Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Synchronizing OmniFocus via WebDAV on Gentoo Linux

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on Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 4:02 pm
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The biggest new feature in OmniFocus 1.5 will be the possibility to synchronize multiple OmniFocus to one single database.
This is very nice as, I suppose, a lot of people have multiple installations of OmniFocus and keeping all of them up to date is a hassle. Especially now, as OmniFocus is also available for the iPhone a synchronization feature is an absolute must to keep doing GTD “stress-free”.

There are several ways to set up the synchronization feature:
* MobileMe This is probably the most convenient way but it requires you to have a MobileMe account.
* Bonjour Synchronizing via Bonjour requires to make one Mac to function as a “database server” (which has to be up and running if you want to sync) and synchronizing is only possible over the local network.
* Disk If you have NAS system or a USB hard drive connected to your AirPort you could use this option. But unfortunately the iPhone does not support this way.
* WebDAV If you have access to a web server you could use that one as an OmniFocus database server. This way you have access to your tasks from all over the world.

In this tutorial I want to show you how you can configure an apache web server to support WebDAV and what you have to do to make OmniFocus use your very own “cloud”.

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Getting started with iPhone Development

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on Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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This weekend I finally found some time to watch Bill Dudney’s screencasts about iPhone development.
The screencast series is called ‘Writing your first iPhone Application‘ and it is an ideal way to get started with iPhone application development.
All you need is a recent version of Xcode and some basic knowledge about Objective-C and Cocoa.
In 2,5 hours Bill shows you how to create a simple but nice recipe application where you can store recipes and its ingredients (sure, it is NOT a full-blown recipe database application but it serves its purpose). You learn a lot about table views, view controllers, navigation controllers and how to store your entered data persistently by using SQLite.

I really enjoyed watching it and I’d recommend to write the application in parallel while you are watching it. That way you’ll think more about how all the stuff works.
Every episode (five in total) costs $5 but I think it’s completely worth the money.

Git Presentation

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on Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 6:45 pm
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A few weeks ago I created a keynote presentation about Git for my school.
You can download it here. Please note that it is in german but feel free to modify it and use it for your own presentations.

Twitter account

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on Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 1:52 pm
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Joining the trend of twittering I created my own twitter account. :)