Mun CS Games Fall 2011 Singles Competition!

Each Fall and Winter at Memorial University's Computer Science Department an ACM rules programming competition is held for their students. These events have enjoyed much success due to the tireless work of many people on the CS Games committee. To help increase the popularity of the events I started donating prizes to the top placements in the competitions, and this Falls' Singles game is no different, so without more ado...

The Prizes!

The third place prize consists of a Mun market bag, a box of Carnation Hot Chocolate mixes, a Mun mug, a DVD of Office Space, and a copy of O'Reilly UML 2.0 pocket reference.

The second place prize prize consists of a Mun market bag, a box of Carnation Hot Chocolate mixes, a Mun mug, a DVD of Scott Pilgram vs the World, and a copy of O'Reilly JUnit pocket reference.

And finally the first place prize consists of a Mun market bag, a box of Carnation Hot Chocolate mixes, a Mun mug, a DVD of the four Matrix movies, and a copy of O'Reilly Vi and Vim Editors pocket reference.

Some lucky runners up will receive a loot bag containing a Mun pen and a Ubuntu 11.04 install CD -awesome I know!

The Fall 2011 CS Games (Singles) are tentatively scheduled for November 4th, 2011, in room EN2036 at 5:00pm to 7:30pm. There will be a sign up sheet in the CS department head office, please contact them if you're interested in competing - seats are limited (CS students only). When a link to the information regarding competition rules, and other details become available I'll update this post.

Memorial University CS Games Team (triples) Fall 2011 Results

The Fall 2011 CS Team Programming Competition took place last Friday night at Memorial University.  Six teams (18 students), took part - trying their skills against the algorithmic conundrums the programming competition committee prepared as their set of three problems (see link for problems & solutions).

After two and half hours of competition we were able to draw the games to a close and announce our top three placements.

In third place, Team C: Megan O'Conner, Ryan Brushett, and Andrew Hobbs.

In second place, Team D: Mark Stacey, Gerry Hall, and Ryan Russell.

Finally in first place, Team A: Robert Robere, Melissa Reid, and Ken Collingwood.

Please join me in wishing them best luck as they head to St. Francis Xavier University to enter the preliminary round of the Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences programming competition. If they place in the top three teams at SFX then they will advance to the Northeast North America Regional Competition of the 2010-2011 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by IBM.

I'd like to thank all the students, volunteers, and the games committee again for making these CS games possible. I hope to see everyone again for the Fall 2011 Mun CS Games Singles competition on November 4th.

Preparing for Apache Karaf 2.2.4

The forth maintenance release of the Apache Karaf 2.2.x branch has entered the planning phase, as such I'm preparing for the release management role.

Preparing for Apache Karaf 2.2.4

To prepare I've selected a bottle of Quinta São João Batista Syrah Reserva 2007 to decant while listening to some Hawksley Workman albums. As mentioned in my last 'preparing for apache karaf' post the 3.0.0 release is still underway in preparation, this 2.2.x update is part of our efforts to make kit releases more often.

The wine will of course only be sampled after being gave proper time to breath in its container, after the first release candidate has be up loaded for voting (see our release guide for more details on our process).

Unfortunately I can't share the wine with you, but I can share a few links to Workman videos.



I'm looking forward to starting the 2.2.4 release process. I'll be posting updates to our Twitter stream (#karaf) and on our IRC channel (irc.codehaus.org #karaf).