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In developing of a program for parsing elements of PDF files my task was to develop a feature of “dehyphenation” - a function that merges hyphenated words. The naive approach is to search for hyphens on very last place of each page line and match it with the first word in the next line containing text. This approach would not only exclude the case when the hyphen appears as a last char of a page, but also the case of column page layout, where the matching candidates can be above the text object.

In 2012 I was member of an university project, actually a student project, for the lecture 'Mobile Computing'. The idea was to to get a better accuracy with a "cluster" of android driven GPS smartphone instead of using a professional GPS receiver. Back in the days android was different than it is nowadays. One of hardest issue was to collect GPS data without having a real GPS transmitter. One way was to build the app, copying the app to a phone and then find out is the GPS module working or not, which was fun in some way but that it was a really stupid idea.

For an internally (no internet access) used webservice based on JSP pages all CSS and JS files had to be included locally. Solution: to achieve this JSTL can be used (<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>) which allows to refernce and load the locally included files, like for example: <link href="<c:url value="/resources/static/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>" rel="stylesheet">

For a project a web service packaged as a war file had to be run on a server as a windows service. To be able to do the easily a third party tool was used: https://nssm.cc/ In order to make this possible first the service has to be created: //CMD// nssm install SERVICE "PATH_TO_JAVE_EXE" "-jar service.war" //CMD// And then to let the service be run it is important to tell the service the directory the service has to run in, by: //CMD// nssm set "SERVICE" AppDirectory "PATH_OF_WAR_FILE" //CMD//

For a project we had to develop a spring boot webservice including the camunda rest engine to controll the process. When including and starting the camunda process by the autowired capablity we had the problem the just a empty process was launched, not using our deployed process definition. Solution: To tackle this problem we used spring boots EventLister annoation to know when the application had fully deployed the proce

We used dagger for dependency injection and had the problem when using @Singelton an a subcomponent. When we tried to compile, we always got an error. The main componeten also used the @Singelton.

We used an automatic Gui Testing tool for android apps. We had a emulator for an tablet running on an laptop and tried to test our app. The problem was that the runs were sometimes successful and sometimes not with the same code.

In an uni project we had a complex data structure with 2 circular references. We built an android app with a maven spring java backend using docker. The problem was that we could not load all the informations in an entity with cicular references. In this cases we always only got null if we tried to get the correct values from our backend.

On of the most common thing in nearly every language is how to increment and decrement in variables, mostly used for iteration (like for, while, do-while) and recursion, which is a special kind of iteration. PHP and Python are using different approaches for incrementing and decreminting. In PHP it is possible to use the common form of '$var++' to increment and '$var--' to decrement. Another common form is '$var+=1'. In Python the form of '++' doesn't work, but it is possible to '+=' to increment and '-=' to decrement.

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