Motivation In diesem Artikel möchte ich euch den Einsatz von TDD schmackhaft machen. Es gibt viel zu viel schlechte Software und aus meiner Sicht hängt das zu großen Teilen daran, dass diese Software nicht genug getestet wurde. Auch wenn ein Großteil der Tests oft von dedizierten Testern gemacht wird, könnt ihr als Entwickler euren Beitrag…
Motivation Maintaining python packages for more than one python version can be a bit of a hassle In https://creatronix.de/how-to-use-tox-to-test-your-code-on-multiple-platforms/ I’ve introduced tox. An interesting alternative is nox(!) due to its programmatic approach Installation pip install nox Example Linting Let’s take a minimum viable example. In our main.py we intentionally omit the newline at the end…
Motivation Migrating old documentation from Microsoft Excel into Atlassian Confluence I was bamboozled that I couldn’t simply copy paste excel data into Confluence Tables. Duh! Googling around for a couple of minutes a provided solution looked like that: Convert Excel to markdown Use the “Insert markdown” macro in Confluence Excel to markdown There are several…
This article is a guest article from Maximilian Brenner Introduction Imagine you have 48 hours to find, implement and present a solution for a complex problem. In return you get sleep deprivation and maybe some money. A hackathon does not sound appealing at first. Nevertheless I have taken several of these competitions and now I…
Motivation Getting the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certificate is one of my goals from my New Year’s Resolutions and Technology Learning Roadmap 2023 So time to buckle up and learn about cloud concepts first! The Cloud tl;dr; the cloud is someone else’s computer 🙂 In general cloud computing means that you don’t pay for computer hardware…
tl;dr; software engineering is more than just typing code into an editor and let it run on a computer. Software engineering is a bundle of good practices, tools, methodologies and a certain mindset. Model I’ve “developed” this model with the intention to teach software engineering to our apprentices and interns which often did not have…
Motivation WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. It was developed by Google, and is designed to be smaller in size than other image formats, while still maintaining high image quality. One reason WebP is often considered better than JPEG is that it can…
Motivation Inspect and adapt & Iterative and incremental are the most basic agile principles. So, inspection of your process after every iteration can be done by a retrospective. Vegas Rule First some psychological safety: Vega’s Rule: What happens in a retro stays in the retro! Participants only want to share their insights and concerns when…
Motivation The DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) principle does not only apply to code but to mouse clicks as well: When you are repeatedly clicking buttons you might want to figure out some keyboard shortcuts. In Jetbrains IDEs like PyCharm you can use the plugin Key Promotor X to learn these shortcuts. Installation Open the File…
Challenge – Part 1 https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/3 Problem vJrwpWtwJgWrhcsFMMfFFhFp jqHRNqRjqzjGDLGLrsFMfFZSrLrFZsSL PmmdzqPrVvPwwTWBwg wMqvLMZHhHMvwLHjbvcjnnSBnvTQFn ttgJtRGJQctTZtZT CrZsJsPPZsGzwwsLwLmpwMDw The first rucksack contains the items vJrwpWtwJgWrhcsFMMfFFhFp, which means its first compartment contains the items vJrwpWtwJgWr, while the second compartment contains the items hcsFMMfFFhFp. The only item type that appears in both compartments is lowercase p. The second rucksack’s compartments contain jqHRNqRjqzjGDLGL and…