Hi all, my name is Patrick, I am new to this community, so I want to tell you a little bit about myself. Even if anonymity is one of the big achievements of the internet and the GDPR of Europe prevents others from spreading my personal data across the www... :-) I am almost 42 years old, living in the beautiful capital city of Hessen, Germany. I am a husband, father of four kids, can opener of two cats and I earn my money with... you might not have guessed it... coding, but also some other things around IT. Currently I am working as Senior Developer at Wedia Germany. My spare time I fill with things like swimming (teaching others to become lifeguards), some other sports and being a referee in American Football. When I am coding I have a very special talent to find bugs in other products, libraries, what so ever. I met almost every bug of our own product personally - I even know some of their first names and with a few others I am already connected in a deep friendship.
I started to use Netbeans intensively around 2008, at this time mainly as an IDE for PHP development. And now, please do not bash me... Later the company switched to the Jetbrains products, and currently we use Eclipse as Java IDE for different reasons. But I still kept an eye on Netbeans and played around with almost every major release. The first contact with Netbeans was already a few years earlier, but there I just tried to find something for RAD similar to Visual Basic or MS Access VBA, the direction I originally came from. Currently I develop mostly web and services stuff in plain Java or JSP, but sometimes I have crazy ideas to start on any DB driven app as in the old Access days and then I try to do so with Netbeans - well, not always successful, but it is fun to see how it went over the years. My OSs of choice are currently macOS and Linux, as programming languages... whatever is required. So this should be enough for the moment. I hope I did not yet upset anybody (and hopefully will never do) and wish all of us a lot of fun, health and whatever might be needed by anybody individually... Cheers, Patrick
