After making a few tracs and subversion repos by hand and having to do all the little things that need setting up to make things run smoothly (remembering to give svn trunk/tags/branches directories, setting up trac authentication, etc.), I decided to make a little shell script to do most of it for me. The script… Continue reading Project Creation
Tag: python
Trac Setup
Redmine ended up being a bust due to Debian shipping a version of ruby (1.8.7) that is incompatible with Ruby on Rails. Apparently it doesn’t work above 1.8.6. I am impressed that a language’s flagship application gets broken by a point release and no one seems to have anything to say about it other than… Continue reading Trac Setup
RegExp Master
Sphere Online Judge (SPOJ) is an ongoing automated online programming contest site. They are presently running Open Contest 2008, which Dion and I have done some problems in. In order to compare our results, and so that we overdo one problem set rather than actually trying many, I have written a python script to allow… Continue reading RegExp Master
Dice Rolling 2
In the last piece I wrote, I was describing how I was trying to make a tool to efficiently calculate the probability of rolling or exceeding a particular sum on a number of dice. I had gotten as far as a recursive solution which allowed me to roll any number of `s`-sided dice, but which… Continue reading Dice Rolling 2
Dice Rolling
To start with, I am going to retell the tale of some dice rolling statistics I spent time calculating circa October 2006. My demonstration code is in Python, because it’s fairly legible even if you aren’t familiar with it. ### Intro I like to play games, and playing games often requires one to roll dice.… Continue reading Dice Rolling