Problem

You’re watching a show where Googlers (employees of Google) dance, and then each dancer is given a triplet of scores by three judges. Each triplet of scores consists of three integer scores from 0 to 10 inclusive. The judges have very similar standards, so it’s surprising if a triplet of scores contains two scores that are 2 apart. No triplet of scores contains scores that are more than 2 apart.

For example: (8, 8, and (7, 8, 7) are not surprising. (6, 7, and (6, 8, are surprising. (7, 6, 9) will never happen.

The total points for a Googler is the sum of the three scores in that Googler’s triplet of scores. The best result for a Googler is the maximum of the three scores in that Googler’s triplet of scores. Given the total points for each Googler, as well as the number of surprising triplets of scores, what is the maximum number of Googlers that could have had a best result of at least p?

For example, suppose there were 6 Googlers, and they had the following total points: 29, 20, 8, 18, 18, 21. You remember that there were 2 surprising triplets of scores, and you want to know how many Googlers could have gotten a best result of 8 or better.

With those total points, and knowing that two of the triplets were surprising, the triplets of scores could have been:

10 9 10
6 6 8 (*)
2 3 3
6 6 6
6 6 6
6 7 8 (*)

The cases marked with a (*) are the surprising cases. This gives us 3 Googlers who got at least one score of 8 or better. There’s no series of triplets of scores that would give us a higher number than 3, so the answer is 3.

Problem

Do you ever become frustrated with television because you keep seeing the same things, recycled over and over again? Well I personally don’t care about television, but I do sometimes feel that way about numbers.

Let’s say a pair of distinct positive integers (n, m) is recycled if you can obtain m by moving some digits from the back of n to the front without changing their order. For example, (12345, 34512) is a recycled pair since you can obtain 34512 by moving 345 from the end of 12345 to the front. Note that n and m must have the same number of digits in order to be a recycled pair. Neither n nor m can have leading zeros.

Given integers A and B with the same number of digits and no leading zeros, how many distinct recycled pairs (n, m) are there with A ≤ n < m ≤ B?

After some tries, and because the example was wrong… (damn to Googlers!) i tried to send my solutions, and suprising me..it was Correct!!! Now i was ready for the last Question…but reading the text and watching the figures i was captured by the algorithm and the qualification round was ended!

But no worries for me! Because my earned scores was enough to take part to the First OnLine Round!
See you at the next round!
(if you want to see the source code, please ask me, i will send it to you!)

As you can know the new edition of PhoneGap is called Cordova because now it is a project of the Apache foundation…

And now, for you, i have build the release candidate 1.6 that you can download here!

Click Here to download

Cordova 1.6.0 rc1 Release Notes:

+* Updates for Media API
+* Contacts updates for Unified JavaScript
 +* Fixed Contacts.save return value and Notification.confirm
+* Changed Device initialization to use a require-based pattern
+* Added require syntax for firing events in ios
+* Added a getConnectionInfo method for compatibility
+* Added require in pluginresult helper funcs
+* Updated plist of plugin names -> classes to adhere to common labels in other platforms
+* Rewrite of accelerometer code and removed DeviceInfo old init approach
+* Added warning about changing compiler settings in xcode
+* Changed Accel values to doubles
+* Tweaked battery plugin for cordova-js use
+* Updated interface to get Camera working.
+* Rewrote Location class to use cordova-js unified approach.
+* Updated refs from require("cordova") to just "cordova", and other require calls to cordova.require
+* Updated sub-project cordovalib steps
+* Fixed Compass, Location for cordova-js integration
+* Added unification of accelerometer values on ios (based on android values)
+* Removed old JS, added cordova-js version
+* Changes to CordovaLib makefile for generating JS
+* Fixed CB-260: Can't install Phonegap with new Xcode 4.3
+* Fixed Xcode app detection (using Spotlight) in Makefile
+* Fixed CB-306 - Remove extra template App delegate methods
+* Fixes CB-255 - iOS: a parameter with value 'null' is not passed to 'arguments' array
+* Fixed CB-236 - Add ContentLength Header in Upload request
+* Fixed CB-300 - CDVFileTransfer crashes with 303 and empty response
+* Fixed CB-148, CB-316: Playing HTTP / HTTPS urls using the Media API is not working
+* Improved Makefile for mixed Xcode 4.2 and Xcode 4.3.1 environment.
+* Fixed CB-329 - Add warning if multi-tasking is not supported on an iOS device (to console
log)
+* Fixed CB-317 : Xcode: Shell Script Invocation Error when directory has spaces in name
+* Fixed CB-330 - localStorage / SQLDatabase no longer persistent after iOS 5.01 update
+* Fixed CB-347 - iOS 5.1 localStorage / SQLDatabase error after upgrading an app
+* Fixed shell script error - picks up new location of cordova.js (unified) now
+* Fixed NOTICE file with correct project name
+* Added new CDVCommandDelegate stub to MainViewController

