One thing I like at my current employer Check24 is the variety in topics and the trust in me to master them. This motivates me to take my work very serious, but also gives me a lot of responsibility since our products represent Germany’s biggest platform for comparing almost everything. But Check24 is not only … read more …
The beginning of this week was a little bit more action packed than planned. After a couple of weeks of coding and intensive testing (seriously!), @rauchbar and me were of the opinion that the feature is production ready and could be deployed. But well, shit happens when you least expect it. PHP Stacktrace As developers, … read more …
Algorithms fascinate me again and again. They seem to be very hard to understand, but once you have practiced enough, you will recognize common patterns. Once you reach the state where you see a problem and can imagine a solution, it seems like that you just adjust the previous algorithm used. Saying this, I am … read more …
One of my partners asked me for support on his personal website. He is not a pro user, meaning that he created a simple website a couple of years ago and relies on support of his hoster. Stuff like responsive design and SEO (what is this?) does not matter and he just wants to publish … read more …
The last few days, I was busy getting started with Vagrant. Vagrant is a nice tool to create a development environment to ‘just start’ developing. New team members, for instance, do not need to set up, but can simply run ‘vagrant up’ to have a fully configured, ready-to-start environment. Personally, in my case, it is … read more …
The new years first blog is about algorithms – more precisely: 2 dimensional matrices. I want to explore the ways how to find connected 1’s (so called islands) in a 2D array. This problem is also known as the “find the number of islands” or “connected components in an undirected graph“. Disclaimer: I generally use … read more …
Since I have been asked a few times for a “how to” for my “Role Based Access Control” library, I want to summarize this in a little blog post. Maybe the last one for 2018 🙂 Simple-RBAC ist designed to be lightweight. The main purpose is to grant or deny permissions to users using RBAC. … read more …
Do you know the situation where you want to test a little change of a pre-tested code “on the fly” and recognize that it does not work any more? I had this situation several times. Therefore, I decided to create a “flood style” blog post where I want to summarize those moments. This “flood type” … read more …
Today the 10th WebSummit started in Portugal’s capital Lisbon. More than 70,000 people, including 1,200 referents, 2,000 startups, 1,400 investors and 2,500 journalists from about 170 countries are join the mega event for the next 4 days. Earlier this year, I decided to visit this conference as I was really interested in it. The size … read more …
It has been a while since I released the initial version of RecommendationAssistant, my Master’s Thesis in coorperatin with Nextcloud GmbH and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. Today, I am happy to announce version 1.0.0. What has been changed? Most of the work is on how recommendations are being calculated. Earlier this year, I dropped … read more …