Library for unit based mathematics
In my last project I faced a few tasks of page layouting in a dynamic manner. I had to code rules to position and scale elements on documents with the complication of all data being of dynamic nature. So forget using a clean sheet of paper, a pencil, a ruler and a pocket calculator. Instead a basic layout has to be filled at runtime with data from various sources, text, logos, plans, tables. Sure, not such a complex thing from a mathematical point of view: geometry defines all required tools, all computation rules to find out where to position the top left corner of a logo file which has to be scaled by what factor to fit inside a predefined area whilst still leaving some space defined elsewhere. All fine, so let’s go… However everyone who has coded such a layouting routine will agree that this quickly leads to endless monotonous computations in the code, an flowing list of numbers getting converted, added, subtracted, factored. When you want to find out afterwards why that code scales a logo slightly wider than expected things get annoying. Because all you see is endless computations, but no layouting.
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Im App-Store des owncloud-Projekts wurde ein „Mobile compatible theme“ veröffentlicht. Ziel ist es, die owncloud Oberfläche besser an mobile Endgeräte anzupassen, dort also besser nutzbar zu machen. Diese Geräte haben ja einen kleinen Bildschirm, geringere Auflösung und werden per Touchscreen bedient, was in Relation gesehen ungenauer ist als eine Maus.
Ich habe mich über einen Hinweis in der Beschreibung gefreut:
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Whilst browsing through the web looking for hints on how to work around some annoying issue with a programming task I did not make any progress over the last hour I also came over to the famous Stackoverflow board. That is a high quality tech exchange site where IT professionals (and those trying to) help each other on a give and take base. Actually I quite like that board, it wisely uses „gamification“ to motivate users to contribute good answers.
I spent the last days at a StartupWeekend !
A truly interesting and inspiring event, though pretty challenging too… 54 hours to shape and prepare a startup business means little sleep, huge amounts of caffeine and a big black hole in ones normal social life during that period. But this also rewards with a great experience, amazing team spirit, a bundle of new things discovered, great people met. So for me it all boils down to: awesome!
