Facebook Hacker Cup

    The Facebook Hacker Cup qualification round results came out yesterday night. I had attempted 2 out of 3 questions and both of them came out correct. Yay! I am actually lucky to have solved 2 questions as I was procrastinating about solving another question after I submitted the first one. You need to submit only one correct solution to get qualified further. This procrastination cost me in terms of time penalty but we can ignore that.
    Here is the list of questions: https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/problems.php?pid=215823855164332&round=146094915502528
   As only 22 people all over the world solved 3 questions, I am cool with my result :)
 
   Now the round one starts at 10 am PT on 28th Jan which means it will start at 11:30pm India time :'( I can never work at night :(

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Exploiting facebook/twitter mobile facilities

We have seen many GPRS based applications for tweeting and updating your facebook status. But what to do if you want to tweet/update status without connecting to internet? Well, facebook and twitter have facilities where you can tweet/update status by simply sending a message to a certain number. You can use that technique in your application. For this you just have to know the method for sending a message from your mobile. If you are coding in C# it is very simple to do.
You just have to writing the following code:
->Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook.SmsMessage sms = new SmsMessage(number,text);
->sms.Send();
In case of facebook the number will be:923223265 and for twitter it is:53000.
Another thing that needs to be kept in mind is that, you need to add
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook in the references.

This is a simple way to keep your app different from others.Though C# is used for programming for windows mobile.

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