Monthly Archives: October 2015

Creating and Publishing a Git Repository on Windows with XAMPP and SCM Manager

Posted on 2015/10/27 by thiscouldbebetter

Follow the steps below to create and publish a Git repository on Microsoft Windows.  Git is a popular set of tools for source code management.  It is used to record and track changes made to computer programs by a group of … Continue reading →

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Installing Bugzilla on Windows with XAMPP

Posted on 2015/10/23 by thiscouldbebetter

Follow the instructions below to install Bugzilla on Microsoft Windows.  Bugzilla is an open-source project management and issue tracking program, commonly called a “bugtracker”. UPDATE 2016/03/29 – Someone asked a question on Stack Overflow that referenced these instructions, saying that … Continue reading →

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Finding the Convex Hull of a Set of Points in JavaScript with the Jarvis’s March Algorithm

Posted on 2015/10/02 by thiscouldbebetter

The JavaScript code below, when run, generates some random 2D points and then finds their “convex hull”, using the relatively simple algorithm known as “Jarvis’s March” or “the Gift-Wrapping Algorithm”. See the Wikipedia page for more details. There are other, … Continue reading →

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