Stephan Zehrer

Static Library in iOS (Xcode)

2011-02-19T11:34:00.000-08:00

As you can read in the following blog entries

static libraries are the best way to reuse code between several iOS projects.

In the second tutorial (part1) they define the BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR to have a shared build output locations. I prefere here a bit different settings:

/Users/Shared/${USER}/products (Place Build Products in)
/Users/Shared/${USER}/products/Temp (Place Intermediate Build Files in)

This separate the real products (as. e.g. a static library and its header files) and the all the other build results (e.g. object files).

Additional this setting you can simplify you search path for header files. The source tree setup of the tutorial is not required therefore.

You can set you "Header Search Path" to

${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/usr/local/include

The advantage is this setup work even independent of the configuration and therefor it is sufficient to define it for "All Configurations" either for each target or even for the project.

Hope this helps a bit ..

Stephan

No languages settings in Mac Chrome

2011-01-09T00:25:00.001-08:00

Seems there is no big chance to change the language settings in mac chrome.

Well even I am a native German I use in default the English UI. So my preferred language order (in system settings is English ,Deutsch ...

Seems Chrome only care's about the primary language but in some cases I like to have a translation from English to Germany ... seems this is at the moment not possible with chrome, isn't it?

in Bezug auf: Fonts, languages, and encodings : Basic browser settings - Google Chrome Help (auf Google Sidewiki anzeigen)

Open VMware Tools on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-27T02:13:00.000-08:00

Hey,

I just finally installed the latest version of the Open Virtual Machine Tools (2008.12.23) on my Ubuntu 8.10 installation (2.6.27-9-generic) under VM Ware Fusion (2.0.1).

Primary based on this HOWTO (first hit i found on google).

Under the expectation you downloaded the source package and you are in the following folder

cd open-vm-tools-2008.12.23-137496

You need some (additional) libraries and packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install libdumbnet-dev libdumbnet
sudo apt-get install libicu-dev

Cause I have no X development lib installed I run all with the following parameter

./configure --without-x && make

Afterwards I could install to tools:

sudo make install

We will see what is working now and what not..

Greetings and Happy New Year

Test RSS2Email

2008-03-16T14:28:00.000-07:00

Well let's see if my new RSS2Email is working :) ...

Native support of OpenID in Firefox

2008-02-08T08:26:00.000-08:00

A new enhancement is suggested for Firefox. Native OpenID support.

Yes their are AddOns already available but why an extra AddOn
Now after MS is in the boat ... what will happen with IE 8/Vista?

So vote for native support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416359

morzilla.org on the path to OpenID

2008-01-07T02:53:00.001-08:00

Now after years of discussion mozilla.org is on the path to support OpenID. At least for the sub project "Bugzilla". It is now on the roadmap for on of the next versions ( 3.2 or 4.0). Sources: Bugzilla

But you can vote for more OpenID support on mozilla.org. Think about the possibilities e.g. of "native" support in one of the big browsers. Vote here

Yes Scott 2008 will be great ;) ... btw Happy New Year!

Class-action law suit against data retention

2007-12-21T03:52:00.000-08:00

Say no!

On 9th November, the Bundestag passed the bill by the majority of votes of the big coalition to implement data retention into German law. Before the law becomes effective, the Bundespraesident has to sign it and if he does, we are going to make use of a constitutional complaint. The complete storage of communication data offends against secrecy of telecommunication and the basic right of informational self-determination.

Source: www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de

Google and identity ...

2007-12-19T02:50:00.000-08:00

Today I read some articles about Knol a "new" idea from Google and entered the page

A page which discuss Knol is already online but for me not clear how far Google is involved. (http://knolstuff.com)
At register they speak about a Ning ID. What's that?

Google added another feature: http://www.google.com/help/profile/

What's going on here?

Who is more famous?

2007-12-16T07:29:00.000-08:00

This is really simple to find out.

Just see the live trend on Google for: "SAML, OpenID, OpenSSO, SignOn, SourceID"

Atlassian add support for OpenID

2007-12-15T23:20:00.000-08:00

I just read on Jaxenter even Atlassian support with the SSO software Crowd 1.2 OpenID.

Atlassian is well know in the area of Bug-Tracking (JIRA) and Enterprise Wiki (Confluence), especially JIRA is used in many open source projects because Atlassian support a free version for them.

