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Installing a new Java JDK on a Mac

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Updating Java on a Mac is easy, it’s just a case of installing a new JDK and recreating the symbolic link that is used to point to the current JDK.

Project Euler, problem 2, fibonacci sequence

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Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 terms will be: 1, 2, 3, 5...

Project Euler, problem 1, multiple factors

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If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23. Find the sum of all t...

An intro to Node.js, building a URL shortener

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Node has been on my todo list of things to investigate for a little while now, whilst I don’t have much background in javascript, after constantly hearing ab...