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Coder of the Month
- June
Algorithm
jbernadas:
SRM 407: 2760
SRM 406: 2588
SRM 404: 2458


Design
woodjhon:
Four 1st places wins
One 2nd place win


Development
BeBetter:
Five 1st places wins
Five 2nd place wins


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Survey News
07.24.08
2:00 PM
Survey: What websites are you hitting?

TopCoder wants to know what other developer websites you're hitting most frequently. Well, besides ours of course! Thanks for taking our survey.
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Tournament News
07.23.08
11:00 AM
Betfair SRM 410 Chat Transcript Available

Betfair representatives met with members in the Arena to discuss their career opportunities. Check it out!
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Component Competition News
07.22.08
10:30 PM
Use the New TC Battle Widget to Vote for Your Favorite Truveo Apps!

The $100,000 Truveo Developer Challenge has come to a close, and now is your chance to help pick one TopCoder Community Favorite from the 96 submitted applications. The TC favorite counts for 20% of the app's final score, and we've built a Voting Widget just for the occasion. Check out the widget, check out the apps, and let us know what you think in the forums!
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Problem Set & Analysis
07.21.08
2:00 PM
SRM 410 - Problem Set & Analysis

In both divisions, coders faced 1000-point problems that were even tougher than I'd anticipated. In Division 1, the hard problem received only two submissions, neither of which passed. In the end, the battle was between Eryx and krijgertje.
Author
by bmerry
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Tournament News
07.18.08
12:00 PM
Betfair Chat prior to SRM 410

Join Betfair representatives for a chat session about their exciting career opportunities. The chat will take place at 11:00 EDT (GMT/UTC -4).
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Feature Article
07.17.08
3:00 PM
Generating random numbers with C++ TR1

In previous articles, I have looked at how to generate various random distributions of one variable, and random collections of variables. Those articles assumed only a random number generator that produced random numbers in some fixed range, such as the C rand() function. In this article, I'll look at a specific random number library, and how it can simplify random number generation.
Author
by bmerry
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Press Releases & Articles
07.17.08
12:00 PM
InfoWorld: Five Web 2.0 dev lessons for enterprise IT [PDF]

Application development 2.0 emphasizes quick, incremental updates, along with heavy user involvement, and can be beneficial for some enterprises.
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General TopCoder News
07.16.08
10:00 AM
Facebook Application Build at TopCoder Studio!

We have just launched a contest over on Studio to build the 'Facebook GamesMap Application'. The competition runs for ten days, and there's $5000 in prize money up for grabs. Check it out!
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Marathon Match News
07.15.08
1:00 PM
Marathon Matches added to Event Calendar

Marathon Matches have been added to the Event Calendar through December.
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Tournament News
07.15.08
12:30 PM
VeriSign SRM 409 Chat Transcript Available

VeriSign representatives met with members in the Arena to discuss DDoS Threats and Mitigation Strategies. Check it out!
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Problem Set & Analysis
07.14.08
12:30 PM
SRM 409 - Problem Set & Analysis

In the SRM 409 we witnessed many great performances, fast submissions and high scores. The top three rated topcoders ACRush, tomek and Petr fought to the last seconds of the challenge phase to claim the match win.
Author
by slex
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Feature Article
07.10.08
5:00 PM
Meet the June 2008 Coders of the Month

This month we caught up with jbernadas, June's Algorithm Coder of the Month, woodjhon, June's Design Coder of the Month, BeBetter, June's Development Coder of the Month, and djackmania, June's Studio Designer of the Month, to learn a little bit more about them, their proudest TopCoder moments, and anything else they wish to share with the community.
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