Christmas 2019

Joyeux Noël! — ميلاد مجيد — Crăciun fericit! — God Jul! — God Jul! — Natale hilare! — С Рождеством! — З Рiздвом Христовим! — Prettige Kerstdagen! — Hyvää Joulua! — クリスマスおめでとう ; メリークリスマス — καλά Χριστούγεννα! — Buon Natale! — Срећан Божић! — Frohe Weihnachten! — ¡Feliz Navidad! — Feliĉan Kristnaskon! — Merry Christmas! …

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Ranges of Dates and Times

In Software we often deal with ranges of dates and times. Let us look at it from the perspective of an end user. When we say something like „from 2020-03-07 to 2019-03-10“ we mean the set of all timestamps such that     or more accurately:     Important is, that we mean to include …

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Functional Scala London 2019

In December 2019 I attended the conference Functional Scala in London which was initiated and managed by John de Goes. See Skillsmatter about what happened to Scala Exchange. Of course a large part of the conference was related to ZIO, which seems to be a part of the eco system surrounding Scala with a lot …

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Visit to reClojure in London 2019

On 2019-12-02 I visited the conference reClojure. This was an admirable community effort to create a replacement for ScalaExchange, which simply did not happen because of the bankruptcy of Skillsmatter. There was only one track, so the schedule is exactly what I visited. I will just copy it below, because schedules from conference sites usually …

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How to get rid of these HTML-entities in Files

It has been written here that HTML-entities (these ä etc) should be avoided with the exception of those that we need due to the HTML-syntax like <, >, & and maybe " and  . They were already mostly obsolete more than 20 years ago, but in those days we still did not automatically use UTF-8 …

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