iPhone Apps without Objective-C

Date Arrow  October 29, 2009

Yes, it’s possible. Even if Objective-C is one of my preferred programming languages, in any case I think it’s worth mentioning that, 2 years after the official iPhone SDK has been announced, the iPhone development landscape has really grown up, and many, many different options are available today. This article provides a very high-level enumeration [...]

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Roundup of Swiss Companies Writing Mac Apps

Date Arrow  October 23, 2009

A lot has been said and done about the iPhone, but there’s much more to Cocoa and Objective-C than our beloved pocket device.
During a chat session with Stefan Fürst from Media Atelier we put together a quick list of significant Mac applications created in Switzerland (and southern Germany), and indeed the list (in [...]

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iPhone and Mac OS X Developer Conference Roundup

Date Arrow  October 1, 2009

Here’s a quick review of the most important iPhone and Mac OS X developer conferences I’ve found on the web (in no particular order). Definitely, there’s no shortage of conferences when you need information about the latest Cocoa, Mac OS X and iPhone technologies; check this out!

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference or WWDC, held every year [...]

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Risk Management in iPhone Projects

Date Arrow  August 3, 2009

Let’s be frank: it’s not the best time to be an iPhone developer right now. In just one year of existence, the App Store seems to have evolved from the hottest to the lamest status, without any time to breathe in the middle, but with some warning signs every so often.

Several iPhone developers have publicly [...]

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PvP today

Date Arrow  June 20, 2009

Seen on PvP today:

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Myself on TUAW

Date Arrow  June 17, 2009

No comments :)

Thanks to Brett Terpstra (who interviewed me) and the TUAW guys for publishing the interview!

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Myself on the Swiss Press

Date Arrow  June 16, 2009

This is something that does not happen that often to me, so it deserves a blog post of its own: here’s two appearances of yours truly in the Swiss press last week. The first one is an article in the Tages Anzeiger of last Wednesday (full text available online), and the second one is an [...]

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WWDC 2009: a message for Scott Forstall

Date Arrow  June 8, 2009

I won’t go into details into all the stuff shown during the keynote; this is just a single comment for Scott Forstall: STOP THE BLOODY DEMOS. Last year it was pretty unbearable, yet this year you managed to make it even worse.
Thankfully I am not the only one who thinks that the interminable series of [...]

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WWDC

Date Arrow  June 7, 2009

I arrived to San Francisco yesterday night, after a dreadful connection in Frankfurt (note to self: to never, ever again book connecting flights with less than 90 minutes in between) and a great flight accross Greenland and Canada. My internal clock insists in saying that I had breakfast at 5 o’clock, but other than that, [...]

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That iPhone Keypad

Date Arrow  March 13, 2009

Finishing my series of copied flattered UIs, like that Facebook thingy or that Twitterriffic gadget, here’s Apple’s own iPhone keyboard, in a really sloppy implementation that has been blatantly and horribly copied, with awful sounds that pop when you tap the numbers and such. The Fring iPhone application uses a similar keyboard, but with [...]

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