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Projects

Candy
Candy is a JavaScript-based multi-user chat client for Jabber. It's focused on real-time multi-user chatting and has been used and approved in a productive environment with up to 400 concurrent users.
Octofolders
The missing folder icons for GitHub for Mac.
Optometrist for Terminal.app
Optometrist is a color theme for Terminal.app. It will make your eyes feel better instantly.
PageRank Service
PageRank Service is a simple web app providing Google PageRank results. It's powered by Sinatra and using CouchDB for caching. If you want to run your own instance, feel free to grab the source on GitHub.
PageRank Client for Firefox
PageRank Client is a Firefox extension displaying the Google PageRank of the website you're currently visiting.
Redirect Check Service
Redirect Check is a service to check the HTTP status code behind a URL (200, 301, 302, ...). It's powered by Sinatra. If you want to run your own instance, feel free to grab the source on GitHub.
Redirect Check Client for Firefox
Redirect Check Client is a Firefox extension for retrieving and displaying the HTTP status code right beside the link on a page.

Bio

Portrait of Patrick Stadler I'm Patrick Stadler, a web developer and technology enthusiast from Zürich, Switzerland. As of 2012 I work at coresystems — a swiss company which provides cutting edge cloud solutions to bring your business data to mobile devices. My job there is all about UI/UX and real-time communication, using present and future web technologies.
Atraxis was sold to EDS after the Swissair grounding I was born on May 28, 1985. The passion for computers begun early in my life. After finishing secondary school I started an apprenticeship as an Application Engineer at the Swissair subsidiary Atraxis which was sold to EDS AG after the Swissair grounding. During the time at Atraxis I became acquainted a great number of various technologies, systems and programming languages.
In my free time I enjoy nature, spending time with friends and having a good glass of wine with my girlfriend while watching a movie in our home cinema. Sometimes I relax while reading a book or playing cards and board games like poker, risk or chess. Besides that you'll often find me hacking for a better web. If you want to catch me up after working hours, try first of all at concert halls and bars.
Navigating through caribbean waters My biggest adventure so far were two blue water sailing trips for a total distance of more than 7500 nautical miles (14000 km). With only two other crew members on the 48 feet long sailing yacht ENKI, never before sailing, never before at sea, but crossing the Atlantic Ocean during a 17-day non-stop journey... that was truly a mind-blowing experience! A few months later I singend on as crew member again for a trip from Panama to Tahiti. We crossed the Panama Canal, visited the Galápagos Islands and cruised the waters of French Polynesia to drop anchor at some of the most beautiful and most remote islands on this planet.

Skills

HTML / CSS
If you need a design template turned into a rock solid website I'm the guy to call. I know the holy hacks to make things look good even in the most ancient browsers. Search engines will also love the resulting HTML markup.
JavaScript
I know how to use those fancy JavaScript libraries (jQuery, Prototype, MooTools) out there and I know how to trace the bugs deep in the molten core of scripting madness. For the sake of buzzwords, I eat AJAX for breakfast. Honestly, a web developer who can't write good JavaScript code these days isn't a good cast.
PHP
Using PHP on a daily basis for many years and projects makes me an expert. In early 2004 I released my first project based on a custom framework I wrote by myself. It's still online even though only for nostalgic reasons.
MySQL
The hardest part of using databases is keeping the slow query log empty while your data pool grows. I'm your data logistician and you shall not ORDER BY RAND() but use INDEX when needed.
*nix
Years ago Gentoo with its puristic nature helped me to really understand how Linux works. Who needs a GUI when there's Bash anyway? Since 2006 I'm operating a root server over at Hetzner Online running Debian and hosting more than 50 websites for friends and customers.
etc.
Ruby, Java, C, Perl, XML/XSLT, Shell scripting, XMPP (Jabber), PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Git, Subversion, SEO, Photoshop and I ♥ Scrum!

Contact

Feel free to contact me at patrick.stadler@gmail.com or by using the form below. I will answer your e-mail as soon as possible.

Notice: If you need support for any of my open source projects please make sure you're using the latest version. You may consider opening an issue directly on the corresponding project's home on GitHub.