Challenge – Part 1 https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/2 Example For example, suppose you were given the following strategy guide: A Y B X C Z This strategy guide predicts and recommends the following: In the first round, your opponent will choose Rock (A), and you should choose Paper (Y). This ends in a win for you with a…
After solving Part 1 of Day 1 I could unlock the second challenge. It’s a slight variation of the first. Find the top three Elves carrying the most Calories. How many Calories are those Elves carrying in total? calories = “””1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 10000″”” The test data stays the…
Motivation Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. As I already tried some of the puzzles last year I wanted to see how far I could get this year. Registration To be…
Motivation Agile retrospective are a great tool to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your team. They also may improve the overall satisfaction of your co-workers when done properly. So here are some rules Ten rules for agile retros: #10 – A Retro always takes 90 minutes #9 – Time Boxing 5 min – Set…
Invitation When we did the interview with Christoph Menzel he invited me to the meetup Let’s talk about web security Location Brucklyn Hall Coworking Some impressions The Talks Built-in security – Secure web apps with browser-based features Clemens Hübner did a talk about browser based security. WebAuthn WebCryptoAPI Content Security Policy OWASP Juice Shop Michael…
Motivation Inspired by automate the boring stuff and motivated by my last automation attempts, I wanted to see if there is more stuff which can be automated. Creating YouTube thumbnails is one of the time consuming tasks I tried to simplify. Installation Pillow is a fork of PIL the Python Imaging Library. We can install…
Motivation When dealing with databases you will need the ability to store certain dates and/or timestamps in your tables. Let’s find out how you can do that in an SQLite database. SQL table creation SQLite has the data type TIMESTAMP for storing date-times CREATE TABLE social_media ( social_media_id INTEGER, insertion_date TIMESTAMP, yt_subs INTEGER fb_pg INTEGER…
Today we did an interview with Christoph Menzel Head of Mobile & Web Development at inovex. Hi Christoph! Thanks for taking the time. Can you tell us about yourself? How did you become a software engineer? That is a very good question 🙂 I started as an apprentice IT specialist for system integration. So I…
Motivation If you had less menial manual work you could sit at the beach and relax more often 🙂 So regarding my pain points I figured out that publishing articles to my blog takes a huge amount of time too. In order to publish an article I need to: Log in into the WordPress backend…
Motivation Inspired by the session at BarCamp Regensburg I started to think about pain points in my workflow. I figured out that the conversion of my photos was too cumbersome. Before When writing articles I download the images from my phone via AirDrop to my Mac. Apple stores images in the HEIC format on my…