assume that you can go back there and read that one or one of the other good blogs on the topic. This post is more about Python and Pylons, with perhaps just a bit of PostgreSQL thrown in for good measure.

Let’s have some fun!

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