For the development of applications, it can be very useful to provide an API via a local web server delivering predefined data. Especially for testing and rapid prototyping, it is highly recommended to use a mocked API instead of requesting a production system. Today I will show you how to create a local mock server…
The sight of the impressive rock face of Céüse in the French département of Hautes-Alpes makes every climber’s heart beat faster. The rock face is several kilometres long, rises up to 200m and offers an endless ampunt of outstanding routes. It is not for nothing that Céüse is one of the most famous climbing spots…
In all computationally intensive tasks, sooner or later, the topic of parallelisation comes into focus. Python offers a variety of ways to achieve this – all with strengths but also weaknesses. In the following, I want to present some approaches with a focus on one framework: joblib. It allows the parallelisation and reusability of intermediate…
Do you want to get quick insights from a large dataset? Just use Python – it has all the tools you need to load, transform and visualise complex data with just a few lines of code. This post will show you how you can quickly create a professional visualisation from your data using Pandas and…
After some training sessions the fitness comes back slowly, the long sommer days are fantastic and open borders in Europe make traveling possible again. Even though I was pleased to climb in our local home crags in the Black and Palatinate Forests, which have truly beautiful spots, I was looking forward to seeing some other…
Climbing is more than a sport – it’s about freedom, traveling, perfection, and the fulfillment of dreams. And so most of the climbers tend to spend every free minute with climbing, training and traveling. As the Covid-19 restrictions are quite hard, they now face the question of how to live their passion during this challenging…
After two months of hard-working, studying and training, we used the opportunity to take three weeks off and to escape the busy daily life in Karlsruhe. Actually, we were to busy to figure out a concrete plan so we just added two big points on our holiday-want-to-do-list: Luca wished to see the sea again and…
Rock climbing is one of the things I love the most and with the right clothing you can do it every season. The days when the temperatures are too low to climb outside are quite rare. But what to do when it is too cold outside for some rock climbing or bouldering? Then it is…
The landscape around the Ligurian Riviera is characterized by its wooded hills, steep cliffs, and the blue sea and attracts bikers, hikers and climbers from all the world every year. There are hundreds of crags around Finale Ligure and the area can look back to a long climbing history. In the last years, the areas…
Bürs in Vorarlberg (Austria) offers excellent endurance routes in steep conglomerate overhangs. As the conglomerate rock offers rich possibilities of holds, it most likely will be the lack of endurance that kicks you out in these endless long routes. As everyone praised this area to the skies, it has been a long time on the…