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Andreas Fester
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  • Started software development in 1987 on a C128 using Basic, 6510 Assembler, Turbo Pascal 3.0
  • Moved to the PC in 1989, doing software development in C, x86 Assembler, still some Basic (don't ask...)
  • Later discovered object oriented programming, starting with C++ and later Java
  • Switched from MS-DOS and MS-Windows to Linux in 1994
  • Did some Microcontroller related projects based on the 8051, and later based on Microchip's PIC family
  • Worked as Software Architect at Oracle
  • Currently working as Senior Software Engineer at CONTACT Software

A code repository with SSCCEs from some of my SO postings is available at https://github.com/afester/StackOverflow.

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write a shell script to ssh to a remote machine and execute commands
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How to create a new java.io.File in memory?
Jul 11, 2013
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error: base operand of ‘->’ has non-pointer type ‘JNIEnv’
Apr 2, 2013
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My char pointer points to invalid value after being cast from int*
Jul 2, 2013
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cx_Oracle doesn't connect when using SID instead of service name on connection string
Sep 22, 2014
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Replace a text with a variable
Apr 30, 2013
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Printf variable number of decimals in float
May 7, 2013
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Dynamically get the current line number
Jul 4, 2013
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Runtime.exec().waitFor() doesn't wait until process is done
Mar 4, 2013
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How to get Method Parameter names in Java 8 using reflection?
Jan 30, 2014
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