
How to get started with IOTA - Part 1
This is a short overview for beginners on the - in my opinion - best way to get some IOTA coins and play around with crypto currency.

Testing Android Applications - Part 1 - Introduction
An introduction to testing Android applications, talking about unit vs. UI - and 'local' vs instrumented test. Where to start? What is espresso? And what do ...

deploying angular-cli projects to now.sh
I assume you have a working now.sh account.

CORS and micro-services with now.sh
On March 7th 2017 the folks at zeit introduced a new way to compose and coordinate micro-services. In this post I will show you how you can use that to get r...

Emphasize Success and Progress in (Distributed) Agile Teams
Every time you solve a tricky problem, release new features or fix a nasty bug: this are moments of success and progress and such moments are valuable!

Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) Software for macOS
While working on my master thesis I have done several expert interviews and then came to the part where the gathered material has to be evaluated and interpr...

CoreData CRUD methods in Swift 2.0
With Swift 2.0, Apple introduced a protocol oriented way of programming. I want to use this to create a protocol that adds CRUD functionality to CoreData mod...

Modern Web-development Stack
Some time ago now i stumbled over some web development tools and frameworks when evaluating the current modern stuff. After building some small applications ...

maven multi modules setup
This is a very common use case and it took me some time to figure everything out. Consider we have a Maven project with 2 modules and both modules need to h...

AngularJs Directives
What are Directives?

Rdio vs Spotify
This is a pure opinion of mine and compares the two streaming services on my needs only. I will not compare all the features but just the differences i disc...

mongodb text search
nosql databases have their good and bad parts. In the case of mongodb a problem was definitely ‘in text searches’. You could use regex queries which are very...

Vagrant AWS
Two colleages brought my attention to a neat little tool called vagrant while i listened to their podcast. This basically lets us create small config files t...

Nodejs serial and parallel processing
Some time ago I ran into some requirements while working on a nodejs server. The server received json data which had to get processed (in this case saved to ...