Noah Ó Donnaile
I had a lot of fun yesterday evening competing in the 11th edition of the #battledev competition. I hadn't taken part before, but decided it might be worth checking out what competitions happen beyond Ireland's shores, and a French friend recommended this one. The competition is French, but it...
Noah Ó Donnaile
The Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) is an annual programming competition hosted in University College Cork. I have attended the IrlCPC before, finishing second in 2016 and third in 2017, delighted both times. This year, there were seven problems on the list, roughly arranged in...
Noah Ó Donnaile
This week I took part in the HackTrinity CTF. It was my first CTF, but by the end of the week I managed to get all the flags. I think I may have been the second person to do it :) Following is my solutions to each of the problems, in the order I solved them. The ones closer to the end may be more...
Noah Ó Donnaile
Kattis is an online programming problem archive that gives you points for each problem you solve in relation to how difficult the problem is. It then aggregates the total points of people within a university, and within a country, based on an adjusted sum of the total points of all members of each...
Noah Ó Donnaile
The Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrlCPC) 2017 was held on Saturday, 25th of March, in sunny University College Cork. I was competing with two of my housemates, Cian Ruane, and Ross O'Sullivan. Myself, Cian Ruane, and Stefan Kennedy came 2nd place at the IrlCPC last year, so I fancied our...
Noah Ó Donnaile
On Wednesday the 22nd of February, I took to the southside to take part in Hack the Dot, a domain-name-driven hackathon organised and hosted by Rightside. I am a big domain name watcher, and a vocal fan of the new generic TLDs. Rightside are a Donuts competitor, and I didn't realise that they...
Noah Ó Donnaile
On Friday the 10th of February, myself and my compadre Cian Ruane took part in the HackYourWayDay hackathon in the NDRC that we had seen publicised around the place the previous week. The hackathon was themed around Eircodes, which are Ireland's new controversial postcodes. I'm interested in data,...