Friday, July 30, 2010

Facebook Puzzle (breathalyzer)

Facebook Puzzle Description:
http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php?puzzle_id=17


Guides:


Readings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/introcs/96optimization/LCS.java.html
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/161/960229.html
http://sys-view.blogspot.com/2009/12/breathalyzer-facebook-puzzle.html

Tips:
Words to note:
1. kaerfoolly
2. brefalyzah
3. composishun

Testcases:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=95935379414#!/topic.php?uid=15325934266&topic=8941

[eBook] Practical Tips for Software-Intensive Student Projects


This online book is from Damith C. Rajapakse. Its free. So, thought of sharing it here, and hopefully everyone can contribute.

Practical Tips for Software-Intensive Student Projects (3rd edition)

Monday, July 19, 2010

Where is all the "reserved RAM" goes to?

Been wondering where are the additional RAM as advertised in WM devices. The following blog explains in details why you getting only 139.15MB although its advertised that the phone has 250MB RAM. (Example used here is Samsung i8000)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsmobile/archive/2005/11/17/494177.aspx