A brief moment of silence at our GC Wizard Team Meeting – and Henrike’s eyes flashed. With a light laugh, she asked the group why we Germans would grill rabbits when caching? Astonished faces – and Henrike broke the tension. When she read the word “Hasengrill” for the first time in a hint, she had…
The Curvy Thing
Display the shortest distance between two points on the map: Why is a curve the shortest route? Why not just draw a straight line? The answer is this: The earth is not a flat map, but a complicated body that can be described to the best approximation as a flattened sphere, a so-called rotational ellipsoid…
Checkdigits – Are you still checking?
Once upon a time … Holy Sepamaria … GC7DCXZ … what have I calculated … There must be a better way. The banks can do it too. And once again an adventurous journey to a new function began. The goal was clear: the function should calculate check digits, check numbers for correctness and calculate missing…
Problems with Apple’s World
We have just released the new bugfix version 3.0.3. Actually, it’s nothing spectacular: we find a bug or get one reported, we search and find a solution. Anger, developing ambition, childish joy. The normal emotional life of a software developer. The world could actually be so beautifully simple: develop, create a new version, press a…
Release Version 3.0!
Wow, I have to say first of all: I am really glad that this milestone has (almost) reached its end. It’s not visible to the outside world, we’ve always tried to touch on the issue through (admittedly relatively infrequent) reports, but the truth is: It was an incredible mammoth task that was initially completely underestimated…
The Road To Version 3: Upgrade Of The Programming Language
We are now basically done with the restructuring and we are very happy with the result. I actually can’t stop scrolling back and forth in the new file structure, because I love so much 🙂 Unfortunately, this was only the first step before a much bigger one. The “New” Language The programming language used for…
The Road To Version 3: Web API
So far, the web version has been treated rather neglectfully by us. Some features don’t work, some look a bit strange. For some features, it’s absolutely unclear to us why they don’t work, and partly due to lack of time, but often also due to lack of technical competence, these things are simply ignored. If…
The Road To Version 3: Software Architecture
The last version is a version 2.x. Apart from possible urgently needed bugfix releases – let’s hope that won’t be necessary – there won’t be another version 2. A version change in the so-called major version usually only occurs when there is a very fundamental change to the software product. With the version change from…
Release Version 2.3.0
It has now really taken a long time again. There are many reasons for this. Primarily, our team was directly affected by the health and world political crises of our time. Then, of course, it was summer and thus not the right time to sit in front of a computer and program tools that are…
Where to go with Wherigo …
Yes – who does not know that. You’ve found a great Wherigo and now you’re standing in the forest and don’t know what to do. The coordinates jump in and out of the zone, some obstacle blocks the way – or even worse: shortly before the final the cartridge gets stuck. In any case it…
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