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Explore The Submission Galore
Let us confess, winters are not our favorite time of the year. They make us lazy and bring us a lot of work! And they also make us present to you something that we had launched way back in 2012 and you...
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Resurgence, Persistence and A Mystery Unveiled – January 2013 Challenge had...
It was that time of the month again when we sit down at our desks and watch the best programming minds around the globe lock horn with each other. And like always we were all excited about our first...
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Come Relive The ACMC ICPC Amritapuri Thrill This Weekend
If only there was a time machine, we all would have wanted to go to times where we have been and where we want to be. Sadly, it is still a far cry. However, though we don’t have a time machine, yet...
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January Cook-Off 2013 – A Tale Of A Wrong Turn and A Crash, On A Crowded Route
Use “first” as a prefix and suddenly everything becomes special. Be it the first bike, the first mobile, or the first videogame – they all have a special place in our heart even today. When we sat down...
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‘Fab’ruary
We are amongst those few who come up with a million ideas on a single day. We do not know what causes this, but it has worked for us nicely. On an otherwise mundane day of January, we got this fabulous...
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Is Your Institution on CodeChef?
We will be turning 4 by the end of this month and we still feel that we are in an embryonic stage. In our bid to evolve and mature, we bring in new changes that we believe help us to serve you better....
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CodeChef will be down for server maintenance
We will be taking down CodeChef along with its associated websites for server maintenance. Below are the details: Down from 6:00 AM (IST) Maintenance duration: 3 hours You can check your time zone...
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February Contest results
Falling to the fallacies of laziness is a recurring occurrence in our lives. However, somehow we overcame it once again, got our act together, and wrote this blog post summarizing the two February...
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CodeChef will be down for some database changes
CodeChef, along with its associated websites will be offline from 1:00 AM (IST) to 2:00 AM (IST), on 26th February, 2012 for bringing in some changes into the database. You can check your time zone...
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We just got Four’ier’ transformed
Yippy!!! We are four years younger now. Congratulations and celebrations!!! Of all the time related adages on the birthdays, we would quote Charles Richards - “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There...
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The color and mischief of March contests
This post is going live today, but do not let that fool you. We had just turned four the other day, and let us tell you once again that these have been four good years. And we celebrated too. With the...
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Moving into a New Kitchen.
It is a heart breaking time here. A marriage is coming to an end. It is time to get out of a 3 year old committed relationship. And it makes us sad. Our server has been the most committed one. It has...
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Progress report of April contests
There are plenty of reasons to cheer for April. If you are a student, it marks the beginning of long summer vacations and if you are a CodeChef user, it brings the monthly programming challenges. Those...
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… and we meet!
It was Star Wars day (May the 4th, 2013), and the “force” was certainly with us at the CodeChef Meetup. There weren’t firecrackers lighting up the sky and neither was there the greatest Jedi Master,...
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ACRush eclipsed
Coming out of a relationship isn’t the most pleasing feeling. We had just ended our 3-year-old relationship with our ever dependable server and entered into a new one with the cloud. Just like all new...
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CodeChef judge will be down
CodeChef judge SPOJ will be down between 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM IST today, i.e. 24th May 2012, for maintenance activity. You will not be able to access certain features of the website like the submitting...
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The late conquest of dzhulgakov
Everyone has his own reasons to be excited about a Sunday. For anyone who’s into competitive programing, nothing compares to the excitement of going up against some of the biggest names in the...
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CodeChef For Schools – Lets program a better tomorrow.
It was in the year 2009 that we had started CodeChef. The goal was clear. We wanted to improve and expand the Indian programming community. Over the last four years, we have taken some steps towards...
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Post June contests showers..
There are more reasons than just rains, behind the delay of this post. But, we wouldn’t get into those. Let’s just say, we took a prolonged “Lunch” break. But, now that we’ve taken a breather, let’s...
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Y U NO COME “X” YEARS EARLIER?
We have been asked this question many times. “Y U NO COME ‘X’ YEARS EARLIER?”. While we want to feel sorry about it, the least we can do is start now. Many a times, all of us here at CodeChef ponder on...
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