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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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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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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New RSS Feed URL

Date Arrow  August 7, 2009

A quick message to my subscribers: I’ve moved the URL of the RSS feed to FeedBurner, following the advice of my good friend Thierry Weber, so from now the new official RSS feed URL for Open Kosmaczewski is http://feeds.feedburner.com/kosmaczewski/feed.

Thanks for your support! Your comments, support and fidelity are astounding: you are a great audience! I [...]

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Risk Management in iPhone Projects

Date Arrow  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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Code Organization in Xcode Projects

Date Arrow  July 28, 2009

Xcode does not impose any structure to your source code tree. This is both cool and useful to quickly throw a couple of lines for a prototype, but in my experience, this approach does not scale. More often than not, without any hygiene, your project can become a mess. Just using Xcode defaults, after a [...]

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Objective-C Compiler Warnings

Date Arrow  July 16, 2009

A recent comment by Joe D’Andrea in a previous post reminded me about the importance of removing compiler warnings in Xcode projects. Most importantly, it reminded me of a conversation with a fellow developer a couple of weeks ago, in which he told me that he was surprised to see that my projects compiled all [...]

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Myself on TUAW

Date Arrow  June 17, 2009

No comments :)

Thanks to Brett Terpstra (who interviewed me) and the TUAW guys for publishing the interview!

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