Stumbling Through - All Comments

re: Stumbling Through: Getting to the Point

Chris Geier — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:34:44 GMT

Tim, Have you seen you are famous now?

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infopath — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:56:08 GMT

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re: Stumbling Through: K2 [blackpearl] - Infopath Integration (Part II)

tbyrne — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:41:46 GMT

While I haven't specifically used Smart Objects to do this, I would imagine it would be a bit easier than passing the InfoPath xml around. Instead of putting your InfoPath xml in the field mapping dialog, you can probably drag your smart object fields (probably the unique id) into the field. I'd take a look out at the k2 underground for more information on this: http://k2underground.com/

re: Stumbling Through: K2 [blackpearl] - Infopath Integration (Part II)

Rich — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:58:50 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to do something very similar to this but using information from a smart object to feed into the child process. Have you done anything on this or know of anywhere where I could find information.

Cheers

http://blogs.claritycon.com/blogs/tim_byrne/archive/2007/11/08/3452.aspx

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Stumbling Through: K2 [blackpearl] - Infopath Integration (Part II)

Stumbling Through — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:12:07 GMT

Previously, I identified a couple of specific technical problems that I'd like to stumble through

re: Stumbling Through: K2 [blackpearl] - InfoPath Integration (Part I)

Balázs — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:16:44 GMT

Great!

Let's start it! :-)

re: Stumbling Through - Coding Challenges

Jon Schuster — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:04:17 GMT

It was just pointed out to me I had a typo in the above comment. That should have read that people's skills can NOT be judged entirely from a contest like this. Just wanted to make sure that was clarified.

re: Stumbling Through - Coding Challenges

David Hacker — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:58:44 GMT

If my memory serves (and it often fails), I think there were additional test cases outside of the one's given in the problem statements. Not sure if they were boundary tests though, or maybe just tests to make sure people aren't hardcoding soutions.

re: Stumbling Through - Coding Challenges

Jon Schuster — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:13:47 GMT

Just my opinion, but I would argue that the purpose of these sorts of challenges isn't to see if you're a "good" developer who knows to check for every single boundary case and stupid thing the user does. The point is simply to see if you can write an alogrithm that solves what I would call the "meat" of the problem - in other words, the part that doesn't involve all sorts of boundary cases - and, to an extent, how fast you can write it.

It's tricky in general to say what defines a good programmer/consultant/software developer/computer scientist, partially because these all mean different things, partially because people have different ideas of what they think they mean, and also because everyone has different opinions on what makes a person "good" in that role. I think it would be safe to say, though, that you can entirely judge someone's skills from their performance in a competition like this. Everyone has a blend of talents that they use in different ways.

I'm starting to get off-topic, and a little too "everyone is special" for my own taste, so I'll stop here before writing a full blog post of my own in the comments. I also just wanted to mention that I believe the test cases/conditions were explicitly mentioned in the problem statements. I'd have to double-check that to confirm, but usually these sorts of things will say what exactly the input will look like - empty strings, null, and otherwise.

I will say, I'm definitely looking forward to the next Clarity Top Coder Challenge.

re: Stumbling Through: LINQ

Jerry Brunning — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:18:08 GMT

Nice! Keep in mind that LINQ can do even more of the work for you. For example, your code in LoadByPerson can use a single line by using multple From operators:

XElement xmlElement = XElement.Load("Data/People.xml");

foreach (var address in (from item in xmlElement.Descendants("Person")

where item.Attribute("FirstName").Value.Equals(parent.FirstName)

where item.Attribute("LastName").Value.Equals(parent.LastName)

from addr in item.Descendants("Address")

join state in allStates

on addr.Attribute("State").Value equals state.Abbreviation

select new Address(addr.Attribute("City").Value, addr.Attribute("State").Value, state.Name))) {

this.Add(address);

}

re: Stumbling Through: K2 Blackpearl Programmability

Assissotom — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:09:12 GMT

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HAL_9000 » Stumbling Through: WPF (Databinding Part II) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:10:43 GMT

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