Best Books of 2009

Date Arrow  February 24, 2010

Every year I’m doing the same post (well, in 2006 I completely forgot to do it) that starts more or less with the same phrase: “every year I like to read at least 6 new tech books, and to learn a new programming language.”
Last year’s language was Go, and the books, well, here we [...]

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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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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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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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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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Olé, olé, olé

Date Arrow  February 15, 2009

I just stumbled into this amazing TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert via James Duncan Davidson (@duncan in Twitter) and I want to share it with you with some very personal thoughts below.

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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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Challenges for Software Engineers

Date Arrow  August 3, 2008

Software Engineering is the youngest of all the professions, being born around 50 years ago, but since then it has been continually improved. Practicers have fiercely debated upon it through the years, given the extremely fast pace of the innovations in the field, and the extremely difficult and inherently dynamic nature of software. Many trends [...]

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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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