Visualizing my trips from Google Maps with Kepler.gl

In this blog post I will post a visualization of my trips between 2015 and 2018 mainly in germany. Further it contains the Java code that I used to convert the proprietary JSON format used by the google maps timeline for locations logs into a csv file.
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PostGIS 2.3 parallel performance 2 times faster on PostgreSQL 9.6 on a real live example

This blog post will show an example for the parallel query processing capabilities from PostGIS 2.3 running on PostgeSQL 9.6. It is based on the project Lebensriskoexplorer. The data that I am using are exported from my google location history from 2015. The region data is taken from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie. So overall Read more about PostGIS 2.3 parallel performance 2 times faster on PostgreSQL 9.6 on a real live example[…]

Pragmatic OpenUI5 (a.k.a. SAPUI5) vs Polymer comparison

This blog post will contain a comparison between the SAP framework OpenUI5 and the Google Framework Polymer. On my current work project I am mainly using OpenUI5. I was the guy to decided to use it around 2 years ago and I am still very happy with that decision. Nevertheless I try to keep up to date Read more about Pragmatic OpenUI5 (a.k.a. SAPUI5) vs Polymer comparison[…]

10 Reasons why Java is better than JavaScript

In this blog post I will explain some features of Java that in my opinion make it better than JavaScript. Later I will also write a blog post “10 Reasons why JavaScript is better than Java” 1. The Java VM is more advanced than the JavaScript VM The first thing is, that there are mulitple Read more about 10 Reasons why Java is better than JavaScript[…]