Keep it simple, stupid! When we first released our tool to the end user, we proudly named it v1.0.0. This is called semantic versioning – major.minor.patch Makes sense for libraries where a minor change e.g. 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 means interface compatibility, just some new functions. A major change e.g. 1.0.0 to 2.0.0 means “Attention, I…
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…