I found today that Mobile Safari, the browser bundled with the iPhone, has a very strange and annoying behaviour when it comes to web apps. In fact, when you “install” web applications with the <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> tag in the “Home Screen”, the USER_AGENT header sent to the server is different to the [...]
HTTP Headers, Web Apps and Mobile Safari
October
30,
2009
How to? · iPhone
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iPhone Apps without Objective-C
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 [...]
Apple · Open Source · iPhone
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Roundup of iPhone App Sketchbooks
October
27,
2009
Nailing down the idea, the navigation and the UI of your next killer iPhone application is as important (if not more) as writing good code. This is why this post will showcase some recent iPhone designer products, all providing a paper-based, iPhone-shaped and iPhone-sized support for sketching out iPhone apps with your client (or just [...]
Quality · iPhone
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JAOO iPhone Dev Days 2009 Zürich
October
13,
2009
Last week’s JAOO iPhone Dev Day was a big success. Featuring Raven Zachary, Alex Cone, Jonas Schnelli, Patrick Bönzli and Patrick Linskey and yours truly, the event gathered many attendees interested in the capabilities of the iPhone for their businesses.
This is a small review of the event, organized by the incredible teams of Trifork and [...]
Opinion · iPhone
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iPhone and Mac OS X Developer Conference Roundup
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 [...]
Apple · Cocoa · Opinion · iPhone
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Using Multiple Twitter Clients from your iPhone Application
September
11,
2009
I love playing with iPhone URL schemes. And if you ask me, just like for Mail.app and Safari, I think there should be a “default” Twitter client URL scheme in the iPhone, with an interface in the Settings application allowing you to set the application that you prefer to tweet. Alas, this is not the [...]
Open Source · Twitter · iPhone
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Slides, slides, slides
September
10,
2009
I’ve been doing presentations for a while now, so I decided to open a SlideShare account to publish all the slides I’ve created over the past 5 years. SlideShare has a great Flash-based viewer that you can embed in web pages, so I’ll be using it a lot now. Check out my presentations, feel free [...]
Papers · Switzerland · iPhone
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Copenhagen Slides Available
August
31,
2009
Another quick post to announce that I’ve published the slides (and sample application) I’ve shown last week in Copenhagen; feel free to download them from the projects section!
Remember that I’ll be hosting a similar talk on September 9th in Zürich! I look forward to see you there and to discuss about iPhone development.
Papers · iPhone
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Speaking in Copenhagen and Zürich
August
26,
2009
Just a quick post to tell you all that I’ll be speaking tomorrow evening (August 27th, 2009) in Copenhagen (Denmark) in the free JAOO Geek Night organized by the great team of Trifork. They are the organizers of world-class events such as the QCon London, QCon SF and RubyFoo London!
But even better news for the [...]
Opinion · Switzerland · iPhone
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Muchas Notitas, Muchas!
August
11,
2009
Notitas is available at an App Store near you! Notitas means “small notes” in Spanish, and it’s the fourth iPhone application under the akosma brand, and the first based on an original idea of my dear wife!
As the name implies, it’s a simple and easy way to create, keep and find notes in your iPhone, [...]