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Not sure what happens with the formatted code which seems to display well and sometimes it does not. The good thing is that the entire code is in my GitHub repository. Sorry about the inconvenience. If you have a formatter for Word Press that you like and is reliable, please let me know.
I received a message from a reader of my blog requesting some clarification on my original solution and associated post Down to Zero II. The associated post was from 2016. The initial code was not in my GitHub repository. Sorry about that.
After reading the message (which I keep private unless told otherwise) I went to GitHub and created a new repository. I added a short and simple README.md file and cloned the repo to one of my Windows 10 computers.
I then copied the original solution.java file and opened it using VSCode. The original code was developed using the Eclipse IDE. In the past year or so I have switched to VSCode for C++, Java, and Python. Continue reading “Down to Zero – Revisited”
In the past few weeks I have been reading several articles about how great Visual Studio Code is and how software developers are starting to use as their main IDE. I have been using VS Code on and off but have made up my mind that from now on for Java development I will only use Visual Studio Code. I have installed Eclipse and IntelliJ in my machine, both of which I have used for Java development. I will leave both of them installed for compatibility purpose only. Will let you know my findings towards the end of the year. 
Last weekend my wife and I stopped to visit our son who also lives in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. On our last trip to Europe, our granddaughters asked us if we could get for their dad a bottle of flavored vodka in the duty free store in the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. At the time looked like a good idea. He seems to enjoy vodka. When we returned home the girls gave their dad the bottle. 
Currently we live in a world of deception. The overflow of data that we are exposed to every day via news channels, companies and social media streams does not allow us to easily distinguish what is true, what is somewhat true and what are just plain lies.
It is Friday and it has been a long week and I am feeling somewhat tired. My wife and I have been invited for dinner at one of her brother’s house. I am looking forward to decompress later today.
It is Thursday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the sun is shining. Later this afternoon my wife and I will go walking for an hour. Not too many days left before it gets really cold and start to snow.
I am writing a white paper on Agile. Hope to get done by the end of this week. I will be looking where to start posting it and future ones besides this blog.
This past week my wife, our granddaughters and I returned from a holiday trip to Europe. We visited several cities in Italy, Belgium and Amsterdam. We flew commercial airlines to move between large cities. This made me think of airplane routes and filling up the tanks with fuel. For efficiency reasons airplanes do not get refueled on each stop if it can be avoided. Depending on the part of the world you travel to, airplanes have minimum amounts of fuel they must have on board when they takeoff. The amount depends on the distance to the next stop. I know a few things about the subject because I flew for fun private planes for a few years. For personal reasons (wife and family) I decided to stop. 
It is a gloomy Tuesday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It rained last night. It is quite damp. It is a typical fall day in this part of the country. The only difference is that in the past two years the lawns are green instead of being brown. I do not know for sure the cause for the climate change which is a very controversial topic, but for sure something is changing.