Google is terminating its Google+ service, at least the consumer version. For this reason I have removed the „share on google+ buttons“.
Google+ will be shut down
Autor-Archive: bk1
WordPress-Plugin destabilizes WordPress Installation – How to Fix
I had a plugin installed in WordPress. And had it activated. Then I got an error message like „Fatal error: Undefined class constant ‚plugin_version‘ in /www/htdocs/w00fb338/wp-content/plugins/share-on-diaspora/admin.php on line 17“, whenever I went to any admin or authoring functionality of my blog. Just reading it seemed to work fine. So there was no way to go …
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LongDecimal
Disclaimer: This article is an occasion, where you might need some of the presumably useless mathematics that you might have learned in school and university. If this bothers you, maybe you should wait for the next article in about two weeks time. LongDecimal is a library that I have provided for Ruby. It is available …
Some thoughts about testing
We all do a bit of testing, if we are in IT. Even if I would by no means call myself a professional test engineer or test manager, I could make some observation about the topic. I did hear a lot of times, that testing is kind of the easy task in the IT industry, …
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Internetexplorer and Microsoft Edge discontinued
It seems that Microsoft will discontinue development of its Edge Browser, which was meant to be an replacement for Internet Explorer. Instead they will base it on Google Chromium, so they will use the same HTML- and JavaScript-Engine as Google Chrome and the open source variant Chromium. The HTML- and JS-Engines of Edge will not …
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TruffleRuby
The language Ruby is one of the most beautiful languages. A lot of things can be done, it has a good level of abstraction, it has chosen some very good defaults, has provided some great ideas that I have not discovered in any other language that I know well and provides a lot of flexibility. …
Documentation…
As developers we get often asked to write more, better and earlier documentation. While it is very important and useful, to have the right documentation when needed and more often than not we are lacking important documentation, it is also important to avoid writing too much documentation. This applies to all levels of documentation, including …
Tips and Tricks: Typing Unicode
I found this on netzwolf.info: You can enter arbitrary Unicode characters (more precisely code points) in X11 on Linux, if you know their Hex-Code: Press Shift-Ctrl (keep them pressed) Press also the letter u Release the Ctrl-Key Release the u-key Keep the Shift-key pressed Enter the Hex-Code of the Code point with the number of …
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Orthodox Christmas 2018/2019
Orthodox Christmas in some countries, for example in Ukraine is on 7th of January. So to all readers, who have Christmas on 7th of January: С Рождеством! — Hyvää Joulua! — καλά Χριστούγεννα! — Buon Natale! — Prettige Kerstdagen! — З Рiздвом Христовим! — Merry Christmas! — Срећан Божић! — God Jul! — ¡Feliz Navidad! …
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How to draw lines, circles and other curves
These ideas were developed more than 30 years without knowing that they were already known at that time… Today the graphics cards can easily do things like this in very little time. And today’s CPUs are of course really good at multiplying. So this has lost a lot of its immediate relevance, but it is …
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