Christmas 2020

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

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Functional Scala

I participated online in the conference „Functional Scala 2020“ in London. That it was in London had mostly one relevance, which was the time zone. There was no physical location and all talks were done online. An interesting idea was a virtual location. It consisted of rooms and we could move a dot representing ourselves …

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Unix and Linux

When Linux appeared in the first half of the 1990’s, I used to hear a lot: „yes, this is a nice thing, but it is not a real Unix“. So why was there a different name, even though it was behaving almost the same? It was Posix, but Unix was a trademark, that could not …

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Orthodox Christmas 2019/2020

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 …

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How to replace svn:keywords?

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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Happy New Year 2020

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! …

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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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Poor mans profiling with LOGs

We have professional profiling tools and we should use them.. They give really useful and extensive information. So why bother about doing „poor man’s profiling“? About ten years ago, running profilers was kind of constrained to very small examples and computers with really huge memory. We have this huge memory now on every development machine. …

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50 years of internet

According to some the RFC1, which was published on 1969-04-07, was the start of the internet. Many RFCs have since this time been published and they describe the standards of the internet. The early internet did contain functionality to communicate between computers, but it did of course not include http, html and the WWW, which …

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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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