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In the old days we used svn, cvs, rcs or other systems for source code management, that allowed enabling something like svn:keywords. This resulted in certain strings in the source code being replaced by strings containing some version information. More often than we might think these were useful. The question „what version are we running?“ …
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Un an nou fericit! — Onnellista uutta vuotta! — Feliĉan novan jaron! — Καλή Χρονια! — ¡Feliz año nuevo! — С новым годом! — FELIX SIT ANNUS NOVUS — Godt nytt år! — Щасливого нового року! — Frohes neues Jahr! — Felice anno nuovo! — Bonne année! — Gott nytt år! — Срећна нова година! …
„Happy New Year 2020“ weiterlesen
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! …
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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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 …
„Functional Scala London 2019“ weiterlesen
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 …
„Visit to reClojure in London 2019“ weiterlesen
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 …
„How to get rid of these HTML-entities in Files“ weiterlesen
In 2019 I visited Devoxx UA in Kiev and Devoxx BE in Antwerp. Traveling was actually a little story by itself, so for now we can just assume that I magically was at the locations of DevoxxUA and DevoxxBE. In Kiew I attended the following talks: Probabilistic data structures in nutshell (in Ukrainian) [Oleksandra Kulyk] …
„Devoxx UA and Devoxx BE 2019“ weiterlesen
Travelling to this years Devoxx conferences is worth its own short article, even though it is not very IT oriented material… On the last weekend in October I brought a bicycle to a place near Frankfurt, let’s call it FrankfurtE. I took the train to Karlruhe and then back from FrankfurtE, but cycled from Karlsruhe …
„Travelling to Devoxx UA and Devoxx BE 2019“ weiterlesen
The company Skillsmatter in London has been put „under administration“ and basically stopped its operations. The web site seems to suggest, that everything is still ok, but that is not the case and I have heard so from several sources. The owner Wendy Devolder writes on Twitter and on Linkedin. Or here are some more …
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