Open Kosmaczewski

This is an evening project that turned out to be really cool. Let’s say that you’re a Macromedia Flash designer, and your clients ask you to bundle your nice Flash movie as a screen saver. What to do? For Windows there are free utilities to convert a SWF into a screen saver, but not for [...]

Back in 2004 I drafted a content management system based on PHP and AJAX, featuring ideas borrowed from everywhere and that, all in all, formed a rather coherent set. I wrote the system in a couple of days, in my daily commuting between Lausanne and Geneva, and it was called Propano.

So here it is, my first Django project: the gazillionth blog engine on the planet!. As if there weren’t enough, right? :) Actually it was a practical and easy way to learn the Django project, and the result is pretty neat. Feel free to download it, play with it, and give me [...]

I’ve just published my first Ruby on Rails plugin! As it couldn’t be otherwise, it’s called “Acts as Manifesto” (following the long tradition of “acts as” plugins in the Rails world) and you can find the project page here.
It is the simplest possible plugin, adding a generator to your Rails application. This generator allows you [...]

Every time I talk with people about Ruby on Rails in Switzerland, I almost always get the same comments, no matter what is the background of the person I’m talking to:
Yes but… what about [scalability / performance]? [I'm sure / I've read / I think / I believe / I have dreamt] that Ruby on [...]

It feels soooooo good to :)
Let me introduce you to Parking Friend. This website, which I had the pleasure to design and develop, belongs to some friends of mine, currently starting their own valet parking service in Geneva. Located not far from the airport, Jake, Dieter and their team will take care of [...]

I’ve just uploaded a new version of my Delicious Library to BibTex Converter, which might fix some issues for some users. Thanks to Hernun for the testing!

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: April - May 2006
Programming Languages: Ruby, LaTeX
Tools: TeXShop, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project
Platforms: Ruby on Rails
Download: highlighter.zip
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
Highlighter is a complete project plan, written in LaTeX and formatted as a single PDF file. It describes the creation of a hypothetical web-based project management tool, written on top of [...]

During the last few years I’ve created a number of systems, to test different languages and technologies, written a good number of papers and given some presentations; please feel free to check all of that out, download the code and play with it. Code is released either in the public domain, or with open source [...]