It’s now over 20 years since I first read “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card. I remember that I was searching the science fiction shelf in my local library for something new to read when the german translation of “Ender’s Game” caught my eye. It was one of those books you start reading and only [...]
When I started experimenting with Dart some time ago, I looked around for some pointers on unit testing with Dart and found a post on a blog titled “Test Driven Dart Development” and a Google Docs page. Both describe a unit testing framework that is not part of Dart’s standard library but can be downloaded from [...]
Some time ago as I was looking into JavaScript frameworks for the development of mobile web applications I stumbled upon Google Closure. Compared to jQuery and jQuery mobile Google Closure is a somewhat underhyped toolset for the development of client-side web applications. Several features of Closure made me take some time to dive into it: [...]
My subscription for The Mongoliad ended a few days ago and I did not renew it. My initial enthusiasm for it melted away after half a year. I haven’t read a single chapter since June or maybe even May. Serial novels don’t seem to work for me. I prefer to read a book at my own pace. [...]