Today I had a problem with my upcoming Time & Bill mobile client: I want to throw an exception from an event handler. For example: My elements marked with the css class “x” will execute the stuff method. As mentioned in the comment, stuff is a method of my object and thus “this” is necessary. [...]
Apache OpenOffice.org 3.4 released
The Apache OpenOffice.org project announced it’s first release! This is a huge milestone for the project as it means all dependencies and code are either Apache Licensed or compatible to that license. This opens the office suite for commercial work. While you are often forced to release GPL-dependent code as GPL itself, you are free [...]
Dart vs Motörhead: The result and the slides
On tuesday (24.04.2012) I was guest of the Java User Group Saxony. I met nice people and was pretty impressed by the well done organization of this little event. Thanks to the JUG Saxony we could finally reveal the secret: who rocks more, Motörhead or the uprising Dart? You can check out the my slides [...]
Google Dart at the Entwickler Magazin Pt. 2
Part 2 of the small article series on Dart just appeared in the Entwickler Magazin. While Part 1 covered the basics, Part 2 is more into DOM manipulation. Enjoy!
Darts new Isolate API
When I found out that Google Dart supports Isolates (which is some kind of multithreading for Dart, if have not heard it yet) I was excited. Still Isolates are among my favorites. But the first version of the API was pretty complex. It reminded heavily on Java Threading and honestly it was pretty difficult to [...]
More Cordova/jQuery mobile pain: ajax and events
When updating the mobile client of Time & Bill I run into jQuery mobile trouble again. This time lost nearly 12 hours for problems nobody does need. And yes, Open Source or not – I have considered Appcelerator meanwhile. I already downloaded the SDK, but for now I try to fix my mobile client. What [...]
(Google) “Dart versus Motörhead” in Dresden
Recently I already explained: Dart rocks. Meanwhile the Dart band has seen several great releases – it is now time to see if Dart can compete with the big rockstars in the scene – like Motörhead! Motörhead is a great band too with much steam behind. But then there is Dart: heavy drumming and tight [...]
Reflections on the Zen Programmer blog post.
Boy, was I surprised that my blog post “The 10 Rules of a Zen Programmer” became so popular. The time it appeared a good bunch of people were attracted in no time. I thought “cool”, there are really a few people who like that. To be honest, I was always unsure about this post. Can [...]
(Google) Dart rocked the Java Usergroup Augsburg!
On 22.03.2012 I visited the Java Usergroup Augsburg to speak a little bit on the new language Dart. It was a great evening, with many interesting questions and a lot of fun. Thank you very much to the organizers of this event! I have uploaded the slides as PDF version and as HTML version. Below [...]
Dart arrived on Chromium: Welcome Dartium #dartlang
UPDATE: Dartium has landed. In todays Dart G+ hangout with the Google Dart team the Developers announced that Dartium is available (at least it will be available in a few hours – please stay tuned for changes on Dartlang.org. I will update this post once it has been officially released). What does it mean? It [...]

