The Key to Solving CodeEval’s Bay Bridges Challenge

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The Bay Bridges Challenge is one of the more difficult challenges on CodeEval (or at least it was for me!), primarily due to the fact that you’re not just looking for any set of bridges that can be built without intersecting, but that you’re looking for the largest possible set of bridges that do not … Read more

Fix for “`require’: cannot load such file” Error

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While working through Chapter 3 of the RailsTutorial for Rails 4.0, I encountered an error when running the first integration test using RSpec. Upon running the command: for the first time, I got the following error: It appears this is caused by a bug in version 2.0.0 of the ‘selenium-webdriver’ gem. If you change the … Read more

Scraping a DIV Element from a Web Page with PHP

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I recently read an article about CodeEval, a free gamified website for ranking developers, and bringing employers and developers together. Essentially, a developer can sign up, complete coding challenges, and earn badges and a “Hacker Ranking” that will compare his or her skills to others who have signed up on the site. Also, completing some … Read more