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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Slides, slides, slides

Date Arrow  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 [...]

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Speaking in Copenhagen and Zürich

Date Arrow  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 [...]

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Best WWDC Ever

Date Arrow  June 13, 2009

… and WWDC 2009 is finally over.
This year’s event has been nothing short of amazing; maybe because not only the technologies presented blew my mind, but also because I met and spent some time with incredible guys, and getting in touch with the right people changes everything. So, to all of you, many thanks: @cigumo, [...]

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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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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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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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