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RSS Reader MIDlet 0.33

RSS Reader MIDlet 0.33 04/23/2004 04:24 PM
An RSS reader for handheld devices with Java.

The Obfuscated Perl Contest

The Obfuscated Perl Contest 12/24/2004 12:57 PM

There's a fascinating contest afoot since 1996 called "The Obfuscated Perl Contest." The idea is to write the most needlessly complex Perl program your evil little mind can think up.

According to the Wikipedia page, there are four categories which tend to limit the size of the programs to just 1 or 2K. Here's a good overview of the categories and rules.

I couldn't find an actual home page for the contest, but since one of the categories requires entrants to print out "The Perl Journal," that magazine probably has something to do with it. I did find a number of associated links that showed me far, far more than I wanted to know.

This guy won 2nd place. To give you an idea of how wretched these programs truly are, here's a small piece of his explanation:

The program forks thirty-two copies of itself. Each copy is responsible for printing exactly one character from @data. Because the 32 processes are running concurrently, they somehow need to synchronize themselves so that the thirty-two characters come out in the right order. They use two mechanisms to accomplish this: First, parents wait for their children to complete before printing and exiting. Second, the processes use pipes to communicate to one another when they are finished. About half the program logic is concerned with the details of setting up the pipes correctly.

His program was just 332 characters long. I never did figure out what exactly it printed out.

This guy also won second place (I couldn't figure out what year), but doing something even more ridiuclous: he combines two programs, then hid a subroutine to split the "true" code out and eval it.

I took half of the top portion of the code and half of the lower portion and then interlaced the characters of each. I added a for loop to the final code that separated the two halves, concatenated them, then called eval() to interpret the original program.

Now, I don't know if that's cheating or not, since he's doing things that serve no purpose other than to make things difficult. I would think that extra points would be given to techniques that had an actual purpose separate from the contest itself.

I really liked this guy (man, "this guy" is apparently one hell of a Perl programmer...), who also used the "extracted string which is eval'd" technique, but which resulted in an ASCII clock which displays the current time. Very nice, and perhaps even useful.

From the Wikipedia page, I found this related page about the apparent joy of writing Perl programs to print out "Just Another Perl Hacker". There are some examples there that are very intriguing, including the last one which appears to be nothing more the a block of Perl keywords. How that might work, I haven't the first clue.

Maybe they should talk to the guy who writes Perl in latin. Wouldn't that be obfuscated enough? Or how about the wicked soul that wrote the definitie guide on How to Write Unmaintainable Code? There are some techniques in there that would be worth exploring.

In the end, I can't disagree with this post to a Perl list-serv. When confronted with the title "Obfuscated Perl Contest," this poster responded:

isn't this an oxymoron?

I'm with him.

Genetronics and Merck Sign Licensing
Agreement for MedPulser(R) DNA Delivery
System to Support DNA Vaccine Delivery

Genetronics and Merck Sign Licensing
Agreement for MedPulser(R) DNA Delivery
System to Support DNA Vaccine Delivery 05/31/2004 01:47 PM
Genetronics Biomedical Corporation (Amex: GEB) has signed a collaboration and licensing agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) to develop and commercialize Genetronics' MedPulser® DNA Delivery System, which will be developed for use with certain of Merck's DNA vaccine programs. [PRWEB May 26, 2004]

18th International Obfuscated C Code
Contest Opens

18th International Obfuscated C Code
Contest Opens 03/23/2005 02:32 AM

J2ME VNC Beta 3.0.0

J2ME VNC Beta 3.0.0 11/05/2003 11:40 PM
A VNC client for J2ME devices.

J2ME OGC WMS Client 0.9.8

J2ME OGC WMS Client 0.9.8 08/19/2004 06:20 AM
A J2ME client for accessing OGC Web map services.

J2ME VNC Client

J2ME VNC Client 03/21/2003 01:20 AM
Aplha 0 of VNC for J2ME devices Released

J2ME or BREW?

J2ME or BREW? 07/21/2002 10:36 PM
CNET Jul 21 2002 10:12PM ET

Get to the core of J2ME

Get to the core of J2ME 12/30/2002 02:40 AM
CNET Dec 30 2002 1:02AM ET

J2ME VNC Beta 3.0.4

J2ME VNC Beta 3.0.4 05/11/2004 12:46 AM
A VNC client for J2ME devices.

dotproject mods

dotproject mods 04/15/2004 09:13 PM
Forums now moved to dotproject.net

Mods Manager

Mods Manager 04/27/2004 08:42 AM
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Desktop Mods

Desktop Mods 08/19/2004 11:29 AM
With two 20" LCDs, one 17", an SGI O2, a widescreen laptop on an iCurve, and two sets of mice...

