From time to time you have annoying things to do which you cannot avoid e.g. split names into surname and last name. Here comes the flash fill feature: Given you have the full names in column A Go to cell B1 and enter the last name Go to B2 Go to tab “Data” Click Flash…
Motivation As you become more experienced as a developer you will start to work on becoming more efficient instead of only being effective. Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to achieve tasks quicker. Shortcut Action Ctrl + X/C/V 🙂 Alt + Tab Switching between programs Ctrl + Tab Switch between tabs in programs Win +…
After visiting my first bar camp last year, I became quite an aficionado of craftsmanship gatherings. I visited: SWEC16 FMD 2017 DevCamp 2017 MQ! 2017 Management 3.0 Stammtisch All very different formats, locations and price ranges as well. So I was curious what was going to happen at #bcwue. The location The event took place…
A short checklist to keep up with the stress in my daily work life: Develop healthy habits Read about the “aggregation of marginal gains” or the 1% rule here or here Eat healthy An apple a day keeps the doctor away Drink more water -> place a motivational bottle in reach Stay healthy Wash hands…
In 2006 I bought my first Bosch IXO. It did a wonderful job over the last years and helped a lot assemble and disassemble mostly furniture. (I moved 3 times in the last ten years) But when we started to renovate our bureau at home the switch for changing directions started to get a slack…
Sometimes You get to something by sheer chance: Scrolling down my Facebook timeline I saw the ad for the Audi MQ! Why do I have to register? After visiting a couple of bar camps I was curious how Audi was organizing a conference. So the first thing notably different to all events I’ve visited…
Dealing with KnockoutJS I came across some newer features of the JavaScript language ES6 TL;DR: don’t use var anymore when You declare variables. Some examples:
Updateception! I registered for the event “The Mobility Quotient” which features Steve Wozniak and Jimmy Wales as keynote speaker! It will take place on September 7th/8th in Ingolstadt. I am stoked! I started to learn knockout.js therefor I will drop MeteorJS from my list. Instead of dealing with npm, I will try out yarn for a…
Trying to contribute to the Flask plugin flask-login I just added these lines: if isinstance(duration, (int, long)): duration = timedelta(seconds=duration) Looking quite plausible, isn’t it? But lo and behold: it doesn’t work under Python 3.x. Dang! The reason: Python 2 has two integer types: int and long. In Python 3 there is only int, which…
I pity the fool who hasn’t got a tool! After buying cheap tools all my life I’ve decided that I became too old for 5€ screwdriver. Our working student Michael Jäger introduced me to the brand PB Swiss Tools. They have lifelong guarantee on their tools and have some nice ideas like colorcoding their bits…