SaturdayMP Show 62: Advent of Code 2024 Day 12 (Part 2 – Area Calculated)

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Chris C

In this episode I actually make some progress on the Advent of Code Day 12 problem and can calculate the area of a plot starting at a given point. Any feedback on my solution so far? Any Python tips for me?

You can find Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/RhSQ49SVAtY

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SaturdayMP Show 61: Advent of Code 2024 Day 12 (Part 1 – Python Import Difficulties)

Posted on January 8, 2025 by Chris C

In this episode I attempt the Advent of Code Day 12 challenge. I didn’t get very far as I struggled to figure out how imports work in Python. Is it just me or did others struggle importing Python files?

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SaturdayMP Show 60: Advent of Code 2024 (Day 2)

Posted on December 13, 2024 by Chris C

In this episode I solve the Advent of Code 2024 Day 2 problem. I solve it using Python, a language I’m not very familiar with. I did learn that Python lists allow negative indexing, which confused me at first. Do people use negative indexing often?

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SaturdayMP Show 59: Customize Office Ribbon

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Chris C

In this episode I show how to customize Microsoft Word Ribbon (i.e. menu) without any developer tools. Inspired by a client who needed some changes to their Word Ribbon.

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SaturdayMP Show 58: Human Resource Machine (Duplicate Machine Size Challenge)

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Chris C

In this episode I solve the Human Resource Machine Duplicate Machine size challenge! Sorry for the spoiler, I am really excited that I solved the problem which you can hear in my voice in the video.

That said, I didn’t solve the speed challenge. Any suggestions? Ideally a suggestion that is not just the answer as I’m sure I could search for the solution.

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SaturdayMP Show 57: Something’s Rotten at the Gilded Rose: A Refactoring Tale

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Chris C

In this episode I tackle the famous Gilded Rose refactoring kata as practice for my upcoming Edmonton .NET User Group (EDMUG) presentation. One of the great things about the Gilded Rose kata is the different ways to “solve” it. What would have done different then me?

Slides and source code for the presentation can be found here.

I’m posting this the day after the EDMUG presentation. Thank you to EDMUG for allowing me to present and special thank you to the attendees who braved the snow and bad driving conditions.

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SaturdayMP Show 56: Kali on WSL

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Chris C

In this episode I install Kali Linux on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and try different desktop GUI experiences. You can find the steps I used here. What is your experience using Kali, or other Linux distributions, on WSL?

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SaturdayMP Show 55: Migrating from VMWare to Hyper-V

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Chris C

In this video I migrate an Ubuntu VMWare Workstation hard disk to Hyper-V. I get stuck trying to enable enhanced session at the end. I think the problem is I need to set the EnhancedSessionTransportType to HvSocket: 

Set-VM -VMName WsUbuntuExample -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvSocket

I’ll try that at a later date and let you know if works. Please let me know if you think above will work and if you have any improvements on migrating virtual machines.

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SaturdayMP Show 53: Human Resource Machine (Inventory Report)

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Chris C

In this video I solve the Inventory Report problem in Human Resource Machine game by Tomorrow Corporation. It simulates finding characters in a null terminated string.

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SaturdayMP Show 52: Human Resource Machine (Strings)

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Chris C

In this video I solve a couple string problems in the Human Resource Machine game by Tomorrow Corporation. The problems are a good way to explain null terminated strings.

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