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The Problem

Imagine you have a binary tree where as shown above. You may be aware of InOrder traversal where you follow a scheme of visiting left subtree and then visit root node and finally visit right subtree. With small variations in order same is done in pre-order as well as post-order traversal. How do you do a breadth first traversal? It is slightly more tricky. Doing it non-recursively is even more difficult at first sight. Let me first explain what is breadthfirst traversal.

Different traversals produce different output as shown below

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1 12 23 46 89 445 461 678 789

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1 12 89 46 23 461 789 678 445

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445 23 12 1 46 89 678 461 789

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445 23 678 12 46 461 789 1 89

Oracle Jet is a beautiful toolkit for simplifying lot of tasks. ojInputText is a basic editor the framework provides, it can validate the text entered based on the regular expression we give, but validation only happens on blur and if we simply want to filter any keystrokes that don’t match that, we can’t do it by default.

Here is the result before we go and learn how to do it.

See the Pen Allow only numbers in OjInputText by Buddha (@jbuddha) on CodePen.

Ofcourse we can use ojInputNumber and use the example they gave for eating non-numbers, but what if we don’t want the increment and decrement the arrows of ojInputNumber. One way to do it is to bind a keyUp event and check everytime a character is pressed. Infact this is the approach that is used for the example given in OracleJet cookbook.

Here is an alternative approach using ojInputText. Instead of bindng to value, we can bind to rawValue attribute. This ensures that the observable gets updated on every keystroke.

Here is a moderate problem of CodeJam’s qualification round of 2016. The Jam Coins. It is an interesting problem which gives a glimpse into another popular virtual currency, bit-coin mining. Here is the description of the problem. You need to generate jamcoins of either 16 digits for small dataset or 32 digits for large datasets. Jam Coins follow the given rules…

1. A Jam Coin is only made up of 1’s & 0’s of the required number of digits.
2. It begins and ends with 1.
3. If that interpreted from base 2 to base 10, it should not be a prime number in any of them.

For Small dataset, you need to generate 50 jam coins of 16 digits and for large dataset, you need to generate 500 jam coins of 32 digits following above rules.

We use Dyn/Admin for many of the development related tasks of Oracle Commerce(ATG). However, the log-in ticket expires too frequently forcing us to enter credentials repeatedly. Some times we will also have to give both application server(weblogic/jboss) credentials and dynamo administration credentials. As we are not in a production critical environment where multiple people may access our DynAdmin and create issues, it is not necessary to have this security check every time we try to open DynAdmin of our development environment. I have found following solutions to be free of this issue. This can come in handy when we are doing active development and have to frequently access dynamo administration.

Solution 1 - Enable lazyAthentication

This approach works by enabling Lazy Athentication which means login will only be asked once per session. This means, as long as the session is not expired, dyn/admin will not ask for credentials again.

Perforce is a proprietary version controlling system. It has been around for more than 20 years. However, one glaring limitation always bugs the users. The inability to generate proper diff files.

First step is to download the Perforce Patcher jar. Just double click the jar file to run it.

Upon opening the application you will be presented with the login screen. Login with your regular perforce credentials, deselect Remember me, if you don’t want to store the data entered by you locally. By leaving the default value your credentials will be saved in the application cache so that you need not enter it again.

If the login is successful, you will be taken to the next screen otherwise check the Log pane for error. Select the local perforce workspace name and the change list id and click Generate Patch button and save the file at your preferred location through the Save dialog which pops up.

Once you are done with generating the patch, you can quit the application. You will be automatically logged out upon closing it.

You can find the project and its source in github. If you like the project, and want to contribute by adding more features, please fork the github repo. It is a maven project so building it is as quick as a wink.