Je vends mon vieux G5

Date Arrow  February 14, 2009

Pour ceux qui seraient intéressés, je vends mon Power Mac G5 (acheté 2003) et son écran, plus toute une série d’accessoires, sur Anibis.ch et sur Ricardo.ch.

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iPhone Font Browser

Date Arrow  November 12, 2008

One of the most common questions I get when working with clients on iPhone apps is this one: Which fonts can I use in iPhone apps? I was surprised to see that the Xcode documentation does not bring a list of the fonts available in the iPhone OS (have I missed it? Is it somewhere [...]

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iPhone Conference 2008: a bit of magic!

Date Arrow  November 3, 2008

This is the talk I gave last Friday during the first edition of the iPhone Conference 2008! I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed giving it :)

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iPhone Conference 2008 Geneva

Date Arrow  September 15, 2008

Those of you who have been following this blog for the past years know that I have somewhat reduced my “writing rhythm” these days, and many factors have caused this. For the past 3 months I’ve been not only finishing my Master’s degree, but I started working as a full-time, independent iPhone developer, and soon [...]

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Nibs

Date Arrow  July 14, 2008

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:

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iPhone at the Swiss Apple Store

Date Arrow  July 10, 2008

Available right now:

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App Store arrived!

Date Arrow  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!

Date Arrow  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

Date Arrow  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 implementation of the [...]

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Pastrami Sandwich

Date Arrow  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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