Gerd Riesselmann: Notes From the Bog

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Do you like IE's behaviors? You can use them in Mozilla, too.

Google Suggest Beta is out.

I recently introduced the PHP Printer Design Pattern and promised to talk about applying this pattern to tables and form. The printer pattern separates static and dynamic parts of a page and encapsulates the static part into a class, and I will do the same on tables now, coming up with a fully functional table printer class that even allows splitting up tables into several pages using only two lines of code.

Another nominee for the most broken development tool: Actuate Report Designer.

For my provider had problems with his RAID, my site got lost - and caught me in the middle of redesigning my local copy. For I was too lazy to set up CVS, I couldn't move back.

Error messages from outer space: Maximo 5 forwards you to a literature magazine website if you are stupid enough to log in as administrator in the adminstration environment.

The world of keyboard shortcuts: Did you know?

Introduces the printer pattern to PHP. Based on the strategy design pattern, the printer pattern encapsulates the generic parts of a page, leaving the specific ones to the client. This removes redundances and allows clear seperation of business and interface code.

Starting my first PHP project I was reminded the hard way that arrogance produces problems. PHP is easy? It maybe it, but mainly it is easy to write really bad code, even as an experienced programmer. Lesson learned: Respect your programming language.