Tweet ps. look out for all my other solutions for Advent of Code challenges here.   Day 4 See details of the challenge here. The input for today’s challenge looks something like this: bkwzkqsxq-tovvilokx-nozvyiwoxd-172[fstek] wifilzof-wbiwifuny-yhachyylcha-526[qrazx] jvyyvzpcl-jhukf-shivyhavyf-487[zhtsi] kwvacumz-ozilm-kivlg-kwvbiqvumvb-694[gknyw] mvhkvbdib-kmjezxodgz-mvwwdo-omvdidib-837[dmvbi] nzydfxpc-rclop-qwzhpc-lnbftdtetzy-171[cptzd] vhehkyne-unggr-inkvatlbgz-813[gnehk] tcorcikpi-hnqygt-octmgvkpi-570[[...]

Tweet ps. look out for all my other solutions for Advent of Code challenges here.   Day 3 See details of the challenge here. First, let’s capture the input for today’s challenge in a text file, say Day03Input.txt. Then, let’s create a module to capture the common steps between both parts of the challenge. There’s really

Tweet ps. look out for all my other solutions for Advent of Code challenges here.   Day 2 See details of the challenge here. Let’s start by capturing the model and input data in a module. Since I’m armed with the hindsight of having seen both parts of today’s challenge I’ve refactored the common logic into a solve function:

Tweet Hello, here are the recordings of my two talks at Oredev with accompanying slides. Modelling game economy with neo4j Oredev from Yan Cui   Fear and loathing with APL (oredev) from Yan Cui Tweet

Tweet By now many of you would have heard about the demise of Yubl – the startup where I have been working the last 7 months – in the same week Karhoo also announced its closure.   It took all of us by surprise, and happened at a time when we have made real strides in the (r)evolution of our backend