http://www.stiefels.net it's all about zeros and ones Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been six week since I started interning at Apple and it is still overwhelming when I ride down the Infinite Loop to building 3. All the people are very nice and helpful and everybody seems to love what he/she is doing. So do I. The projects I got are highly ... http://www.stiefels.net/2008/04/28/interning-at-apple/ They did it! Today Apple released a beta version of the iPhone/iPod touch SDK for developers to create their own applications for these devices. The final SDK is about to be released in June this year. Unfortunately Apples ADC website seems to be overstrained at the moment with all the developers ... http://www.stiefels.net/2008/03/06/iphone-sdk-beta-out/ After I bought a Garmin outdoor GPS device last week I was looking around the web for some additional information about GPS. What I found was a website about geocaching. I didn't know what geocaching is before so here are a few words about it: http://www.stiefels.net/2008/03/06/my-first-geocache/ It's been a dream for me for the last several years but now it's really getting real: I will be doing an Internship at Apple! That's really cool and I'm totally thrilled about it. In less than two weeks I'll be leaving Germany and heading for sunny Cupertino for half a ... http://www.stiefels.net/2008/02/26/internship-at-apple/ The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of version 8.3 of the high-performance object-relational database management system. This release includes a record number of new and improved features which will greatly enhance PostgreSQL for application designers, database administrators, and users, with more than 280 patches by dozens of ... http://www.stiefels.net/2008/02/04/postgresql-83-released/ On March 8, 2008 the Cocoa Dev House Munich will take place at equinux AG in Munich. There are already nearly 30 attendees on the list and I hope that I can write my name on that list soon, too. http://www.stiefels.net/2008/01/29/cocoa-dev-house-munich/ Implementing syntax highlighting can be a painful task. Lots of regular expressions and thinking may be required to master this. On the search for an easy way to implement a syntax highlighting mechanism for NSTextView I found an easy and fast (regarding runtime) way to do this. By using flex (a ... http://www.stiefels.net/2008/01/22/syntax-highlighting-for-nstextview-with-flex/ Yes, we all know this. Don't trust beta software. But if you do, make backups!! Well, making backups is no bad idea, anyway. Sorry folks, but an update of ecto killed the article I was writing. Thanks to Time Machine I could restore the article but the work of two days ... http://www.stiefels.net/2008/01/13/dont-trust-beta-software/ I found a nice little video (45 min) at YouTube showing David Allen giving a speech about Getting Things Done at Google. If you already know GTD you won't find anything new, but it gives a nice overview what GTD is and why it may help you getting more productive ... http://www.stiefels.net/2008/01/08/gtd-inventor-david-allen-at-google/ It has been a few weeks since I last wrote an article. I've been busy the last time and I will be for the next four weeks. But right before 2007 ends I found a few minutes to change the design of this website. Also, the next article is "in ... http://www.stiefels.net/2007/12/30/new-design/