Programming and Computer Science

Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...

This year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...

As we all know, hindsight is 20/20. This universally applicable wisdom can also be used to describe informatics, especially debugging (i.e. testing...

Even a computer scientist/genius/geek/nerd (delete as appropriate!) has to take a vacation every now and then. He/she leaves the familiar lab, offi...

Das Keyboard 6 Professional is the new generation of the successful and high-quality mechanical keyboards from Das Keyboard. With its stylish and ...

Sometimes a simple card game is the best pastime. You know, those times when you're forced to de-digitise, or because of those slow university or w...

As we all know, silent waters run deep. While software development does not exactly have anything to do with water, the basic principle of the sayi...

Have you ever thought about the proper way to drink coffee? Sure, you might think: "Pour coffee into the mug, lift the mug, drink, repeat as necess...

If one were to believe the genre legends Run DMC, hip-hop really does have one thing in common with informatics: It's tricky! While the trio of Run...

The (almost exclusively jokingly used) eighth layer of the OSI model for network protocols is a nice way of saying that the problem lies with the p...

As we all know, still waters run deep. While software development does not exactly have anything to do with water, still the basic principle of the...

Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...

Basically, programming has a lot in common with Lego: on the one hand, it's worth starting at a young age (keyword: practice makes perfect), and on...

Basically, programming has a lot in common with Lego: on the one hand, it's worth starting at a young age (keyword: practice makes perfect), and on...

Turns out that most nerds do actually care about nature and know a lot about the evil “outside world”. So much so that even parts of the Unix archi...

There are a few unwritten rules everybody in IT should always follow. And trust us, if you decide to ignore these rules, you definitely won't want ...

Imagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...

We all know it: e-mails with incorrect encoding, in which the German special characters are once again displayed incorrectly. We can only be glad t...