[eval : recruiting]

Since I went solo with my own company after staying an employee for more than 15 years, I thought I bring some light into the job offers that pop up. I took the last weeks and mainly LinkedIn requests into account. Let us examine the data and see where there is potential for improvement. Why…

[explicar : learning languages]

Did somebody tell you that you were not good at learning languages when you were younger? Maybe maths or crafts were more made for you - you should just focus on those? We might have something in common. I did not like learning a second language up to age 18. Just before that, I started…

[explain : legacy system]

In a recent project I had the chance to rebuild an older backend from zero. I was able to deliver on time and budget after 240 hours. Furthermore, all closed-source dependencies got removed and even functionality improvements were made. Let me explain and summarize what was done. what came before war in a Tomcat 8…

[run : 10.000k]

This is a short personal post about goals, running, and psychology. Or - like Mike Shinoda put it in a Fort Minor song (although, it would statistically evaluate to 200%, but lets not be picky) [1]:"This is 10 percent luck, 20 percent skill 15 percent concentrated power of will 5 percent pleasure, 50 percent pain…

[plan : smart book]

Since the Amazon Kindle, born roughly 15 years ago, and e-books in general, I have been waiting for the revolution that brings books finally into the digital age. After over 500 years of printed letters, one can set bookmarks and search through text, but that feels little compared to all the possibilities a digital medium…

[explain: Beta]

Beta? α? Why "Beta solutions"? Join me for a quick journey about computers, rocks and the desire to get better at what you do. Back to the 80s El Capitan - by Patrick Scales [4] With the first shoes for rock climbing getting manufactured and sold in the United States, new difficulty levels were being…

[b : software architect]

Was it not just enough to be a software developer? Where did the need for complexity come from? Are you an architect if you know about patterns, microservices, and dependency management?Here I want to address what it can mean and which topics I see as important in the awesome, ever-changing environment of software creation. What…

[Ψ : isolation]

Since recent developments gave most parts of the world a matter of united self-isolation I want to share a few thoughts as a psychologist. At first I'll explain why I am doing that now. Afterwards I will address the problems this situation might bring for ones mental health, followed by some suggestions what can be…

[eval : february]

In the last two weeks I did not invest that much time into programming but was vacationing in the Austrian Alps instead. Nice for me. Still, I am somewhat finished with an early historic view on metering data on a monthly level. Since I do not want to keep that to myself - especially due…

[smartics : routing]

This weekend I worked on showing historic data. To actually show anything but the current overview I had to get the menu in the application working first. For that I am using another library called react-router. I will quickly show how to include it in a react app that is already using bootstrap. First we…