In this article i'll describe how I coded a map of all the postoffices in australia. Really this technique could be used to map anything you want, such as the location of all sales made in the last month, or the location of all your offices/stores/franchises/whatever.

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Update: code can now be found on github.

The other day, a mate of mine sent me this game to play, saying to me 'you're a programmer - you figure it out!'. I got stuck on level 10 (shown below) and thought 'why not make a program to figure out a solution' - so here's the results:

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I just finished debugging an Asp.Net application that was dying intermittently from memory leaks caused by third party DLL's (in this case, the third party being microsoft). After mucking around trying to find what was wrong (after all, the private bytes were looking healthy at ~100mb), finally figured out what was the problem. It got to the stage where I could call our server admins and say 'the server is about to crash in the next hour', which got to be simultaneously good for a laugh and good for our users. Anyway, here's how its done:

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