Further details on TOI

There is much chance that the launch of TOI (aka Training for Olympiad in Informatics see main article here) will be postponed for Tuesday or Wednesday if we don’t finish the articles I considered to be vital. However, we are trying hard to launch it tomorrow. Anyhow, I guarantee it will be worth the wait!

Some insight on SOME articles we are currently writing or we’ve already finished: the Dijkstra algorithm, AVL Trees, Kruskal & Prim, Miller Rabin, Pollard rho, RMQ. The list of the articles goes on and on.

Hopefully this project will be a success because we’ve worked very hard on it until now. Many students, teachers and senior software developers from different parts of Romania contributed to its development.

Training for Olympiad in Informatics

Hy there!! I had some problems with my ISP and because of this wordpress blogs would not load correctly and so I was deprived of writing here.

What’s up?

Some members of Hackpedia and I are working hard to launch by Monday, 22nd of June 2009, a section on the Hackpedia community entitled: Training for Olympiad in Informatics.

More details please..?

This project started in March 2009. Being one of its founders, through this project I wanted to help every participant in the Olympiad no matter if they are competing locally, regionally or nationally and internationally. We are building a complete set of articles which are helpful for the beginners in algorithms but also for those who want to expand their knowledge.

In addition, we will regularly public sets of problems for each level of the competition and also for each grades (9,10,11,12). One or two weeks after each problem was posted the staff will make a complete solution for it (implementation and text). If the user could benefit from the implementation in C/C++ we will write it this way, if not we will provide pseudo code.

Facing problems?

Yes, some. I hope Hackpedia will be up, again, shortly or we will have to postpone the launching. It went down last night. Moreover, in the launch day I don’t think all the articles will be done (6 or 7 will be for us to write in the future). Oh! All the content will be in Romanian. Maybe in the future we will translate some of it in English.

Later edit: Hackpedia is back online.

Conclusions?

Hopefully, this section will help some users become better in algorithms.

Will be back with updates when we launch!

Generalized Array

Did you ever think about declaring a multi-dimensional array dynamically? If so, I have created a class in C++ just for this.

So the problem goes like this: let an array a of type T, declare an array with n dimensions where n was inputted by the user.

The key is to think about a tree.

Both the implementation and an example can be found here:
Generalized Array

Braincode: Personalized Mass Mailer

As I promised, I am keeping you in touch with Braincode.
We created a new section (Brainshare) where we will put our work which does not have the same level of complexity as the work in the Products section.

The first program posted here, which I developed by the way, is named Personalized Mass Mailer and it’s built in C#. Here is the description:

Personalized Mass Mailer (PMM for short) is a software created with the purpose of one being able to send e-mails, personalized, to many people, without being needed to write to each and every one. In other words: although e-mail services offer one the option to send the same e-mail to various people at once, it doesn’t offer one the option to make it personalized, without the person to see all the addresses one has added to the CC or TO field but, PMM does all of this and more.

Main features:

• Regular expressions so one can benefit from the full experience of e-mail personalization (see the readme file for more information on how to use it)
• Add attachment files
• SSL secure connection
• HTML e-mail
• Real-time status visualization of the e-mails which are to be sent.
• Connect and sign in on the SMTP and test the connection (this is compulsory if one wants to send e-mails)

Note: Add a ; after each written e-mail in the Address textbox!

Download link:
Click here to download Personalized Mass Mailer

Please report any bug encountered!

Braincode Website Released

…. it’s here!

After many struggles with writing content, developing software and organizing events … it’s here! Our work published in one single place… the Braincode Team Website.

Click here:  http://www.braincode.ro

Braincode, BrainIT & Hackpedia

The BrainIT competition is over. Hope that on 5th of January 2009 we will begin sending the prizes throughout the country. Thanks to all our sponsors and parteners and especially to Programare.org and the Software Developers’ Association (Asociatia Programatorilor de Soft).

I am now looking forward to finishing some projects for Braincode and finally post the website with the help of my team. Although I will be very busy, I won’t forget about BrainIT and I hope Braincode will be able to organize a new edition most probably in the summer of 2009.

What about this blog? I will continue posting some news about Braincode projects and as for the research, tutorials and “mini tools”, please visit the Hackpedia Ethical Hacking and Programming Community where I am one of the administrators (you can use Google Translate on that site). I will think about keeping you up to date with the articles I write for Hackpedia.

PS: Glad to have Page Rank 3!

BrainIT and the sending of projects phase

Hello again!

It’s the last day of registration for the BrainIT National Contest so hurry up if you want to participate! Last night Bacioiu Ciprian and I worked on setting up and testing the FTP server where the participants will upload their projects so, tonight at 00:00 (+2 GMT) we will get the server going and update the website with new information.

The hard work has started for us, the organizers.

BrainIT National Competition

I have been busy in the last half of the year forming a team of software developers named Braincode (the website hasn’t been finished yet). Our first project is based on education and encourages every Romanian student who develops software or web application to participate in it.

The BrainIT competition (motto: it’s all about imagination) takes part online (we hope that the next edition will take part in a city). You will have to register by 1st of December and add a description of your project. The sending of projects will be between 2nd and 15th of December. Then, we will start the assessment and give the results on 25th of December (for some of you it will be a very happy Christmas).

The website can be accessed here: http://brainit.braincode.ro (if you don’t understand Romanian, you can use Google Translate to view the translated version). You will find there the Criteria, the Schedule, the Awards and so on.

Gook Luck!

PS: Please read the terms and conditions before registering!

Braincode offers you waranty that no member of it will use in any way your projects or ideas.

CV Update

I’ve updated my Curriculum Vitae (CV) : click here because it was approximately an year old. You can also click this link from the About page.

RSS News Alerter

This software is created for the purpose of reading the last news (from the URL-s of the RSS pages).

Options
- XML Archive (maximum 5 posts/site)
- Add, erase, refresh site from/in archive
- Monitor the RSS pages and alert the user within the popup (see the screenshot), the refresh is made after 1 minute
- Add at startup
- Tray icon

You will need .NET framework 2.0 as it is created in C# 2005.

Take note of the fact that the date added in the XML file is the date at which the feed was added in the file and not the real one because some sites do not have the pubDate tag in the RSS active.

Download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/123792292/RSSNewsAlerter.rar.html

Screenshot:
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4683/rssnewsalerternp3.jpg

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