Hey guys, during my studies I had to analyze the NoSQL database Cassandra as a possible replacement for a regular relational database.During my research I dove really deep into the architecture and the data model of Cassandra and I figured that someone may profit from my previous research, maybe for your own evaluation process of Cassandra or just personal curiosity. … Read More
Meet The CraftCodeCrew
This blog began in 2018, created by a group of students from DHBW (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg) in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the time, we were all employed at major German enterprises, spending half our time on-site and the other half in university.
Originally called Billige Plätze (Cheap Seats) due to our habit of sitting in the back row of the classroom, the blog was soon renamed to CraftCodeCrew. After graduating in 2018, we pursued different career paths, and in 2020, three of us came together to found CraftCoders.
Please note that the older posts were written in our early 20s by non-native English speakers. You may notice some youthful tone and minor language errors. We've chosen to keep these articles as they were originally written. We hope you enjoy reading them!
5 Things I love about WSL
I got a new PC and love it! But a new PC also means a whole new setup and a lot of work. One of the first things I’ve setup has been the Windows Subsystem for Linux. I know I am a developer and most of you would not expect me to work on a windows machine. Guys I must … Read More
Smartphone Sensors for Dummies
On my way exploring Augmented Reality under iOS, I have come across Core Motion Framework, which provides tools for working with motion- and environment-related data your device captures. There are numerous applications for this kind of information, especially if we are talking about location-based services or any apps which need to be sensitive to their environment. Since, as a mobile … Read More
Quickstart: Get ready for 3rd Spoken CALL Shared Task
These days is Interspeech conference 2018 where I’m invited as a speaker and as they write on their website… Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Coming Wednesday the results and systems of 2nd Spoken CALL Shared Task (ST2) are presented and discussed in a special session of the … Read More
5 Essential Things about Working with a Product Owner
When a team has issues at communication with their Product Owner you may have serious trouble coming towards you. Having problems dealing and talking with your Product Owner inherits a lot of risks for everyone, e.g. it can lead to a huge mountain of technical debt, repeating release postponement, and ultimately a lot of stress, discourage, a failing product or … Read More
Spring Cloud Netflix Sidecar Tutorial
Introduction Hey guys,this week’s post is about Microservices created with the various Spring Cloud frameworks and how to include services written in non-JVM programming languages into the Spring Cloud ecosystem using Spring Cloud Netflix Sidecar. Please be aware that this tutorial is specifically written for people who know the architectural style of Microservices and are creating applications using the various … Read More
Do it yourself filesystem with Dokan
What’s up guys?! A week has passed and its time for a new Blogpost. This time I am gonna give you a small introduction to Dokan. You don’t have a clue? Never heard of Dokan before? No problem… I haven’t either. But in the life as a student there comes the moment where one must write his Bachelor thesis. No … Read More
OpenCV & Tesseract: Android Computer Vision for Dummies
Introduction I got to know OpenCV as I investigated into computer vision solutions for a little startup called robodev GmbH (see here). There I developed possible ways for real-time object recognition and computation of angle and position of the recognized object. I fell in love with C++ and its possibilities to realize high-performance applications. Awhile I started digging further into … Read More
3 Ways To Do Augmented Reality Wrong
The please-don’t-sue-us disclaimer: This post is a personal interpretation of a scientific work applied to actual use cases, based on information available online. It is not an intention of the author, to belittle the technological achievements of any company mentioned below. Non-compliance with a definition of AR spread in the scientific community does not make any application less valuable to … Read More
Rasa Core & NLU: Conversational AI for dummies
AI is a sought-after topic, but most developers face two hurdles that prevent them from programming anything with it. It is a complex field in which a lot of experience is needed to achieve good results Although there are good network topologies and models for a problem, there is often a lack of training data (corpora) without which most neural … Read More
A quick Introduction to Jib
Hey guys, last week I stumbled upon an announcement on the Google Cloud Platform. They presented a new open-source tool which aims to ease the containerization of your Java project. Without even reading the whole announcement, I declared it the topic of my next blog post. Well, here it is 🙂 What is Jib? Jib is a containerizer for Java … Read More
My date with Dart and Flutter
Motivation …Hey, guys! It’s time for another blog post from me. This time I want to write about my experiences with Flutter and Dart. Every software developer is regularly confronted with new concepts, frameworks or languages, so am I. I learned to program with Android 2.0. Yes, I’m getting old… Meanwhile, I am not so active in the Android world … Read More