After carrying around my iPhone 6 for two and a half years I finally wanted to know how to build an iOS app. Getting started I used this tutorial from apple and rolled with the punches: Installing XCode takes ages! Download 4,6 GB 🙁 First issue: when accidentally making the wrong connection between a UI-Element…
In New Year’s Resolutions & Technology Learning Roadmap 2017 I listed all my tech and non-tech objectives for 2017. Here is a quick update: After I bought my new Mac Book I asked myself: “Why haven’t I tried to develop an iOS app before?” Well, I think it had something to do with Objective-C which…
SE-Radio Episode 281: James Whittaker on Career Strategy In Episode 281 of SE Radio James Whittaker shares his knowledge on career strategy. James Whittaker was Engineering Director at Google before he left for a position at Microsoft. He also wrote the book “How Google tests Software” In his medium article he tells us why he…
After I visited my first barcamp (#SWEC16) in 2016 I wanted to participate in my first hackathon in 2017. I stumpled upon the Future Mobility Days #FMDNUE in Nuremberg, which offerd a bar camp, a design thinking jam and a hackathon all at once at on place within 36 hours. All in all for 99€…
Being sick at home can become quite boring after a couple of days so I was happy today as I opened the mail box: (Yes, the physical one?) the new t3n magazine! Yeah! Nice cover! First of all I remove all advertising garbage by shaking the magazine, but lo and behold, there are some nice…
$(function() { console.log( “ready!” ); }); is the short form for: $( document ).ready(function() { console.log( “ready!” ); }); Very unintuitive, this does not work: $(“input#myInput”).bind(“change”, function(){ }); Instead of “change” You have to use “input” $(“input#myInput”).bind(“input”, function(){ });
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
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;…
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…
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…