Arevalos Blog

After being persuaded by my friend tr8 to pursue the solving of mathematical problems in the Project Euler site I decided to give it a try. My initial thought was just to browse around, see what was there and nothing more than just poke around.

But I got excited about the problems, they are actually really challenging and entertaining, well, if you like these sort of things. So I started to solve them. As I started to solve them I realized that I should create a repository where I could share the solutions. So I created project euler in google code hosting projects:

http://code.google.com/p/project-euler/

and here am I telling you about the Solution to Project Euler Problem 1 Using Java. For which I used brute force.

I have finished migrating the dependencies for the marathon project to work with dependencies from maven. I use eclipse and the plugin for maven that I use is m2eclipse. The migration has been fairly straight forward, the only difficult part was figuring out the dependencies themselves, for figuring them out I used ibiblio and some googling.

One of the difficult things was to tr to figure out the sun jta dependency. It seems like sun can not licence other parties to host their jars, so I had to use the jta.jar file that I had and use the following piece of code to install it into my local maven repository:

mvn install:install-file \
-Dfile=./jta.jar \
-DgroupId=javax.transaction \
-DartifactId=jta -Dversion=1.0.1B \
-Dpackaging=jar

I will try to get a release out there this week for the marathon project. This has been long overdue. It will be cool to actually use maven to work through it.

This is a great article about why we should bother changing our habits to reduce the carbon footprint of our lives

Why bother?

I will try to get a bike and ride to work. I can’t have a garden here in the apartment. I will try to find a community place where we can plant something, it would be so cool.

I am going to use this site to host applications I develop for my personal pleasure. Right now I am working on a Marathon application, which I will also be porting to facebook.

This application was inspired by my wife’s eagerness to play the flash game, however this didn’t have many questions and the questions tended to repeat themselves, that is why I thought of creating an online version.