Blog Archive

2022

• A small review of - C# 10 in a Nutshell
• Code-based UML diagramming - A quick and easy way to creating your diagrams
• A Project - Automation of a Virtual Production Plant
• A small review of - Software Architecture Patterns

2021

• A small review of - Catching the Process Fieldbus: An Introduction to Profibus and Profinet
• Completion of course - KUKA (KRC4) industrial robot operator and programmer training - advanced programming level
• A quick overview of - The Arcadia model-based systems engineering method
• A small review of - Model Based System and Architecture Engineering with Arcadia
• A small review of - Taschenbuch der Automatisierung
• A small review of - Grafcet Step-by-Step
• A small review of - UML 2.5: Das umfassende Handbuch
• A small review of - Speicherprogrammierbare Steuerungen für die Fabrik- und Prozessautomation

2020

• Completion of online course - 'The Complete Traefik Training Course'
• A small review of - Industrial Robots and Cobots
• Competion of online course - 'Javascript: Understanding the weird parts'
• Completion of online course - 'Docker for Node.js Projects from a Docker Captain'
• github - Tinycards Data Converter now available
• A quick overview of - Docker
• Completion of online course - 'Docker Mastery: with Kubernetes + Swarm from a Docker Captain'
• Completion of online course - 'Introduction to Node-RED'
• Completion of online course - 'Siemens TIA Portal Step 7 WinCC'
• Completion of online course - 'CompTIA Network+'
• Completion of online course - 'Industrial Communication by Siemens S7-1200 PLC'
• A quick guide - Setting up your home network for home office usage to minimize exposure of private data flow and network layout to company tech
• Lesson of the day - Creating a C++ abstract class without a custom pure virtual function

2019

• Status update - German translations finished
• Some thoughts on writing an application
• Lesson of the day - Running multiple QtTest classes within a single project the easy way
• A small status update
• Getting over 2000 cards with Duolingo's Tinycards!
• Lesson of the day - Setting up a project in Qt Creator with unit testing - The proper way
• Lesson of the day - Use lambdas to help function overload resolution
• Cheat Sheet - Qt display hierarchy
• 3 years - 9000 km
• Lesson of the day - Using ref-qualifiers to determine the r/lvalueness of an object a function is called from
• Lesson of the day - Reusing parameterized test classes in Google Test
• Lesson of the day - Setting up a project in Qt Creator with unit testing - The easy way
• A small review of - Learning OpenCV 3
• A small review of - Computer Vision with OpenCV and Qt5
• Lesson of the day - Converting between styles to access ui elements in Qt
• Lesson of the day - Generate OpenCV offline documentation for Qt Creator
• A small review of - C++ Concurrency in Action
• A quick overview of - C++ concurrency - Part 2
• Completion of online course - 'Process Visualisation with HMI / SCADA'
• A quick overview of - C++ concurrency - Part 1
• An analysis - Active Queue Management (AQM or SQM) with OpenWRT
• Lesson of the day - Little design, ton of work
• Completion of online course - 'Practical PLC Programming'
• Lesson of the day - Classes, Callback functions and friends
• Completion of online course - 'PLC Programming from Scratch'
• Lesson of the day - Compiling and related topics
• A quick guide - Fixing mouse double-click problem
• Lesson of the day - A better understanding of cv::namedWindow usage and its memory management
• Lesson of the day - Making your optimization efforts in a switch statement work

2018

• A small status update: digging a bit more into Qt and OpenCV
• Salvaging a bike lamp with the help of 3D printing -- UPDATED
• A small review of - Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development
• Getting over 1000 cards with Duolingo's Tinycards!
• Cheat Sheet - UML class diagrams
• Lesson of the day - Getting to know the diamond problem
• A small review of - Design Patterns Explained Simply
• Translating Head First Design Patterns Java code to C++
• A small review of - Head First Design Patterns
• Lesson of the day - Output operator overloading and class inheritance
• Lesson of the day - Using std::make_unique and std::make_shared with private constructors
• A small review of - A Tour of C++ (2ed)
• Lesson of the day - The order of deriving classes does matter
• Lesson of the day - Remember the destructor
• Lesson of the day - Examining the usage of C++17's structured binding
• My first experience with Qt (and a comparison of qmake and CMake project files)
• Lesson of the day - Enabling auto resize for your Qt widgets with a layout
• Another year, another website overhaul
• Lesson of the day - Start organizing your classes visually as you write them
• Lesson of the day - Using 'static' and 'auto' together in a class
• Lesson of the day - Don't overthink function parameters
• Lesson of the day - Don't overuse smart pointers, don't underuse * and &
• 2 years - 6000 km
• Finding a more suitable OS for my old Raspberry Pi
• An analysis - Thinkpad power consumption evolution over 4 generations
• A quick guide - Fixing Sony MiniDisc deck 'won't eject disc' issue
• A small review of - Grokking Algorithms
• Completion of online course - 'Embedded Systems Programming on ARM Cortex-M3/M4 Processor'
• A small review of - Soft Skills
• A small review of - Effective Modern C++
• A small review of - Learn C the Hard Way
• A tic-tac-toe game written purely in bash
• Spectre and Meltdown, patches, and CPU microcode updates for Sandy Bridge and Kaby Lake PCs
• A small review of - The Art of Unit Testing

2017

• A milestone - KDevelop template downloaded well over 1000 times
• A small review of - Clean Code
• Completion of German skill tree on Duolingo!
• Completion of online course - 'Mastering RTOS: Hands on with FreeRTOS, Arduino and STM32Fx'
• Completion of online course - 'Ultimate Microsoft Access 2013 Training Bundle'
• A small review of - Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++
• A gallery of the feature images of my (as of Aug. 2018: previous) site
• Migrating my website to Jekyll
• Update list for Windows Updates Downloader
• 1 year - 3000 km
• Getting an old Pi and what to do with it
• Es lohnt sich eine Sprache zu lernen! - Learning a language is worth it!
• A quick guide - Cleaning your bike chain in less than a minute
• A quick guide - Fixing your vintage stereo amplifier
• Your hardware is too new! - Or how Microsoft tries to trick you into upgrading to Windows 10 again
• A quick guide - Replacing a broken LCD in a Nokia 1208
• Finnish lyrics translation - Tulimyrsky (Moonsorrow)
• A quick guide - Secure erasing your (dead) HDD
• C++ coding right on track! (code+github account now available)

2016

• Punk-O-Matic is the real fun-o-matic!
• A CAD rendition - of a meat grinder made in the USSR, 1984
• A CAD rendition - of an external HDD storage
• Finnish lyrics translation - Jotunheim (Moonsorrow)
• My first programming experience with C++
• Finnish lyrics translation - Kaiku (Moonsorrow)
• A quick guide - The 'helicomputer' issue, or how not to listen to your cooling fan all the time – a general guide to re-greasing
• A small review of - Bike frame protection with „liquid rubber” spray
• How old is human music? – A bit more scientific approach
• Language learning and the things it teaches – Perception (or why native speakers don’t see the obvious...)
• A gallery of some of my better photos