2014

October 2014

Fantastic PhotoDesk 3 launch

Article from the PhotoDesk Blog

PhotoDesk 3

Article from the PhotoDesk Blog

July 2014

TextEditors, Emacs and Vim

How I ended up using Emacs with Evil VIM Bindings as my main editor...

Why Hotel WiFi is often slow and expensive

Why Hotel WiFi is often slow and expensive

Lua and OpenRest Webservers.

My current setup for a lightweight garbage collected webserver that is still very performant.

June 2014

Leverage PhotoDesk to increase your reach

Article from the PhotoDesk Blog

Understanding the powerful Switch statement in Swift

Swift optionals made simple

With Swift, Apple introduced several new programming languages features to iOS and Mac developers. One of them are Optionals. This is a simple introduction into Optionals that glosses over details to make it more approachable.

Using @autoclosure to write a Swift syntax extension

Swift's @autoclosure allows to extend the Swift syntax in fantastic ways. Observe how we re-implement the `cond` function from Lisp

January 2014

Emacs Lisp Bulk Mailer

An Emacs Lisp tooling tutorial, writing a bulk mailer

PhotoDesk 2.3.2 with additional features

Article from the PhotoDesk Blog

Finding a good URL Partitioning Scheme for PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL offers a simple method to partition table spaces into smaller spaces based on table inheritance

Clojure Static Site Generator

Clojure/Enlive Static Site Generator that keeps your HTML intact

Debugging entitlement issues in Maps, iCloud, In-App, Keychain, or GameCenter

I recently ran into an issue where a Mac App did lack an entitlement even though I had all entitlements properly set up in my account. I also had performed rigourous testing prior to submission, which made it even more worrisome as I had no idea how to proceed.

Now Running Clojure

This blog has been lingering for far too long now. The reasons for that are manifold, but there are three primary ones which I would like to elaborate further.