You need to intercept this action: admin_head with the common function add_action and then write your redirect code like in this sample:

add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘BlockSomePost’,10 );

function BlockSomePost() {
	//Assuming that blockPostArray is and array that contains your locked post ID...
	global $blockPostArray;

    //get The Current user
	$cUser = wp_get_current_user();
	//Check the User Role:
	//assume that blockrole is your blocked Role...
	if(array_search('blockrole',$cUser->roles)!==FALSE) {

		if($_GET) {
			if(isset($_GET["post"]) && $_GET["action"]=='edit') {
				$currentPost = $_GET["post"];
				if(array_search($currentPost,$blockPostArray)!==FALSE) {
					//If the current edit post in into the array redirect to your wordpress homepage!
					header( 'Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') );
					exit();
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

I hope that you appreciate this snippet…that is only a starting point to do something more complex, for example you can use the User_Meta fields to attach some post to the user or a database table to store the list of the blocked posts!!

Have a nice coding day!

First of all download and do everything is written into this short guide: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/mobile/download.html#Google_Analytics_SDK_for_iOS; this guide is very simple to follow and if you need any help please contact us!

Then, open your AppDelegate.m File, and look for the function :

- (BOOL) webView:(UIWebView*)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType

When you are into the function, it looks like this:

- (BOOL) webView:(UIWebView*)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType

{

 return [self.viewController webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType];

}

And you need to add these few lines to the top of the function:

NSString* path = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",request];

 if([path hasPrefix:@"mailto"]==NO) {

 NSRange range = [path rangeOfString:@"/" options:NSBackwardsSearch];

 NSString* fileName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"/%@",[path substringFromIndex:range.location + 1]];

 NSError *error;

 if (![[GANTracker sharedTracker] trackPageview:fileName

 withError:&error]) {

 NSLog(@"error in trackPageview");

 }

 }

With these few lines we can intercept the reload of the webview and then send a PageView to the Google Analytics tracker!!
Do not forgot to include the tracker into your AppDelegate!

Have a fun coding!

You can learn more from the website that speaks about it, such as RabenBlog (visible at: http://rabenblog.eraben.com/w/index.php/difficolta/saputello/sviluppare-applicazioni-android-con-mobileschool/) that wrote a beautiful post about Francesco Lo Truglio and his role in the MobileSchool!

and now, what do you want to do? Do you want to stand outside and watch this revolution? Join it!

http://www.mobileschool.it

He, the amazing mind behind  “new era devices ” such the iPhone and the Ipad, he that turned Apple  into one of the world’s most powerful and innovative companies, now maybe for unspecified medical condition leave the leading of Apple..and now? Now that the war has just bugin? What will happen?

Now that Google has bought Motorola Mobile and now that Nokia will use Wp7 in its mobile devices?Now that Apple has to show to the whole World his Lion teeth…The only thing can we can expect is a period in whitch the shares will be strange and they do some up and down…but now we just have to wait for the next move of Tim Cook (the new CEO of Apple)  and wait for recovery of the shares and the launch of the new devices…

What do you think about these facts?
Add comment or write to myself to increase the prediction of the new Apple era!

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Android HoneyComb! what is ? i cannot spend a lot of words on this but you can read the specs on another post of mine (honeycomb), because in this post i want describe the most important news, needed to have a first approach to this developing environment!

The language and the tools are the same (eclipse, java …and so on!) but the approach need to be different, in honeycomb we have the “Fragment”.

The Fragments be a great way to display content, and allow easier navigation of tablet devices, they are similar to the activity but they are only a piece of the global activity. A Fragment object is something between a View and and Activity: It can be part of a layout, but it isn’t a subclass of View. It implements the ComponentCallbacks interface, and it has a lifecycle, but that lifecycle is dependent on the Activity the Fragment object belongs to. Let’s see what it can do for us in a tablet-sized user interface.

There are four important thing that the fragment do for you:

• Dialogs: there is a Fragment called DialogFragment that makes it easy to show a Dialog that is managed as part of the Activity lifecycle.
  This replaces Activity’s “managed dialog” APIs.
• ListActivity: Another kind of Fragment called ListFragment makes it easy to show a list of data.
  This is similar to the existing ListActivity (with a some new features), but answer to the common question about how to show a list with some other data.
• State and restoring: all fragments currently attached to an activity are saved for you by the framework in the activity’s saved instance state and restored for you when it restarts. With this you get help on saving (and restoring) the state of the single fragment.
• History and Navigation: The backstack of all the fragment object loaded is managed by the framework; so it is very easy the use of the activity back button, and you can integrate the existing activity to the fragment backstack! This kind of state is also saved and restored for you automatically.

Now we are ready to begin! follow us, in a couple of day we will prepare a complete example regarding a first honeycomb application to interact with facebook!

Stay tuned!