I’m sure the pun between the acronym for “NeXT Interface Builder” and this definition of “cocoa beans” is intentional, but it surprised me anyway:
Nibs
July
14,
2008
Apple · Humour
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iPhone at the Swiss Apple Store
July
10,
2008
Available right now:
App Store arrived!
July
10,
2008
Click on the “Applications” item in iTunes, and you’ll see this at the bottom of the screen:
Clicking there, you’ll get to the App Store:
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App Store coming!
July
10,
2008
Seen in the preferences of iTunes 7.7, just released via Software Update:
When enabled, it adds the following icon to iTunes:
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The beauty of Cocoa
July
8,
2008
(Highly geeky post ahead. You’ve been warned!)
I have found the very message that summarizes the beauty of Cocoa in a single word; see by yourselves, hereunder in line 47:
#import
// The interface of a person
@interface Person : NSObject {
NSString* firstName;
NSString* lastName;
int age;
}
@end
// The [...]
Apple · Cocoa · Code · Humour · Opinion · Software
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Pastrami Sandwich
June
10,
2008
I find many similarities between an event like WWDC and a similar one I’ve attended at Redmond long ago; both are big (huge!) events, with thousands of (men) engineers from around the world (and very few women), with a keynote by the founder, lots of events every morning and afternoon, and merchandasing stuff all over [...]
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I was there!
June
9,
2008
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WWDC 2008 Keynote Main Points
June
9,
2008
The keynote is over, and I’m on the 2nd floor of the Moscone Center sipping a coffee and thinking about all the stuff that Steve and his team just presented:
The new iPhone 3G with GPS will go live on July 11th in several countries, including Switzerland! And best of all, the price of the 8 [...]
Waiting for the Keynote
June
9,
2008
Twitter’s down, but not my blog! I’m in the main Moscone conference room waiting for the start fo the keynote; there are thousands of people here! “Roll over Beethoven” is sounding all over the place…
The air is filled with electricity. This won’t last long. Just a few minutes more, and we’ll know what’s in the [...]
Sunny WWDC
June
7,
2008
Comparing Lausanne to San Francisco is a straightforward experiment:
By the way, I’m in SF. On Monday I’ll attend WWDC. But tomorrow Claudia and I are biking through the Golden Gate ;)