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Patrick Gotthardt is a freelance software developer since 2004 with a focus on web applications. He is the lead developer of Jidesoft's jide.js toolkit and has previously been a leading developer behind yWorks yFiles for HTML5 product. In his earlier years, he has acquired a broad knowledge of programming languages, technologies and frameworks such as Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Scala and even Common Lisp. When he isn't working, Patrick enjoys walking through the woods with his dogs.
Patrick's article
An Introduction to jide.js
This article introduces the jide.js toolkit, which helps build modern web applications.