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 [...]
Roundup of Swiss Companies Writing Mac Apps
October
23,
2009
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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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Risk Management in iPhone Projects
August
3,
2009
Let’s be frank: it’s not the best time to be an iPhone developer right now. In just one year of existence, the App Store seems to have evolved from the hottest to the lamest status, without any time to breathe in the middle, but with some warning signs every so often.
Several iPhone developers have publicly [...]
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PvP today
June
20,
2009
Seen on PvP today:
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Myself on TUAW
June
17,
2009
No comments :)
Thanks to Brett Terpstra (who interviewed me) and the TUAW guys for publishing the interview!
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Myself on the Swiss Press
June
16,
2009
This is something that does not happen that often to me, so it deserves a blog post of its own: here’s two appearances of yours truly in the Swiss press last week. The first one is an article in the Tages Anzeiger of last Wednesday (full text available online), and the second one is an [...]
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WWDC 2009: a message for Scott Forstall
June
8,
2009
I won’t go into details into all the stuff shown during the keynote; this is just a single comment for Scott Forstall: STOP THE BLOODY DEMOS. Last year it was pretty unbearable, yet this year you managed to make it even worse.
Thankfully I am not the only one who thinks that the interminable series of [...]
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iPhone SDK 3.0: A New Beginning
March
22,
2009
Last year I blogged about the upcoming SDK 2.0 for the iPhone 3G, and boy did it change my life. For those who haven’t followed closely everything that happened in this blog lately, there’s been this (that’s me in the WWDC keynote main room at the Moscone center) and then that (yours truly talking at [...]
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That iPhone Keypad
March
13,
2009
Finishing my series of copied flattered UIs, like that Facebook thingy or that Twitterriffic gadget, here’s Apple’s own iPhone keyboard, in a really sloppy implementation that has been blatantly and horribly copied, with awful sounds that pop when you tap the numbers and such. The Fring iPhone application uses a similar keyboard, but with [...]
Apple · Code · iPhone
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Asynchronous Loading of Images in a UITableView
March
8,
2009
This is one of the most common scenarios for network- + UITableView-based applications; a UITableView instance whose contents come from the network; not only the text, but also the images! Somehow we all want to reproduce the behavior of the App Store (or of the iTunes) iPhone application, where the icons (or covers) of [...]
Code · Open Source · iPhone
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