Month: September 2018
Yet another Connected Vehicle Cloud Platform
Getting Ideas… write a User Story When I thought about an idea for a project, part of the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing”, I had two related use-cases in mind. So I wrote down those high-level user-stories: As a user who owns a non-connected car, I want to access some information about my car on…
Autonomous War – Which dangers are associated with warfare without human intervention?
The term autonomous war has been a controversial topic for years. But what exactly does the term actually mean? Autonomous war means the use of autonomous lethal weapons (short: LAWs) and machines or vehicles, which are primarily used by the military for modern warfare. Autonomous weapon systems can decide independently about life and death on…
Building a Document Translator for a Multi-Language Blog
Motivation The idea for this project occurred to me while I was listening to my sister share her vision for her recently started blog: To create a platform where writers of different ethnicity can publish texts in their native languages and exchange their stories with people from all over the world. Conquering the language barrier…
Web server with user registration and guestbook with image upload
Overview The users access the website where they have the option to the view the guest book, register or log in. To register the user has to provide a username, an email address and a secure password (more than 8 characters, upper and lowercase characters, numbers and special characters). Then an email with a verification…
Blockchain Risks and Chances – An 2018 Overview on Public and Private Blockchain, Smart Contracts, DAOs and ICOs
A few years ago, talking about Blockchain was largely consistent with talking about the technology behind Bitcoin. In contrast, Blockchain nowadays comprises a whole technology branch, whereby the Blockchain itself can be implemented in lots of various ways. Not a year ago, on December 17, 2018, the peak of the Bitcoin hype was reached by…
How to build an Alexa Skill to get information about your timetable 2018 Version
Imagine a student who just got up. He knows exactly that he has lectures today, but he does not remember which one or even when it begins. So, he asks his Alexa device: “Alexa, which classes do I have today?’” His Alexa device is able to look into his timetable and answers: “You have five…
Parsing all Open Source Elm Code
This project was originally inspired by a talk Felipe Hoffa gave at the Github Universe conference last year. He talked about how we can analyse the code hosted on Github at a large scale to learn interesting things. I’m always excited about learning new programming languages, at the moment my favourite new langue is Elm,…