Author Archives: Patrick Gotthardt
The power of simple design
As most of you will probably know, I’m not exactly the world’s best designer, yet, I’ve recently had the most positive response a designer could recieve. I accepted a client who wanted a simple WordPress installation and for me to … Continue reading
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PgsAction and Guice — a mix made in heaven
Close to 100 years ago I published an Open Source library called “PgsAction”. This library was targeted towards Swing developers who used Swings Action class. PgsAction supports to styles of usage. You can extend from the AbstractSystemAction class and gain … Continue reading
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Using Inkscape on Leopard
When I recently tried to get Inkscape running on my MacBook it just wouldn’t startup. Well, it was kind enough to tell me that it was now loading the fonts and that this step might take some time, but confirming … Continue reading
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“Java 6: Anwendungen programmieren”, featuring me ;)
Just a quick note: One of my Professors at university, Prof. Dr. Helmut Balzert, has recently published his new book Java 6: Anwendungen programmieren (roughly “Java 6: Application development”). It is, obviously, written in german and I’ve again been asked … Continue reading
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Pgs_StringTemplate 1.0 beta 1 released
In my previous blog entry I introduced Pgs_StringTemplate. Today I’m announcing the first beta release of this project. It includes: The ST-Compiler An introduction to ST (based on my previous blog entry) The Treebank-website with complete source code (as an example … Continue reading
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Introducing Pgs_StringTemplate — yet another PHP template engine
There has been a lot of discussions about Template-Engines and PHP for years with opinions ranging from “PHP is a great template language on its own!” to “Using PHP for templates feels like shooting birds with a bazooka.” As for … Continue reading
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