The third post of the Workation Diary series is about public working in Barcelona. This week, I tried several cafès and want to share my impressions. In January this year, I decided to move to Barcelona for work and vacation. In total I will stay for three month here, will work remotely and get more … read more …
The second blog of the Workation Diaries series is about Barcelona’s beatiful architecture and art. For the next three month, I will stay and work in Barcelona, work remotely as a freelancer and get as much insights of the city as possible. In the first post, I addressed my workation plans, the preparation and my … read more …
The day I make a dream come true finally becomes reality. My long planned work and vacation trip (short: workation) just began this week. As we all now, the Covid-19 pandemic brought home and remote work much faster into our life than expected. Especially for software engineers, who only needs their laptop for work, remote … read more …
I am in programming since around 2006 and started coding with Borland C++ (I can hear you saying “Bor -what”). Back that time, we created Desktop UI applications with object oriented C++ and together with the language, we learned best practices and common approaches (to object oriented programming). One major rule of thumb – among … read more …
Back in 2015, I started this blog for having a platform to share my thoughts about my profession and random things. Later, starting from 2018, I got in touch with algorithms, data structures and every thing around that what I call „deeper computer science“. During that time, I had job interviews with Facebook, Google and … read more …
Recently at SCAYLE, I wrote a Laravel service that inserts data using Eloquent into a table like this: For people not familiar with Laravel/Eloquent: The HelloWorld model mirrors the database structure and the save method persists data into the database table. So far, so good. Like for any good and responsible project, I wrote unit … read more …
Traits were introduced to PHP in version 5.4. While classes were introduced in version 4, class inheritance was – as in Java – limited to single inheritance only from the very beginning. Class Inheritance: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Class Inheritance is a central concept in object oriented programming and exists in every programming … read more …
For a current project, I need to read data from an API, transform and push it to an AWS S3 bucket. Normally I would consider to use a standard programming language for that because there is no “magic” involved. However, one of the requirements is to use Benthos, a tool for “Fancy stream processing made … read more …
Back in 2010, when I started studying computer science, the very first thing that I have asked myself was: who is responsible for protecting my data? This was a start of a new journey for me. On the one hand, I was learning a lot of new things, such as OOP, databases, distributed systems (today … read more …
In 2019 I wrote about a MySQL 5.7 migration at Check24. While it is very exciting when working on new features, it is also a good thing to think about the architecture and use modern frameworks and libraries. Working on the architecture provides also the opportunity to improve source code quality and introduce quick wins. … read more …