Blogspot - siderite.blogspot.com - Siderite's Blog
General Information:
Latest News:
Re-boot 25 Aug 2013 | 03:47 pm
I wrote a bunch of posts regarding my past employment, but said nothing about the new one. In fact, I was a bit superstitious, didn't want to jinx what was going to happen. Now it shall all be reveale...
ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes, by John Ciliberti 25 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
When I first opened the ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes, by John Ciliberti I was amazed. It seemed to transcend the reference book and go into a sort of interactive path thing. You know interactive books, where...
Bradley Manning gets 35 years in prison, Snowden is on the run, journalists get harassed and you are being under surveillance for reading this article 22 Aug 2013 | 04:11 pm
In a recent news article I've read that Bradley Manning has received a 35 years prison sentence. I can't even begin to understand how to feel about this. On one hand, he was a member of an organisatio...
LSD: My Problem Child, by Albert Hoffman 19 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
This is the second book about LSD that I read, after The Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space, by John C. Lilly and it is also the autobiography of a scientist, but unlike Lilly, who...
Double Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay 14 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
The sixth book in the Dexter series is not really better than the others. I would have thought that five rehearsals would have resulted in a slightly better book, but instead it seems as if Jeff Linds...
AngularJS, by Brad Green, Shyam Seshadri 11 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
I have been hearing about the AngularJS library for a few months now, people often praising it as the new paradigm of web development. It is basically a JavaScript MVC framework that makes heavy use o...
On borders 7 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
I was watching this spy movie where a general was talking about "turning" all kinds of nationalities to their cause. And it got me thinking: what is the real difference between them? Nationalities, I ...
Old Man's War, by John Scalzi 4 Aug 2013 | 02:51 am
Old Man's War is the first book in a space opera series that spans five books (at least at the moment). People recommend it highly and I do have to admit that it is well written, with an easy going st...
The creepy experience of installing Windows 8.1 (when you are paranoid about security) 2 Aug 2013 | 05:29 pm
I wanted to see how Windows 8 looked and felt, as I didn't really see or try it beyond looking from afar at those obnoxious icon things they called tiles. Also, as a prerequisite that I added myself, ...
ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish, by Jamie Kurtz 1 Aug 2013 | 02:28 am
ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API, by Jamie Kurtz, is the one of the new breed of technical books that read like a blog entry, albeit a very long one. The book is merely 100 pages long, but to the point, ...
