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How to replace yourself with a script

February 21st, 2010 • Comments Off on How to replace yourself with a script

Nice presentation by Hilary Mason. I like the concept of the Ignite presentations:

In talks that are exactly five minutes long, Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds.

Striking Lufthansa Pilots??

February 21st, 2010 • Comments Off on Striking Lufthansa Pilots??

Okay the Lufthansa pilots are going on strike starting tomorrow for 4 days. I’m flying Lufthansa…But that is no issue. I fly with Augsburg Airways which is part of the Lufthansa organization. Weird is that Lufthansa uses the Augsburg Airways brand to pay pilots less then they have to when they would work for Lufthansa. Now guess what: The Lufthansa pilots (salaries between 60.000 and 240000 Euro annually) are going on strike. Those pilots working for Augsburg Airways whom earn less are not going to strike…something is wrong here…

A pythonic note to myself

February 19th, 2010 • Comments Off on A pythonic note to myself

How to find the unique elements of two lists:

def unique(self, a, b):
        return [item for item in a if item not in b]

Announcing Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5

December 22nd, 2009 • Comments Off on Announcing Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5

Fresh off the press: http://gridengine.sunsource.net/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=38&dsMessageId=238992

How to write kick-ass Unittests

December 17th, 2009 • 1 Comment

It doesn’t mater which programming language you are using Java, Python, or something else. Writing cool kick-ass Unit-tests is a must. So here are some thoughts and Ideas:

Next to this I would encourage all developers to use Agile development methodologies like Scrum or similar. And also: please tweet and blog to give your users an insight of what is going on with your product/software.

Blog post is also available here