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...
View full detailsThis 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 ...
View full detailsSometimes 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...
View full detailsDas Keyboard 6 Professional is the new generation of the successful and high-quality mechanical keyboards from Das Keyboard. With its stylish and ...
View full detailsAs we all know, hindsight is 20/20. This universally applicable wisdom can also be used to describe informatics, especially debugging (i.e. testing...
View full detailsAs 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...
View full detailsThe (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...
View full detailsEven 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...
View full detailsIf 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...
View full detailsBasically, 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...
View full detailsThere 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 ...
View full detailsTurns 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...
View full detailsAs 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...
View full detailsHave 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...
View full detailsBasically, 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...
View full detailsNobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...
View full detailsWe 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...
View full detailsTo understand recursion, you first have to understand recursion.
Programmers who use pointers should be careful because they aren't far away from hell ;) At least that's what the 2nd of the 10 commandme...
View full detailsThis 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 ...
View full detailsWhen programmers have worked too long on a project, or when you ask them how the code they worked on actually functions, their favorite answer will...
View full detailsAt times, we reach the point where our brain just refuses to function properly and even the simplest tasks are impossible to complete. Most program...
View full details"Too many cooks spoil the broth!" - a principle that not only applies in the kitchen but also the world of IT. When it comes to identifying former ...
View full detailsComments in the code are grossly overrated. Everything is already there! If you have a plan of the matter, you don't need any extra explanations ;)
All users of a unix-like operating systems (Linux, Mac, BSD, etc) should know what a fork bomb is. A fork bomb is a program which creates so many c...
View full detailsOf course, table-based layouts are evil and should be avoided. But when you test the CSS layout you've painstakingly created for Firefox with Inter...
View full detailsThe word hacker in Japanese on a shirt. The characters are pronounced "hakka" (with a small pause between the k, i.e. "hak (pause) ka").
Look again!Even on t-shirts, the number of bugs increases by the day. All getDigital t-shirts are of course way past the beta phase ;)
What's the trick behind all the software and where does it come from? That's what we asked ourselves and then we went on a investigation....
View full detailsOn January 19, 2038, exactly on 03:14:07 (GMT) the 32-bit Unix time variable will be completely filled!Unix-like systems store the time as the numb...
View full detailsWhen trying out a new programming language, the words Hello, world are likely to be the first two that are entered for a short test to check what...
View full detailsFor the code monkeys among you ;-)
As we all know, still waters run deep. Software development might not have anything to do with water, but the basic principle of the saying can be ...
View full detailsAre HEX-Numbers part of your everyday life? Then you should understand the subtle message of this t.shirt without problems. In any other case, just...
View full detailsTo be or not to be, that is the question.2b, or not 2b, that is the question./(bb|[^b]{2})/ We knew it: coders are poets. If only Shakespeare had b...
View full detailsLinux - The choice of the GNU generation