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I like visiting ScalaUA conference in Kiev every year in March or April. I did so in 2017, 2018 and 2019. So for 2020 it was kind of difficult to perform a regular conference. So there are two options, either it could have been cancelled or it could have been postponed. That is what all …
Apple has reinvented itself radically many times and done so when things were still going well. This is part of the companies success story. And the CEO Tim Cook apparently plans to continue with this strategy. Major reinventions where: Moving from the Apple II to Macintosh Dropping System 9 and replacing it by the totally …
„Apple giving up on information technology“ weiterlesen
The original Skillsmatter company has gone into administration and will be closed down, once all claims have been settled. Now investors have bought assets of this old company, apparently including the name and the brand, and are now operating und the same name and webdomain skillmatter.com. This is a new company with new management and …
„Skillsmatter working again“ weiterlesen
This article is highly inspired by the blog post We need tool support for keyset pagination. Please consider reading the original first and then my interpretation and additional thoughts about this idea. We have a typical database base backed web application. It can be a rich client. It can be a NoSQL database. Whatever, but …
„Pagination of Database Query Results“ weiterlesen
Even though we do have IDEs with quite powerful refactoring mechanisms for many languages, it is still sometimes useful, to have another automated editing mechanism. Why would that be the case? Some examples: In some cases there was an SQL script to create the database tables, which had been written first. From that classes and …
„Perl Scripts for editing“ weiterlesen
We start recognizing that Serialization is not such a good idea. It is cool and can really work on a wide range of objects, even including complex and cyclic reference graphs. And it was essential for some older Java frameworks like EJB and RMI, which allowed remote access to Java objects and classes. But it …
„JSON instead of Java Serialization: The solution?“ weiterlesen
Many projects have these „project-local“ or „company-local“ libraries, that can be used optionally or are even strongly imposed on developers. They may be called something like core toolkit toolbox base platform utils lib common framework baselib sdk tools or even with a meaningful good name. Generally there is nothing wrong with such libraries, if they …
„Project-local Libraries“ weiterlesen
Ironically Scala at first drew my interest, because I discovered that about ten years ago there was no really good understanding of how to do a good multithreading concept for Perl 6. I thought exploring how they do it in Scala, where it was already known to be good at that time, would give a …
„Perl and Scala: what can they learn from each other?“ weiterlesen
Most data that we deal with are strings or numbers or booleans and combinations of these into classes and collections. Dates can be expressed as string or number, but have enough specific logic to be seen as a fourth group of data. All these have interesting aspects, some of which have been discussed in this …
„Phone Numbers and E-Mail Addresses“ weiterlesen
Orthodox Christmas 2019/2020 in Ukraine and probably some other countries is on 2020-01-07. God Jul! — Feliĉan Kristnaskon! — ميلاد مجيد — Natale hilare! — Hyvää Joulua! — Срећан Божић! — Prettige Kerstdagen! — クリスマスおめでとう ; メリークリスマス — З Рiздвом Христовим! — Buon Natale! — Joyeux Noël! — С Рождеством! — Frohe Weihnachten! — ¡Feliz …
„Orthodox Christmas 2019/2020“ weiterlesen