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Development
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String/Localization handling for iOS and Android
How to handle text localization without going insane?
Every application has those embedded texts: You need to display an error message, have some basic text, etc. When you want to use the same strings for both your iOS and android applications you typically have to do some nice and frustrating copy/pasting.
At least I did.
No more:
Phoenix v0.11.0 published
Update: v0.14.0 is out:
There has been an update for the trending phoenix framework. Worth a look.
If you’re interested, I made a sample project for vagrant to play around with.
Digital Ocean Blocking IPv6 Mail Traffic && A Python Search and Replace One Liner
I got nearly insane yesterday, so let this be your warning: Digital Ocean is blocking IPv6 mail traffic…. on purpose.
To deactivate IPv6 in RHEL 7, go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, change IPV6INIT=yes to IPV6INIT=no and reboot. I have to admit, it would have been far better to leave IPv6 enabled and route mail traffic over IPv4. Anyway, I got distracted by list comprehensions and generator expressions, which resulted in this one-liner to deactivate IPv6 “automatically” (valid only for RHEL derivates and Python > 3.3):
Happy holidays and a prosperous new year
The source and instructions can be found at https://github.com/entwicklerbier/arduino-dance-and-sound
Floating point calculations or why 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3
No matter what common programming language you use, the term 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3 will evaluate to true. Go, try it out! Continue reading
Misconceptions of ownCloud Encryption
Our organisation aykit is developing ownCloud notes applications for mobile devices. aykit is a non-profit organisation and we invest our spare time to develop those applications. The last couple of weeks we spent some time trying to figure out what exactly ownCloud encryption is doing. As it turns out, there is a big misconception of the real purpose of the ownCloud encryption app.
The Quorum
I never thought Philip K. Dick will give us a good explanation of Quorum. Following is the original excerpt from “The Minority Report”: Continue reading
Join the language comparing fun
Making fool of programming languages is dumb, unprofessional and short sighted. So let’s join the fun, with this lovely quote by python afficionado Mark Lutz: Continue reading
Headless javascript tests with poltergeist and Ubuntu
If you already have a nodejs dependency, I recommend the following solution for headless testing instead of my first one. Continue reading