This weekend is going to be quite busy. So, we decided to only do a few simple things, but still very important things: make our website known to Google and Bing. Google Analytics Google Analytics allows us to analyze website traffic and user behavior. It is very simple to integrate: That’s it! Now we can… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 5)
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 4)
Today we would like to finish the web application (without SEO and advertisments), so that we have a product that actually works. The following needs to be fixed: SSL I’m hosting my website with hosttech.ch, they provide a typical plesk admin UI. Enabling proper SSL is actually quite straight forward: click on the free let’s… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 4)
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 3)
In this post we will focus on the website four our small family business. I decided to go with React as I recently learned more about it and I think it is a good opportunity to put the knowledge into practice. What we will need to do in order to get a website up and… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 3)
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 2)
The idea to provide coloring pictures on a website is quite simple. I think it is a great chance to play around with generative AI systems and teaching my kids some lessons about how to create a product from scratch. Please note that this project is purely about experimenting with generative AI and will not… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 2)
The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI
The title may be bold, but I’ve been using AI to create coloring pictures for my kids, and it’s simple yet powerful. So, we decided to start a small business. We’ll set up a website where people can download coloring pictures and generate some revenue through ads. It’s a great opportunity to teach the kids… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI
COBOL: Fix the file copy program (kind of)
I’m happy that I have learned some basic COBOL programming. I have no intention to become a professional COBOL developer, so I’ll keep it simple. In the last post I was trying to copy the contents from one file to another. It kind of worked, but not the way I inteded: the record delimiter didn’t… Continue reading COBOL: Fix the file copy program (kind of)
File I/O with COBOL
Welcome back to my blog! In the previous post, we covered how to set up the environment for COBOL. Now that we have everything up and running, it’s time to dive deeper into the world of programming and learn about an essential concept – file I/O. In this post, we will be focusing on how… Continue reading File I/O with COBOL
Learning COBOL
COBOL is an older programming language that was released in 1959 with a focus on readability and ease of use for non-technical individuals. It quickly gained widespread use in the business world, with millions of lines of code still in production today. Over 20 years ago, I learned PL/1, a high-level programming language commonly used… Continue reading Learning COBOL
Data Mesh
It is very difficult to not hear or read about data mesh these days. I have read plenty of articles, listened to dozens of podcasts and watched numerous Youtube videos. What I was looking for was some practical guidance on how to implement a data mesh in an organization. Technology, Cultural & Organizational Change First… Continue reading Data Mesh
Temperature and Humidity Tracker (or My first IoT Project connecting an ESP32 via WiFi to a Firebase RTB)
Project What I wanted to build was a little device that tracks the temperature and humidity and stores the sensor data in a database; and I wanted to build a simple UI to visualize the data. I am particularly curious to find out about the effects of venting or other activities in different rooms the… Continue reading Temperature and Humidity Tracker (or My first IoT Project connecting an ESP32 via WiFi to a Firebase RTB)