Motivation When writing Python packages you often have to assure that the packages can be used on different platforms and Python versions e.g. the package must work under Python 3.8 on Linux as well as with Python 3.9 on Windows. But how do you test all those supported OS and version combinations? Enter tox History…
Motivation Sometimes a task which should be easy can be hard to accomplish in practice. Manipulating nested dictionaries in Python seems to be such a task. Without dotty Accessing nested dictionaries looks like this: data = { ‘a’: { ‘b’: { ‘c’: ‘d’ } } } assert data[‘a’][‘b’][‘c’] == ‘d’ You have to chain the…
A horrifying amount of business is still driven by Microsoft Excel. Need some stats? Excel. Need some number crunching? Excel Most of the time you can work with formulas in your sheet and you will be fine. But sometimes you need more power: Time to level up your VBA skills History VBA stands for “Visual…
Sometimes it’s nice to know where you are. import java.nio.file.Paths fun main() { val cwd = Paths.get(“”).toAbsolutePath() println(cwd.toString()) }
Before Kotlin BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(“data.txt”)); try { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String line = br.readLine(); while (line != null) { sb.append(line); sb.append(System.lineSeparator()); line = br.readLine(); } String content = sb.toString(); } finally { br.close(); } This is a code sample reading a files content in plain old Java. What a mess…
Motivation Whether you need credentials to log into a system or some configuration parameters for your application, the .env concept might help you. Installation pip install python-dotenv Usage .env file Create an .env file in your project root folder You should not share this file or commit/push it to your version control. You should add…
Dependency First you need to add the following dependency to your build.gradle file dependencies { testImplementation ‘org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test’ As a second step you need to add the task test { useJUnitPlatform() } Implementation When you are familiar with JUnit you may recognized the @Test annotation. Assertions work pretty much the same. You can choose from a…
Motivation Learning a programming language can be challenging. Although there are tons of articles and tutorials for learning languages the most important thing is to transfer your knowledge to other real world problems. The challenges The coding challenges are language agnostic so you can use any modern language which supports writing command line applications. Write…
Aufbau einer entwicklungs-begleitenden Software-Qualitätssicherung In meiner Zeit als Software-Entwickler bei mgm technology partners und der e.solutions GmbH durfte ich zweimal eine entwicklungsbegleitende Qualitätssicherung aufbauen. Bei mgm technology partners konnten wir im ERiC (Elster Rich Client) die Neufehlerrate pro Release um 90% senken. Bei e.solutions begleiteten wir das Audi Virtual Cockpit in die drei ersten SOPs…
This is the overview page for my little Kotlin tutorial Learning Kotlin Part 1 – print Learning Kotlin Part 2 – arrays Learning Kotlin Part 3 – ranges Learning Kotlin Part 4 – conditionals Learning Kotlin Part 5 – loops Learning Kotlin Part 6 – functions Learning Kotlin Part 7 – multiple return values Reading…