Today, we assessed the current engagement with our website, and it comes as no surprise that we don’t have a significant amount of traffic yet. We will need to employ more SEO techniques. However, one issue we noticed is the lack of an overview of image downloads. Currently, our website only provides a direct download… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 9)
Category: Programming
COBOL: Fix the file copy program (kind of)
I’m happy that I have learned some basic COBOL programming. I have no intention to become a professional COBOL developer, so I’ll keep it simple. In the last post I was trying to copy the contents from one file to another. It kind of worked, but not the way I inteded: the record delimiter didn’t… Continue reading COBOL: Fix the file copy program (kind of)
File I/O with COBOL
Welcome back to my blog! In the previous post, we covered how to set up the environment for COBOL. Now that we have everything up and running, it’s time to dive deeper into the world of programming and learn about an essential concept – file I/O. In this post, we will be focusing on how… Continue reading File I/O with COBOL
Learning COBOL
COBOL is an older programming language that was released in 1959 with a focus on readability and ease of use for non-technical individuals. It quickly gained widespread use in the business world, with millions of lines of code still in production today. Over 20 years ago, I learned PL/1, a high-level programming language commonly used… Continue reading Learning COBOL
Temperature and Humidity Tracker (or My first IoT Project connecting an ESP32 via WiFi to a Firebase RTB)
Project What I wanted to build was a little device that tracks the temperature and humidity and stores the sensor data in a database; and I wanted to build a simple UI to visualize the data. I am particularly curious to find out about the effects of venting or other activities in different rooms the… Continue reading Temperature and Humidity Tracker (or My first IoT Project connecting an ESP32 via WiFi to a Firebase RTB)
Typolino – Adding Features (one year later)
Coming back to a side project after a year can be pretty painful. I actually wanted to see how it goes with Typolino. Is the CI/CD pipeline still working? Can I easily upgrade my dependencies and add new features? A product should grow with your clients and Typolino is no different. My kids get older… Continue reading Typolino – Adding Features (one year later)
Getting Started with CVXPY to solve convex optimization problems
I don’t know much about convex optimization problems, but being a hands on person I like to have everything ready to experiment. My final goal is to run some scripts on Azure Databricks. So I’m still ony my journey to become Azure Solutions Architect. 😉 Installation First things first: to get started I had to… Continue reading Getting Started with CVXPY to solve convex optimization problems
Moving youcode.ch to Azure
Since a few years I have this idea of youcode.ch. I never invested a lot into this side project after buying some WordPress theme and paying for the domain. I like WordPress for simple websites, but I never got warm with it for more complex stuff. Anyhow the website stopped working and appearantly WordPress is… Continue reading Moving youcode.ch to Azure
How To Keep Up To Date
Recently I was asked what you should do as a software engineer to keep your skill up to date. Of course, there are many things you can do. But one of the simplest and most effective practices in my view is reading. There are three websites I visit and scan as part of my daily… Continue reading How To Keep Up To Date
Getting Started With Azure App Services (and learning how to edit videos for YouTube)
I was playing around with Azure App Services and Visual Studio Code recently and I think this is a great service to get something up and running quickly – basically diving into the code right away. Let’s see if we can do everything just from within Visual Studio Code! I never considered to become a… Continue reading Getting Started With Azure App Services (and learning how to edit videos for YouTube)