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No comments :) Thanks to Brett Terpstra (who interviewed me) and the TUAW guys for publishing the interview!

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 [...]

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 [...]

A small compilation of quotes I’ve put below the header of this blog during the past few years: No vemos las cosas como son. Las vemos como somos. (Hilario Ascasubi) – We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are. Don’t be afraid to try something new. An amateur built the [...]

This is something I’ve been looking forward to do for some time. After praising git back in 2007, now I’m moving many of my personal projects to Github, which has an absolutely brilliant service! For the moment I’m using the free account, but I will most probably switch to a paid account soon. The only [...]

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.

You might remember my beloved mantras: learning a new programming language and reading at least 6 relevant books every year. Following the 2007 edition, here’s the list of the 8 books I have enjoyed most in 2008, ordered by a purely subjective and absolutely irrational decreasing preference. I strongly recommend all of them! Winner: Geekonomics: [...]

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. has written about prototypes, saying that they are not only useful but strictly fundamental pieces of the overall software process, as in many other engineering activities. He gives the example of a pilot chemical plant, prepared to process 10’000 units per day instead of the 2 million units a day that [...]

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 [...]

(Highly geeky post ahead. You’ve been warned!) I have found the very message that summarizes the beauty of Cocoa in a single word; see by yourselves, hereunder in line 47: #import // The interface of a person @interface Person : NSObject { NSString* firstName; NSString* lastName; int age; } @end // The implementation of the [...]