Excited to speak at Seamless Europe 2024 in Munich on September 11th! 🎙️💡
I’m pleased to announce that I will be speaking at Seamless Europe 2024, taking place in Munich on September 11th. This conference is an important event for professionals in payments, fintech, retail, and e-commerce sectors. My presentation, “The Power of…
Run AI on Your Own Machine with Ollama: Secure, Offline and User-Friendly
“How can we make sure our data shared with AI is safe?” This question came up last week in the AI & Training Design Masterclass by Dr Philippa Hardman and Roy de Vries. I had briefly answered the question in the chat: —…
Image Gallery with NextJS
Around the holidays I created an image gallery with NextJS. It turned out I had to handle a lot of images (almost 1000!). I wanted to avoid any existing bloated image gallery with a lot of configuration options. A simple…
Takeaways from the TYPO3 Camp Mallorca 2015
Last weekend I took the opportunity to visit the TYPO3 Camp Mallorca 2015. Since I moved to Palma just two months ago, I didn’t hestitate to register for the event. It was packed with more than 100 TYPO3 enthusiasts. Beside…
How to bring your widgets from TYPO3 Flow to Neos
I have been developing a TYPO3 Flow application for some time now. The app uses widgets for displaying financial data, e.g. stock prices and currency rates. I was curious about how to move my existing package to Neos and of…
Entering THE fintech space in London, Level39
In March I had the chance to join a hackathon at Level39, Canary Wharf in London. My friend and I have been invited by Simon Redfern of the OpenBankProject. They already had participated in the FinTech Innovation Lab program there….
Logging with AOP in FLOW3
Logging in FLOW3 can be easily done by following the Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) principle. You do not want to code the actual calls to your logging service into each of your functions which you want to log. In this…
Caching with AOP in FLOW3
When it comes to performance optimizing, caching is quite an effective way to boost the speed of your site. In this example we want to cache tweets from Twitter. We do not want to fetch data from Twitter every time…
1st Swiss New Finance Conference
I had the opportunity to attend the 1st Swiss New Finance Conference at the UniS in Bern, Switzerland. It is amazing to see the spirit in the start-up scene around New Finance, Next Finance or Finance 2.0. Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer…
Simple Object Inheritance in FLOW3
Think about two objects. One of them we want to call Income and the other one Spending. Both of them share the very same properties: They have an amount They are based on a currency Probably they also have a…