Niklas Saers

In defense of Dart

Posted on: 10-18-2011

Ok, everyone, let's all calm down. There's been so many blog posts and podcast debates all over the net about what's wrong with Dart. The only problem with Dart, the way I see it, is that Google is too good at marketing: too much hype before we got to see the product.

The way I see Dart, it's another language for doing client-side web application programming. Luckily, it's not another Flash or Silverlight with its plethora of languages. It would like to be a part of the browser, but for now it contends itself to being a language that compiles down to JavaScript. That puts it together with CoffeeScript and Objective-J, to name but a few.

5DmkII vs 4S

Posted on: 10-17-2011

Yes, the 4S is a great video camera. The 5D still has the edge, but also the bulk. This device is going to be great.

iPhone 4S / Canon 5d MKII Side by Side Comparison from Robino Films on Vimeo.

JENKINS-11370 & JENKINS-11372

Posted on: 10-17-2011

I'm working with Xcode & Jenkins, and as part of that I've filed https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-11370 for pre-scm-buildstep

The clang-scanbuild-plugin fails on install, so for that I've added https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-11372

The buying a computer experience

Posted on: 10-16-2011

My inlaws' computer hard drive died the other day, so I offered to help them buy a new Windows computer at the local shop. The specs were easy: Windows, Core i5, 4GB RAM and ~500GB drive.

Going in, I expected lots of extra sell-ins. And there were. What I found to be a very funny options, was to have them de-install all the extra crap-ware that comes pre-installed on the system. That's funny! They get probably a few bucks from the software guys to have that pre-installed, and then they get a few bucks from the customer to de-install the software. That must be a great deal for them

Rest in Peace, Dennis Ritchie

Posted on: 10-13-2011

To quote Jan Eggum: "Kor e alle heltane" (where are all our heroes, for you non-norwegians). Dennis Ritchie passed away today. That is Richie as in &R in K&R C, or The Book. Without Dennis, I'd probably not known my good friend Dag-Erling. I'd probably be writing Pascal. I'd probably given up on computing after having led the DemOS project in assembler and Pascal. Dag-Erling ...