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  • Project Creation

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    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…

  • Trac Setup

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    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…

  • RegExp Master

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    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…

  • Dice Rolling 2

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    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…

  • Dice Rolling

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    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.…