SE-Radio Episode on Rust
Luckily I stumbled upon the Software Engineering Radio Episode on Rust. SE-Radio Episode 279: Florian Gilcher on Rust Main Takeaways Iron – A Web Application Framework in Rust Habitat – for application automation
Inefficient jQuery Selectors
My PyCharm IDE warns me if I use inefficient jQuery selectors: As I am a bit nosy I wanted to know “how” inefficient these selectors are. So I compared the inefficient $(“#items tbody”); with the optimized $(“#items”).find(“tbody”); Here is the test code: window.onload = function () { test(“unoptimized”, function () { for(var i = 0;…
Bringing AJAX to Flask
Flask is a micro web framework which is really fun to use. With the following snippet You have a complete web app working within seconds. from flask import Flask # 1 app = Flask(__name__) # 2 @app.route(‘/’) # 3 def hello_world(): return ‘Hello World!’ if __name__ == ‘__main__’: app.run() #4 All this snippet does is…
Thoughts on Personal Finance
Care about your money because no one else will do! Some people like bankers or insurance brokers claim to care about your money. What they really care about is how they can make as much as possible of your money their money. When I started working at my first job I made the mistake to…
Code Kata: Converting old ICQ chat logs to html
Enough about books for a while. Let’s do some coding finger exercise. When I migrated from my Windows XP machine to my MacBook I made a backup of my old ICQ chats. Because I wanted to read what my wife and I chatted about ten years ago I tried to convert the old logs into…
Books I will read in 2017
In 2016 I started to build up my library and got a lot of recommendations for cool books. (Thanks Timo, Michy, Jürgen, Achim) Here is my list
Review “Managing Oneself” by Peter Drucker
Calling this book a “book” is a bit exaggerated. It contains only 60 pages which I assume you can read in under one hour. Nevertheless if you haven’t encountered the work of Peter Drucker yet, this is the place to start. The Author Peter Drucker is best known for his concept of “Management by Objectives”…
My reading habits over the years
As a child and teenager I read a lot, mostly fictional books. I often went to the library and got lots of books as a birthday or Christmas present. Astrid Lindgren Tonke Dragt Wolfgang Hohlbein On of my favorite authors at that time was Ken Follet. I read through the 1000+ pages of the Pillars…
Review “The Passionate Programmer”
About the Author Chad Fowler is best know for being CTO of 6Wunderkinder after its exit to Microsoft. Before he was Senior Vice President of Technology at LivingSocial. The Book Fun fact: the first edition of this book was titled “My Job Went to India: 52 Ways To Save Your Job” Fowler found this title…
Review WordPress App
After I had updated my WordPress installation I accidentally found the WordPress app for iOS. And it is great for two things: uploading your smartphone photos into an article and writing sketches on the go. If you get along well with the smartphone keyboard you can even write complete articles with this app Multiples Sites…