Attribute or Property?
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Author Archives: Karsten Meier
Rails ActiveRecord: count, length or size?
The object oriented database layer “ActiveRecord” offeres three different methods to determine the number of objects: count(), length() und size(). Alle drei Methoden liefern das gleiche Ergebnis. Was nehmen wir wann? Warum ist es überhaupt wichtig? Nimmt man die falsche … Continue reading
LwUIT 1.5: upgrade experiences
Sorry, this article is only in german. As it is quite old, I don’t think I will tranlate it to english.
Ilias Skins
Custom adaptation of a web-based learning management system (Translation in progress) Ilias is a so-called learning management system (LMS), ie a system for web-based education programs. It is a very comprehensive system. It integrates not only the content in online … Continue reading
(Deutsch) Eins plus Zwei
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Multilingual Websites with Ruby on Rails (3)
Part 3 – Quality Assurence Texte gehören zu den Teilen einer Anwendung, die häufig geändert werden. Wenn dann noch externe Übersetzer im Spiel sind, kann es leicht zu fehlenden Übersetzungen kommen Wir möchten deshalb automatisch testen, dass es zu allen … Continue reading
(Deutsch) Classics reloaded: Das Assert-Makro von C
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Rotating Billboard with jQuery
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 … Continue reading
(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 … Continue reading