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We have been using the term „certificates“ for a long time for files that are used to encrypt or sign data or to prove identity. Now „certificates“ have become something that we use in our daily life to show that we are vaccinated or tested against Covid-19. Because they are provided as QR-codes and people …
Strava and Komoot can be used to plan bicycle trips and to record them. Both tools can be used for both purposes, but it seems that Strava is better for the recording and Komoot better for the planning. Btw. it works also for walking or running, for example. But I will stick with the bicycle …
„Pseudo Data Structure for Strava and Komoot“ weiterlesen
Postal addresses seem to be easy: – Name and/or Company – Street and/or PostBox – ZIP Code – Municipality – Country This is true in Germany or Switzerland and a few other countries. I would like to add, that in some large buildings it can be a good idea to add the apartment number, but …
I had some experience with mobile apps in Sweden. Since I know Swedish, I did not bother to find out, if they support other languages. But they were potentially important and useful, but implicitly required a domicile in Sweden. More concrete, the apps that I was interesting in using were „Dalatrafik“ and „Swish“. Swish is …
„How far to go with internationalization?“ weiterlesen
Just from the users perspective, some thoughts and experiences concerning usability… I have to pay my phone bill every month. It is one for phone, internet, and everything, but it needs to be payed. It is mostly used for the company, so it is paid by my company and I need a proper invoice and …
„Some thoughts about Usability“ weiterlesen
Bicycles have potentially very accurate speedometers. They measure distances to an accuracy of usually ten meters and they do this by counting the rotations of the front wheel. Now we can go into physics and see if the front wheel slips significantly, but I would not expect that to be relevant. What is a bit …
„Ketchup or Milestone“ 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
After an upgrade, my Thnderbird started to use a weird US-date format and forgot my setting for this. I did not find any setting either. But this seems to work fine: Create a shell script #!/bin/bash export LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8 export LC_DATE=sv_SE.utf8 exec /usr/bin/thunderbird and make sure that this gets called when thunderbird is started instead of …
„Tip: how to make Thunderbird use ISO Date Format“ weiterlesen
It is interesting, how difficult it can be to use a simple device such as an ATM („bankomat“ in most languages). Sometimes it is just annoying, sometimes it is really hard to get the machine working properly at all… So what are the typical use cases? I would say, 90% of the time the intention …
When comparing string, of course spaces count as well and they should count. To ignore them, we can normalize strings. Typical white space normalization includes the following (Perl regular expressions): /[ \t]+/ /g replace any sequence of tabs and spaces used to separate content by one space. /\r\n/\n/g replace carriage return + linefeed by linefeed …
„The magic trailing space“ weiterlesen