Why Pascal (Lazarus) is Still a G...

02. June 2025 In the world of software development, there are numerous programming languages that are constantly updated and improved to keep pace with rapid technological advancements. One language that has oft...

How to use an array in Cobol

22. May 2025 In COBOL, the OCCURS clause can be used to define a table (array). In the example, a table WS-NUM-TABLE with 10 elements is created. Each element (NUM-ITEM) is of type PIC 9(4) and can store a numb...

Matrix Bot with Ollama image reco...

17. April 2025 In the current avbot version 0.5.0, I have added the possibility, Ollama to describe an image. If you use Element via smartphone, photos of Ollama can be analyzed directly. I tried this with a cher...

Automation

Since many years, I’m developing and support microservice environments at customer sites as well as in own environments. The provisioning of servers and services must be done within a few minutes t...

DevOps

DevOps describes an approach to improving processes in the areas of software development and system administration. It is an artificial word made up of the terms Development and IT Operations. It i...

Mainframe

A mainframe is a complex and extensive computer system that far exceeds the capacities of typical server systems. Typical applications include highly reliable processing of mass data (e.g., insura...

Microservices, Apache Mesos

The idea behind microservices largely corresponds to the Unix philosophy (“Do One Thing and Do It Well”). translated: “Do one thing and do it well”). For many years I have been developing for our c...

OS/2, ArcaOS & DOS

Many older control computers in the industry run on DOS or OS/2. Both the hardware and the operating system are stable and require little maintenance. little maintenance. The failures are kept with...

Software Architecture and Development

For many years I do not only support linux server systems but also develop software for them. I’m specialized in the development of: API Client/Server Systems Server Backend Distributed S...