wtf! the star trek: picard trailer made me (37m) literally cry out of sheer nostalgia.

why am i not able to find a way to use multidimensional associative arrays in vba?

plus: why am i too dumb to see my own data structure and process data sheets in a complicated way instead of using prepared data with a simple string split?

the current power outage is an additional reminder why i will always decide for a notebook. no internet though, so that is the ending for my spare programming time :(

thanks to @olback i learned about localStorage today. excited me started to implement this. after half of the refactoring was done i had the brilliant idea to test it with the intended ie11 after everything was fine with firefox. only to find out localStorage is not supported for local sites.
fml

more often than not i receive devrant notifications only with wifi connection but not with mobile data despite a good connection. is this a setting i missed or just an odd behavior by my isp or something else?

1. finally something listens and does as i say
2. direct human interaction is not neccessary
3. creation out of nothing is still impressive

(how) is it possible to run a shell command from a websites javascript? i am aware of the well known security issue but have a use case where i can assume it less critical. currently using ie11 activex which is fine but not supported on other browsers and hell i want not to be dependent on ie! tried to find it myself of course but without success.
in detail i want to print several pdf files with one click based on a javascript array using plain vanilla js.
am i missing something or am i out of luck?

had a question from a friend of a friend regarding a website with search function but javascript only. did his homework. appealing.

i just released my first open source project with effort to make a comprehensible documentation for others to use as well as repetitive refactoring to not embarrass myself.
i am equally excited and knowing no one will care about that.

it is based on my effort to make my companies workflow more effective, knowing well this is just a temporary solution in advance to a professional developed system as opposed to having no system at all. so all of this work will fade into oblivion eventually.

i felt this has been too much work just to be forgotten someday so i cling to my naive hope someone might benefit from that and maybe i get one or three internet points.

in case someone is interested in a free quality management software for document control and access with no real state of art, you might find it interesting to visit my qualitymanagement repo

filled train. to the left business men with maximum size balls, to the right an elderly woman talking nonstop to a stranger. and no power outlet for my drained computer.

so this is the first time i am actively denied content because i am not easily traceable. what about no?

translates to:
dear readers, unfortunately there is a problem displaying our content. please open the article with another browser.

displayed using ddg-mobile browser

i just wanted to make a decent documentation and now the sun is rising.

i strongly recommend considering multi language support before starting a project. implementing it afterwards istn't that much fun as anticipated

my first project was a star trek themed text based rpg adventure. it was a hell of spaghetti of if queries and gotos in gw basic. later these kind of things got something like an ui.

my first experience was my father doing mandelbrot sets from a magazine and i was watching building them up green pixel for greenpixel on an 8086 pc. it was raining outside and i was sitting in an arm chair with a warm blanket. this cozy feeling remains until today and might explain my personal attachment for this topic.
fortunately his failed attempt to introduce me into programming doing a morsecode translator did not stop me for long.

it was all fun and games but suddenly i get a bit nervous since my software will be responsible for almost all aspects of our department from monday on 😱

well well well.
i seem to like javascript syntax more than php.
there, i said it.

it´s not a post about php being bad. in fact i did and do nice things with it. but in the last few months i learned a lot about javascript and now the time has come i get a grasp on opinions of php being inconsistent. and a growing feeling of love for objects. maybe i just have not reached the dark pits of strange js-comparisons like similar objects not being equal. but still...
no, php, i will not abandon you. but sometimes we have to talk about our feelings.

a nice feeling being complimented for the effort and frontend. but it is still a pity i am the only one appreciating my tidy, efficient and scalable backend too.

my colleague had to send 50 semi individualized emails and started to do one after another. i quickly wrote a script to prepare the emails to be set up with a few clicks. she was impressed and thankful before proceeding to finish the task by hand.

if it works with 6 common browsers it is definitely solely my fault if the site doesn't work with your niche product. thanks for the constructive input today of 'doesn't work' for this nine year old site containing photos of your grandchildren dad.

installing adobe acrobat 2017 messed up my system. time for a fresh new installation. hooray.

after some months i finally fiddled around with python again. trying to make an executable using 3.7 i finally decided to switch back to 3.6 since pyinstaller was said to be compatible. still nothing works. but instead default directories are messed up. damn.

yesterday i worked a bit on my sites, checked again today to find them slow af. checked for flaws and recursions, did not find any. google page speed insights were totally fine. then i tried with my mobile connection and it was really fast. wtf vodafone?!

(speedcheck for dsl was fine)

today i learned that adding to innerhtml using a loop is so much slower than adding to a variable and writing it once.

sometimes i wonder if i were happier as a professional programmer. and then i experience this which means my family would be living under a bridge in no time.

tomorrow i have a presentation of a webapp but last night i decided to change the ui. i am not done yet and this frontend is driving me nuts.

our kind is able to bend the law!
to all who have concerns about memes/article13 meet the dayly hero:
https://reddit.com/r/...

would be funny if it were not so sad.

(oc)

after two days of intense javascript i had a few difficult minutes to realize that concatenation in php doesn't work with +

taking hours for string/object conversion to handle cookie based favourites depending on number of clicks left me considering being dumb, finally seeing just 15 lines of code.

can anyone recommend a source how to implement the alexa apl into my endpoint response? the documentation is not that clear to me and i couldn't find a solution in some hours of searching.

after 20 years of programming i finally understand objects, classes and methods. what a waste i am!