My absence
I want to apologize for my absence in the past few months, but there have been some decision i had to make.One being that i quit my full-time job being an Objective-C/iOS Developer, since my contract says that i am not allowed to…
The archives.
Code, discoveries, detours. Collected over the years.
2011
Beware of upper()/lower() in PostgreSQL
Happy new year to all of you. Today i’m going into performance impacts which can come from upper()/lower(). If you were already aware of these things, you won’t be impressed, but if you’re like me, optimizing your setup which is 5…
2010
ArchLinux domU - Setup Script
Today i played around with ArchLinux, a very neat distro! I am always trying to keep my software as minimalistic as possible, so i can easily reproduce my setups. Having similar setups helps you to keep administrative tasks to a…
git lol - the other git log
So i got tired of the git log default output, since it was simply too bloated for my Macbook Pro Terminal. It’s ok my 30” Apple Cinema Display (or one of the other 22” surrounding it), but even there it doesn’t show me enough for my…
Ever forgot to sync one of your hundred git repositories?
I guess it happens to all of us, you sit at work, you commit your changes, then you go home. While driving in your car, you might come across the thought “darn, did i push my changes?”. If you are one of those people who have so much…
Why Symbian will go down and Android/iOS will rise
Probably everyone has used, or at least seen a Symbian based phone.If you’re a normal user and don’t know what i mean by “Bluetooth Stack”, please stop reading or you just might not understand what i am talking about and get angry at me…
iPhone SDK and FlowCover (CoverFlow clone)
I got to play around with CoverFlow for the past few days since i need it in an application of mine. Sadly you are not allowed to use Apple’s API, otherwise i could just use the iPod-App API. At first i implemented the whole shebang…
Why Dell is NOT a good choice
Today i received a Spam-Mail from Dell Germany about setting up my whole office with Dell computers. At first i laughed about that statement, since i am not the biggest fan. I didn’t know that i would be crying about how limited this…
Redmine with git and gitosis
So i installed Redmine with the Redmine-Gitosis Plugin to have better controls over my repositories and projects. This is a good way to have something like github for your company. I’ll write a little about their design and why i used…
First impressions on Apple's Xcode
So after my first iPhone (2G) broke almost 1.5 years ago, i finally got another iPhone a few days back. My dad’s company (ESIRION AG) is really busy developing all kinds of fancy webapps, so he asked me if i could work my brain into…