Bogger support OpenID

2007-12-02T22:24:00.000-08:00

cool .. Blogger and therefore Google is starting to support OpenID.

see the article on bloggerindraft

I just enabled OpenID support for all my blogs!

18 years PC

2007-11-25T01:17:00.000-08:00

I remember very well. I finished in this year (1989) secondary school (Hauptschule there exist no English word as far as I know) and worked about 5 weeks in summer holiday.

With the money I earned I bought my first PC (Olivetti M19). To get an impression for younger
people. This PC had 640KB RAM, no harddisk, just two floppy 5 1/4" discs. No CD drive ! (1985 Sony released the first generation of CD-ROM drives), green Screen (no flat *smile*) ...

And now after 18 years I took the decision to move from the "dark side" to white :) ...
.. and I can only say it is worth!

I like it really, most of the stuff I have to do is native available in Mac OS X Leopard and other stuff you get as open source. Just a few application are left, but therefor BootCamp and VMWare Fusion can help. :)

So maybe in future more posts on this topic :)

Windows is secure!

2007-11-04T11:15:00.000-08:00

Last week I had this situations on my screen. (Shot by digital cam!)

So well, you see Windows is more than secure, even login fields are disabled. Theirs was no other change, I had to switch it off.

:)

iTuns Plus now Germany...

2007-11-03T07:41:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I got one of my new favorite songs from iTunes (yes I have a iPod :) ) and I just realized that "iTunes Plus" is available in Germany (the plus sign in front of the prize).

For the same price now you can get several (unfortunately not all) song with a much better quality (well in my age you don't here the different, but well its free *smile*) and more important it is without any copy protection! So you can hear the songs on all players (which support the format).

Thats really cool now!

I love Apple more and more .. ;)

Greets

Steve

When will Apple open the iPhone?

2007-11-03T05:20:00.000-07:00

I just read on a Germany IT ticker (heise.de) that more and more people hack their iPhone to install more application.

What I don't understand, why the iPhone doesn't support JavaME?
Almost all other mobile on the world support Java and there are so many application available. In Java you can control the rights much better. Some of them even have a Java based OS!

Many people hack their mobil to install stuff, Apple (or Steven J. ;) ) ... it is time to see you have to open the phone. In a short period in France a not SIM locked version will come on the marked!

Isn't it stupid to fight again the people. Just support them as far you can.
"The customer is always right." He buys your stuff and it seems like he like it!

Btw. If Somebody like to send me a nice iPhone present? .. ;)

Greets

Steve

OpenSocial - pro and cons

2007-11-02T06:11:00.000-07:00

Now Google found again a way to make history ...

Well is this good or bad? .. I don't care lets just see what't about.

Summary:
A open standard API helps a lot to save time ant at the end money. Most of us know stuff like POP3 or IMAP, http and so on. All the social networks have the problem, they can not provide all functionality by there own. So the created an API to let other provider get connected. Most famous is Facebook. But the problem now is each party has his own API and for developers it is really hard to support all of them! So the solution is create on API and get all (or most of them) to support this, and this is what Google did.

Thanks for this! I personally think it was really time for this.

Pro:

Open API - free to use from everybody
Based on standard ( html and javascript)
Interface for server and client
Define the most imported subset for application provider
Develop once - share one application in may networks

What it's not!

It does not solve yet the problem of having accounts in many networks (as far as I understand!). I have a account in XING (famous in Germany), LinkedIn, Facebook and others, because friend of mine are in different Networks. The problem I liked so solved is, all my friends in a super network!

Tags: see "Tag Management" Is there a solution for this available? As far as I understood the API don't support tag interactions.

Identifications: No identifications method as OpenID is supported.

So we (users) still have to wait for a solution to manage our accounts in the net :(

Source: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

New Blog ... Why?

2007-11-02T05:59:00.000-07:00

I started with having one blog to comment all the things I think about. But know there several areas I like to give some comments on.

Last moth I renamed my major blog into "The Zehrer Principle" it is about my personal development and opinions of how you should interacted with other people and the world.

This new blog is about technology, I have many ideas in mind and I like to share them with the whole world :)

I am at the moment not sure about, if there is a way to move my tech comments to this blog, but in future here is the place to find them!

Greets
Steve