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 →
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 →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Slip DangerMost website owners want their pages to be well found through Google. So Google needs to be aware of each of your web pages and “understand” them. In order to help Google to find each important page, you can … Continue reading →
You can use the App Engine to retrieve web pages or other information from foreign servers and process them in your python program. This must obviously be limited, because the abuse potential is very high. Therefore you can not call … Continue reading →
If you want process an uploaded file in a cgi-programm, you often need to juggle with temporary files. How to do it with the Python in the AppEngine? Because you don’t have write access to a traditonal file system in … Continue reading →
My first impressions and some notes about programming for Googles App Engine. Continue reading →