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Pages on saoe: The Nifty Oddity https://www.saoe.net/page/ Recent content in Pages on saoe: The Nifty Oddity Hugo en-us © 2013-2024 Sascha Offe Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Search site https://www.saoe.net/search/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:53:31 +0100 https://www.saoe.net/search/ <form id="custom-search" name="custom-search" method="post" action="" onsubmit="customSearchResults(); return false;"> <p> <input id="custom-search-field" type="text" name="search" value="" title="Search String" placeholder="🔍︎ Enter search terms…"> </p> <p> <input type="radio" name="option" value="AND" checked="checked">use <em><b>and</b></em> combination<br> <input type="radio" name="option" value="OR">use <em><b>or</b></em> combination </p> </form> <div id="custom-search-results"></div> <script> let params = { json_src : '/index.json', minlength : 3, defaultsearch : 'AND', sort_date : 'DESC', autocomplete : 1, section_search : 0, badwords : 'und,oder,aber,wenn,also,der,die,das,den,dem,des,ein,eines,einer,and,or,but,the,a,an', json_wait : '<p><em>Please wait, the search is loading...</em></p>', json_ready : '', extern_icon : ' (external link)', err_badstring : '<p>The search term is too short!</p>', err_noresult : '<p>No search results found.</p>', err_norequest : '<p style="text-align: center; color: red;">The fulltext search is currently unavailable.</p> Programming Quotes https://www.saoe.net/page/programming-quotes/ Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:15:23 +0000 https://www.saoe.net/page/programming-quotes/ <blockquote> <p>Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.<br> <cite>— Edward V Berard</cite></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.<br> <cite>— Jim McCarthy</cite></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.<br> <cite>— Keith Bostic</cite></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!<br> <cite>— Vidiu Platon.</cite></p> Software Overview https://www.saoe.net/page/software-overview/ Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:36:48 +0000 https://www.saoe.net/page/software-overview/ <p>An (alphabetical) overview of my personal and published software (projects):</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://bitbucket.org/saoe/autologon" title="Autologon" target="_blank"><strong>Autologon</strong></a><br> A small utility program (written in C#/.NET) to modify the Windows Autologon settings in the registry with a GUI.</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://gitlab.com/saoe/hotkey/" target="_blank"><strong>Hotkey</strong></a> (<a href="https://bitbucket.org/saoe/hotkey/" target="_blank">Old repo</a>)<br> A small utility to scratch my own itch: Having global shortcut keys for often needed actions.<br> Written in C++, against the Win32-API; registers global hotkeys and uses an icon in the taskbar notification area (’tray’) as the user interface.</p> About https://www.saoe.net/page/about/ Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:01:10 +0000 https://www.saoe.net/page/about/ <div style="float:right;padding:0px;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_Zim" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.saoe.net/images/avatar/Invader-Zim-white-bg.png" title="Not really me..." alt="Not really me..."></a> <br/> <img src="https://www.saoe.net/images/NiftyOddity-240x48.png"> </div> <p>I’m a guy from Germany who goes by the name of Sascha Offe and has an interest in software programming, SciFi, music and other (geeky) topics.</p> <p>The main reasons for me to maintain this space are…</p> <ul> <li>to create my own, but also shareable, knowledge base; to have various notes for my own benefit in one place.</li> <li>to provide a central hub for my <a href="https://www.saoe.net/software/software">endeavors</a>.</li> <li>to train and improve my skills of writing (documentation) and other means of communication (in english).</li> <li>to function as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging" target="_blank">rubber ducking</a> device, which in turn can also help with the aspect of <em>“if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”</em>.</li> </ul> <h2 id="domain">Domain</h2> <p><strong>Name:</strong> Well, the name <em>saoe</em> is short, was available as a domain, has a nice (lowercase) look to it, and it has a personal connection: It’s the combination of the first and last letter of my given and family name.<br> The only downside: It’s not really meant for pronunciation, so I prefer to use it only in written form, or else will spell it out like an acronym.</p> Coding Style & Design Guide https://www.saoe.net/page/coding-style-and-design-guide/ Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.saoe.net/page/coding-style-and-design-guide/ <div style="float:right;"><img src="https://www.saoe.net/images/misc/kiss-s.png" title="Keep it simple, stupid (and short)" alt="Keep it simple, stupid (and short)"></div> <p>This page is a collection of guidelines, advices, notes, tips and recommendations that I found over the years, in books and on the internet; they are not hard and fast rules or laws set in stone!</p>