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Jens Alfke

Apple veteran who shaped AppleScript, iChat and Safari RSS

EngineeringmacOSiOS
The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • At Apple helped design the Open Scripting Architecture and the Script Editor, worked on iChat, and added RSS/Atom feed support to Safari.
  • Created CouchCocoa and Couchbase Lite, open-source Objective-C data-sync frameworks widely used by iOS and Mac developers.

Couchbase

Mobile Architect · current

After Apple, built Couchbase Lite and CouchCocoa, an Objective-C database API for iOS and Mac

Why

Why we celebrate them.

Jens has quietly touched software millions of Mac users rely on daily -- Stickies, iChat, Safari feeds -- and still ships open Cocoa code for the next generation.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • github.com/snej
  • couchbase.com
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Jens Alfke, this belongs to you.

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