Tablet Computers

The idea of tablet computers is actually quite old and it has been tried a couple of times, at least up to prototypes. Probably a certain level of hardware and software was needed to make them both useful and affordable for enough people to become a mass product. This is actually a quite common thing. …

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User Friendliness

I have made an interesting observation in terms of user friendliness. Let’s call it an anti-pattern… I had booked a flight in the internet. Now the ticket was a number, which they sent to me by SMS. I went to the page of the airline and tried to do the check-in, in order to get …

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Eatable Devices

Wearable devices have become normal and it is hard to buy clothes these days that do not actually belong to this category. If you don’t know, the NSA knows. The new trend are eatable devices. It has been quite a challenge to create chips and batteries that can be chewed and swallowed without pain and …

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Do we still need Experts when everything is in the Internet

We find a lot of information about pretty much everything on the internet. We do not have to remember things because we are always online and always able to find the information we are looking for. It is true. I do it, you do it, everybody does it. Wikipedia, Google, Forums and of course specific …

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Forrest roads

In forests we usually find unpaved roads like this: Now we should observe how they are constructed. Usually the need to somehow allow access to areas in the forest. It does not have to be the shortest connection, it does not have to be as flat as possible, it is not required to build for …

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ä ö … in HTML

In the old days of the web, more than 20 years ago, we found a possibility to write German Umlaut letters and a lot of other letters and symbols using pure ASCII. These are called „entities„, btw. Many people, including myself, started writing web pages using these transcriptions, in the assumption that they were required. …

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Observer Effect

Scientists have to deal with the observer effect, which means that observing something actually changes it. Typically we think of quantum physics, where this effect is very strong and surprising and closely related to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but it is actually something that in a more abstract sense is present in a multitude of …

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Functional Programming: Article in another Blog

I wrote a Guest Blog Article about Functional Programming on Adesso’s Blog in German.

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Testing and Micro Components

It is an interesting trend to create micro components, microservices and use building blocks that are very easy to understand. As always, a new approach will not eliminate all problems. The problem that we are solving has an inherent complexity that we cannot beat. But usually we create a lot of complexity that would not …

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Comments

I like comments that really address the content that I have written, no matter if they agree or disagree with me. But I am getting a lot of spam these days and comments that advertise pharmaceutical products, credits, dating sites or other non-related issues are spam, when applied to this site, unless we discuss the …

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