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January 2nd, 2010 | 
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After competing in many SRMs, I realized that I had to use good TopCoder Arena plugins to achieve the fastest coding experience. I have been using FileEdit + CodeProcessor + some tester plugins before, and I was quite satisfied with their performance during SRMs.
The most vital plugin is probably the tester plugin, because with a single click in my IDE, all sample testcases will be run. There is no need to click many buttons in the Arena to run the testcases.
However, as a programmer, I am interested to create my own tester plugin. So, here is my BETA version of the plugin, called TesterDream. Please have a try!
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Vim (Vi Improved) is one of the most popular text editor in the world. It’s cross platform and text-based, and, of course free and open source.
Although there are many GUI-based programming editor out there, like Geany, Code::Blocks, etc., I always stick with vim to do programming contest tasks. That’s because its commands are efficient and different from most editors. Once you master the commands and combinations, you can type FASTER than your friends! That’s an important factor in contest.
Ubuntu is a great OS to program on. If you usually program in Pascal, you can do that in Ubuntu! In Ubuntu, the default Pascal compiler is Free Pascal. Here’s how to install and use Free Pascal in Ubuntu 9.04.
