Future Mobility Days 2017

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€…

Short Rewiew t3n magazine Q2-2017

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…

Are You ready? / jQuery struggle

$(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(){ });

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…

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”…