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...

This 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 ...

Das Keyboard 6 Professional is the new generation of the successful and high-quality mechanical keyboards from Das Keyboard. With its stylish and ...

Sometimes 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...

As we all know, hindsight is 20/20. This universally applicable wisdom can also be used to describe informatics, especially debugging (i.e. testing...

As 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...

The (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...

Even 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...

If 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...

Basically, 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...

As 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...

Have 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...

There 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 ...

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...

Basically, 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...

Turns 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...

This 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 ...

We 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...

To 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...

Comments 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 ;)

The word hacker in Japanese on a shirt. The characters are pronounced "hakka" (with a small pause between the k, i.e. "hak (pause) ka").

When 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...

At times, we reach the point where our brain just refuses to function properly and even the simplest tasks are impossible to complete. Most program...

"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 ...

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...

On 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...

Of 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...

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 ;)

Mechanical keyboards are usually a double-edged sword for Mac users, as they often only have the labelling for the PC. Not so The MacTigr keyboard,...

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....

Are 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...

To 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...

For the code monkeys among you ;-)

When it's done, it's done and everything will run the way you expect it to run. Well, in theory...In a couple of months, you might have to make som...

It's not enough for talented coders to write their own code, they try to analyze other programs and hardware too! For example, they'll wr...