Coding with Great Hair

Prime number generation with the Sieve of Eratosthenes

2009-12-21T20:39:00Z

Recently I have been getting back into Project Euler problems. One of the most common things I found I needed in my PE tool bag was a method to generate primes quickly, and to determine primality quickly. During a discussion with Darrell Hawley he told me about the Sieve of Eratosthenes . The method I was taking initially to determine primality was the AKS Primality Test , the algorithm, while efficient, was a bit more in depth than I was looking for, however the Sieve of Eratosthenes was simple...(read more)

Retrieving All Blog Posts from Kentico CMS's API

2009-05-27T10:31:00Z

Kentico CMS is a powerful web content solution, highly customizable though a web interface. My personal favorite feature is its open API allowing you to create your own .Net based controls, modules and event handlers. The one flaw I find in the API is its poor documentation. I wanted to get all blog posts from all blogs on my test site. I quickly found the Method CMS.Blogs.BlogHelper.GetAllPosts(), however that is about all the CMS was good for, it provided no examples or more explicit details on...(read more)

My New Blog Theme Released!

2009-04-20T16:34:00Z

Ive finally finished my blog theme, it has some quirks, but those will be worked out. So you probably want to get to customizing the theme for yourself right away, to make it your own. First, open your current blog while you are signed in and click on 'My Blog Dashboard'. This will take you to...your blog dashboard. From here you want to click on 'Configure' on the main tab bar. Once you are in the theme tab. Open the drop down menu and select Granite. You will get an alert of 'Are...(read more)

Multithreading in C#

2008-07-23T18:58:00Z

Multithreading is something that seems to keep popping up on me when I am coding. My applications either need to do some crazy calculation (and not return 42) or a function will be waiting for a while before returning anything. Both of these leave my GUI locked up to the point where in Vista I get a straight black screen and the wait O, and in XP if I click on the GUI I get yelled at for touching an application that is not responding. I soon learned you can't just call all your code out of the...(read more)

Why I’m not buying a 3G iPhone

2008-06-30T14:59:55Z

Since the iPhone 3G was announced at WWDC'08 it seems like it's the new phone everyone has to have. So many features have been added and hardware upgrades as well. I have a 2.5G iPhone and many people have asked me "are you going to get the new iPhone?" and being a geek, the latest and greatest toys are always the best. With the 2.5G iPhone I let my brain take back seat to my credit card, BUT Im letting my brain take over on this one and stop me from spending $299 on a white 16G...(read more)

Charlie who?

2008-06-23T19:47:00Z

I did it, I started a blog. And I’ve gotta say, these first blog posts are pretty hard. There is the tried and true “about me” blog post, and there is the tactic of just writing a blog post like it’s a second post. But the fact of the matter is, this isn’t a second blog post. There may be people reading this that have no clue who I am or why they should care. So I’m gonna have to follow the trend. Who the heck is Charlie Sears? Short answer: I am, and I’m awesome. Long answer: I’m the guy in the...(read more)