What code did you write today?

[Archeress]

Did some python with master MQ which displays (and calculates the area of) polygons with the same radius and iterating over the polygon degree in order to approximate pi as the polygons approximate a circle. Good for thinking about how to calculate areas by splitting up into triangles and then some basic trigonometry. Also, the code ain't too hard.

@Archeress did some MOEA stuff a few years ago, what are you trying to do?

We have been asked to give a presentation on state of the art research in an area of SBSE that interests us. We have to select 3 papers in that area and critique them and determine where the research is going. I started my search yesterday and was drawn to MOEA and there seemed to be a wealth of recent papers (within the last 3 years), so far I think I have 2 papers, just need to find a third.

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[Markymark]

Not bad, but I'd have put ; at the end of the first line for a more stylish effect...

Yes, I know. I'll also add comments and a user guide for version 1.1 which I am working on next week.

 

[Markymark]

Did you type that, or whistle it into a modem?

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[Milkfloat]

I use FME to avoid writing code. Today was struggling with some date/time formatting that I was expecting to be fairly easy, but then I did manage to quickly add some output area centroid grid references to some population data so I could create a population heatmap instead of the usual choropleth.

FME rocks. This was last week's effort to merge in 30B points of data to a spatial database to track where you guys have been driving in the last couple of years. I would have struggled in any other tool.

 

[tyred]

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
printf("fark off world!\n");
return 0;
}

 

[vernon]

 

[martint235]

Last coding I did was around 1999 replacing legacy systems to escape the millennium bug. Visual Basic over Oracle. I'd always wanted to be a programmer ever since I'd first met a Commodore PET in 1980 at school. However once I became a programmer I found that working on large projects day in day out was just soooooo boooorrrringg so went off to do other IT stuff. I keep meaning to learn Python but never get round to it.

On a plus note, today is Friday and some of my best code was written on Friday afternoons. It usually had nothing to do with the actual project but the coding was so elegant and what it did sublime. Usually got removed on Monday mornings. That's what several pints of Fullers ESB does to you on a Friday lunchtime.

 

[Wafer]

FME rocks.

THIS! quite a lot of the spatial analysis and general data manipulation I do these days involves FME, stuff just wouldn't get done without it.

 

[annedonnelly]

I write RPG code The highlight of my week was fixing one of our test programs.

 

[Wafer]

From twitter....

 

[jefmcg]

I write RPG code The highlight of my week was fixing one of our test programs.

After deciding you didn't mean rocket propelled grenades or role-playing games, I had to think, is that still around? And is this you?

 

[Mark1978]

At work i'm in the middle of a pet project using angularjs, bootstrap and some pre-existing server side stuff. Most of my day to day work however, is bash scripting and creating database scripts to fix things along with the odd bit of Java.

At home i've got a bit of a Strava visualisation thing going on using nodejs with express, jquery, jade and mongodb.

 

[pplpilot]

Mrs pplpilot sent me to the shops to get a bottle of milk and if they had any eggs to bring six. She demanded to know why I bought 6 bottles of milk, they had eggs I said...

 

[annedonnelly]

After deciding you didn't mean rocket propelled grenades or role-playing games, I had to think, is that still around? And is this you?

My hair is shorter these days

Yes, it's still around - we even have quite a modern compiler now - but parts of our system is over 20 years old. Our back office programs run in "dumb terminals" like this..

None of this fancy Windows malarky!

 

[subaqua]

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