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Deutsch Since about 20 years we have been kept busy with the change to Unicode. The good thing: We all know that Unicode and usually UTF-8 as representation is the way we should express textual data. The web is mostly UTF-8 today. But it has been a painful path and it still is sometimes. Why …
„Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1: Why is it so difficult?“ weiterlesen
Aparently the UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source: Guardian UK government
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Deutsch A common approach in functional programming and even a good practice in object oriented programming is to prefer having objects immutable. Especially in applications with multithreading this is extremely helpful, but in principal it helps having the information flow under control and avoiding unexpected side effects. I do not want to postulate this as …
„Databases and Immutable Objects“ weiterlesen
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„Weihnachten — Christmas — Jul — Navidad 2013“ weiterlesen
Deutsch Most of us know from elementary school how to add multi-digit numbers on paper. Usage of the carry bit is the same concept, but not for base 10, not even for base 2, but for base 256 (in the old 8-bit-days), base 65536 (in the almost as old 16-bit-days), base 4294967296 (32 bit) or …
„Carry Bit: How does it work?“ weiterlesen
Deutsch I have visited the conference ScalaX 2013 in London on the beginning of December. It was really fun. The talks were quite challenging, maybe even a little bit more than on other conferences I have visited, but that was really fun to listen to. About 400 participants were there and three tracks were available. …
„Scala Exchange 2013“ weiterlesen
Deutsch Part 1 During the time from 2013-11-13 to 2013-11-15 I have been attending the Devoxx-conference in Antwerp in Belgium. Most of the speeches I have been listening too were just great, like for example: Java 8 and beyond keynote How To Do Kick-Ass Software Development How to organize teams so they can work efficiently? …
„Devoxx 2013 Part 2“ weiterlesen
Deutsch Part 2 2013 I am visiting Devoxx in Antwerp again. It is quite interesting, because they have invited good speakers who know their stuff and are fun to listen to. So I am learning a lot about software architecture, software development, team organization, security and new technologies. It is always good not to know …
„Devoxx 2013 part 1“ weiterlesen