NYT on Game Mods

NYT on Game Mods 12/04/2003 10:44 AM

Base64 of SHA1 for J2ME

Base64 of SHA1 for J2ME 07/18/2004 08:03 PM
The motivation for this implementation was Java enabled cellphones with tight memory requirements.  Russell Beattie ported this code to Java, I then inlined everything that was called once to reduce the footprint. J2SE implementations can use the builtin java.security.  demo

Sun rallies J2ME faithful

Sun rallies J2ME faithful 04/27/2004 04:39 AM
All friends again

J2ME Isometric Engine

J2ME Isometric Engine 05/09/2004 02:06 PM
First real step... Released an alpha version...

J2ME Gaming Book

J2ME Gaming Book 05/08/2004 06:59 PM
Release 0.5.5

R45s phpBB Mods

R45s phpBB Mods 04/10/2004 05:10 AM
Advanced User Search 1.0.0 RC 1 Released!

More WebAPP Mods, Plugins, and Add-Ons

More WebAPP Mods, Plugins, and Add-Ons 07/28/2004 09:36 PM
First SourceForge File Upload

SmoothWall Homebrew Mods

SmoothWall Homebrew Mods 07/23/2004 07:57 AM
SmoothieMods

Four Fantastic Case Mods

Four Fantastic Case Mods 08/27/2004 01:44 PM

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Modding is as hot as ever it would appear. ExtremeTech has showcased four specific case mods that they think are just the coolest. Each of them are very extreme and perhaps even a bit bizarre, I was always fascinated with the desire to do this type of hobby….

DOOM 3 Mods Pack #6

DOOM 3 Mods Pack #6 09/07/2004 10:34 AM
Techzonez Sep 7 2004 2:35PM GMT

Mac (ycl6) phpBB Mods

Mac (ycl6) phpBB Mods 01/26/2004 07:34 PM
Six phpBB MODifications released

J2ME OGC WMS Client 1.0.1 (Default
branch)

J2ME OGC WMS Client 1.0.1 (Default
branch) 04/18/2005 11:02 AM
J2ME OGC WMS Client is a program for accessing OGC Web map services from Java enabled mobile phone or PDAs. It accesses the OGC WMS according to WMS 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 specifications and supports zooming and panning in the Map, WMS sublayers, and a bookmark management system for quick access.

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Changes:
Many bugs were fixed. Compatibility fixes were made for many new devices. German and English manuals were added.

GooBiq - J2ME Games and Applications

GooBiq - J2ME Games and Applications 11/01/2003 08:39 PM
GooBiq InActive

strong perl, j2me experience

strong perl, j2me experience 02/10/2004 02:50 AM
cargotel - United States, md, telecommute (2004-02-09)

Perl SQL and Java (J2ME) programmer

Perl SQL and Java (J2ME) programmer 09/24/2004 02:09 PM
NetTrust Logistics - Must be US Citizen/Green Card, Anywhere in US, telecommute (2004-09-24)

No Bones About It: BBEdit 7.0.3 Gets
Interface Mods And More

No Bones About It: BBEdit 7.0.3 Gets
Interface Mods And More 03/12/2003 04:55 PM
Mac Observer Mar 12 2003 2:49PM ET

O-CuK Test their skills on PhaseChange
Mods

O-CuK Test their skills on PhaseChange
Mods 04/13/2004 09:53 AM

Athlon 64 Board Voltage Mods

Athlon 64 Board Voltage Mods 10/31/2003 06:19 PM

WebDesign Updated With Interface Mods

WebDesign Updated With Interface Mods 06/03/2004 06:50 PM
The Mac Observer - 1 hour ago ... wide Web. WebDesign's supports a wide variety of Web languages including HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, ASP and more. WebDesign ...

Exploring J2ME: Being a good mobile
citizen

Exploring J2ME: Being a good mobile
citizen 09/27/2002 10:41 PM
CNET Sep 27 2002 10:03PM ET

MIDlog, J2ME bl0g posting client

MIDlog, J2ME bl0g posting client 05/06/2004 02:46 PM
looks like it's got a lot of potenital for an 0.1 release

Making sense of the J2ME alphabet soup

Making sense of the J2ME alphabet soup 05/29/2002 02:24 PM

Feature: iPod shuffle mods a hit online

Feature: iPod shuffle mods a hit online 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
The iPod shuffle has taken off with the do-it-yourself set. iPod shuffle mods have spawned their own websites, forums, and discussion groups. What explains the shuffle’s popularity with modders?

Spanish judge rules X-Box mods 'legal'

Spanish judge rules X-Box mods 'legal' 04/27/2004 10:28 AM
Intellectual property loophole

Make magazine is looking for car hacks
and mods ideas

Make magazine is looking for car hacks
and mods ideas 04/18/2005 02:41 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Make magazine is looking for neat car and vehicle hacking and modding projects -- adding computers, dashboard add-ons, performance enhancements, GPS tricks, and so on. If you done something like this and would like to write an article for Make about it, submit your idea here. Link

DOOM 3 Cheats, Hacks, benchmarking and
Mods

DOOM 3 Cheats, Hacks, benchmarking and
Mods 08/05/2004 10:50 AM

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