In 1998, I have presented “Meier’s billboard”, A virtual display panel with changing images. Technically it is a Java-applet. Unfortunately, the reputation of Java-applets in the browser was bad and there was not much interest in my Java-applets. In the meantime, the networks became more powerful, the computers became faster, and thanks to CSS, we …
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(Deutsch) Google Technology User Group Hamburg
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Multilingual Websites with Ruby on Rails (2)
Part 2 – Variables, Validations, Model Classes Web pages often contains sentences in which a single word is changing. For example, “You are logged in as xxxx.” For the translation, we can obviously assemble the sentence from the components. There is often a problem, because the order of the words is different in different languages …
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SQL: Set a Field from a linked Table
A little hack for the Joomla Community Builder Recently, I received a job request. An existing web application will be greatly expanded, and therfore converted to use the CMS “Joomla”. For the management of members the extension “Community Builder” will be used. Previously, users had a number as login name. This number should now be …
Multilingual Websites with Ruby on Rails
Part 1 – Overview Writing software for several languages is an ever recurrent challenge. Ruby on Rails provides solutions to most of the standard problems in web development. But it needed time until the version 2.2. for the “Internationalization API ” to become an official part of Ruby on Rails. .
Jad Check on the servers from Google
The Jad check is a quality assurance tool for providers of mobile Java software. The check examines the so-called Jad file on frequently occurring errors. Some errors are otherwise very hard to find, so you save time during troubleshooting. Other errors leads to installation problems on only a few phones. According to Murphy Law, typically …
(Deutsch) Turing Award für Barbara Liskov
Webdesign and Mobiledesign in China
Stellt einen Bericht von Nokia über Design in China vor.
Compare Strings with PHP
In my programming work I often switch between different programming languages. It’s not so difficult, but problems sometimes appear just at very simple things. Strings in PHP are really easy to compare, there is the “==” operator. But there lurks a trap: