Every season we are attending to a hackathon. This spring we went to one of the biggest in Germany, so they say, the Open Codes Hackathon in Karlsruhe. As one out of ~50 Teams we could choose one competition-category out of three: * Art & Technology, powered by ZKM * IT Brings People Together, powered by CAS Software AG * … 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!
Xamarin: Tabbed Page Navigation
If you have a background in native mobile development and for some reason had to switch to Xamarin, you are probably familiar with that “oh yeah, it doesn’t work this way here” feeling. Having to find new solutions for problems you haven’t even considered to be problems before is what I would call business as usual in Xamarin. Call me … Read More
Getting Started with Telegrams AbilityBot
This getting started is for developers who want to create a telegram chatbot with Java. There are many articles on the internet explaining how to create a chatbot based on the so-called LongPollingBot. But development works much faster and easier with the AbilityBot, which will be our topic for today. In the course of the article we are going to … Read More
AI as a Service – a Field Report
In this blog post I describe my experiences with AI services from Microsoft and how we (team Billige Plätze) were able to create hackathon award winning prototypes in roughly 24 hours with them. The post is structured according to the hackathons we participated and used AI services in, as of now (11.06.2018) there are 2 hackathons where we used AI … Read More
Analyzing a Telegram Groupchat with Machine Learning using an unsupervised NLP approach
Hey, guys!. When it came to finding a topic for my first blog post, I first thought of another topic… but then I remembered my student research project and thought it was actually fun! The student research project was about NLP (Natural language Processing), maybe I’ll tell you more about it in another blog post. Almost as interesting as NLP … Read More
How to start and learn coding
Every day we learn something new, people say,… and yet; you may end up in a situation you feel it’d only go further in one direction. You know there is so much outside of the box, and somehow you managed to get stuck inside. At least you don’t know how to get out anymore. That’s what happened to me four … Read More