suecia

Date Arrow  March 14, 2010

en suecia, al menos en göteborg, hay luces en cada ventana.
dicho asi, parece una tremenda boludez, pero es asi: mirando las fachadas de cualquier edificio, cada ventana tiene un velador entre cada cortina. siempre. de esos veladores de mesa de luz, con su pantalla color crema, dando una luz acaramelada, melosa, calida, que contrasta [...]

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Ask Me Anything

Date Arrow  February 10, 2010

Exactly what you have read: if you have any question for me, don’t hesitate and post it in formspring.me/akosma. I’ll be glad to answer it for you! Of course, iPhone-related questions are top priority. But progressive rock questions are, too. And of course, anything related to Argentina and Switzerland. And software in general. Well, that [...]

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Reflexions on the Software Business

Date Arrow  December 15, 2009

There are basically two things you can do to earn a living when you write code:

Consulting
Products

When doing consulting, you write code, and somebody else owns it; you are blamed for its bugs, rarely praised for its benefits, and usually you only sell one copy of your work. When working on products, you write code, and [...]

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Who do you want to work with?

Date Arrow  December 7, 2009

When you are a kid in Argentina, there are invariably three questions that you’ll always get asked whenever you meet a grown up person:

How old are you?
What’s your favorite football team?
What do you want to be when you grow up?

The answer to the first question depends on the moment, of course, and it’s simply a [...]

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akosma software has a new website

Date Arrow  November 23, 2009

This is something I should have done much earlier, but hey, better late than never: akosma software has a new website and I’m happy to invite you to take a look at it.
Open Kosmaczewski will slowly become a more personal platform, as most of my future iPhone-related material will appear in the new akosma blog. [...]

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5 years

Date Arrow  November 6, 2009

Today it’s the 5th anniversary of the article that would eventually become the first post of this blog. I was leaving Buenos Aires, again, and I wrote that on my old G3 iBook in the airport of Ezeiza, right before boarding. That trip was very important, for many reasons that don’t fit on a single [...]

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JAOO iPhone Dev Days 2009 Zürich

Date Arrow  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 [...]

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About the JAOO Conferences

Date Arrow  October 5, 2009

This week I had the opportunity to attend the JAOO Developer Conference 2009 in Århus (Denmark), invited by Trifork, the company behind this and other fine events, like QCon and RubyFoo. Despite being relatively unknown in the Swiss landscape, JAOO is an event unlike any other, and here’s why you should attend next time.

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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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Epic Interview: A New Literary Genre in the Tech Section?

Date Arrow  September 13, 2009

Here’s a simple recipe:

Contact the most important people in some field.
Sit down and ask a similar set of questions to each one of them.
Record all the interviews and then write them down.
Publish the resulting book, usually with great reviews (such as this one).

This does not constitute, by any means, a new genre; but it’s certainly [...]

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