Aug 2, 2025 · 4 min read · 🚀 How I Reduced an 8-Hour Legacy Extraction Script to 2 Hours (Without Breaking Things) 🧩 Background I was asked to urgently review a legacy data extraction script that had started failing during high-load scenarios. The script was originally desig...
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Jul 7, 2024 · 10 min read · Introduction When we talk about the "nuts and bolts" of something, we refer to the essential components and mechanisms that make it work. In the context of scripting languages and GUI toolkits, these "nuts and bolts" include the core syntax, paradigm...
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Jul 18, 2022 · 16 min read · Background Introduction Parts 2 (Tcl), 3 (GO), and 4 (Crystal) of this series presented a formula-based solution to calculate count sequences that comprise a unique data set based on a given index. To further develop our application, we calculate th...
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Jun 21, 2022 · 7 min read · Multiset Combinations: Formula-Based Solution In Part 1 of this series, we presented a multiset and displayed all of the unique combinations on the console. We used an algorithm that worked like an odometer where the count of a given element served...
Join discussionJun 18, 2022 · 3 min read · What is a multiset? A Multiset contains one or more groups of like elements or items. For example, AAAA BBB CC D is a multiset comprised of four groups of letters. How many Unique Combinations? The number of unique combinations is the product of t...
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