Open Kosmaczewski

Many people have asked me why, when I was an employee, I used to change jobs so often. The answer stands in between my own curiosity to take on new challenges, and the various assholes I had to deal with through the ages. Just as an example of this last case, here goes a true [...]

There are basically two things you can do to earn a living when you write code: Consulting Products When doing consulting, you write code, and somebody else owns it; you are blamed for its bugs, rarely praised for its benefits, and usually you only sell one copy of your work. When working on products, you [...]

This is something I should have done much earlier, but hey, better late than never: akosma software has a new website and I’m happy to invite you to take a look at it. Open Kosmaczewski will slowly become a more personal platform, as most of my future iPhone-related material will appear in the new akosma [...]

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 no [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Un ami m’a recommandé de voir cette vidéo du speech de Lee Bryant, lors du dernier Lift. Mes commentaires sur ce post.

Pour ceux qui seraient intéressés, je vends mon Power Mac G5 (acheté 2003) et son écran, plus toute une série d’accessoires, sur Anibis.ch et sur Ricardo.ch.

Dice Clarin: Según la ley europea, los bancos son los responsables de las inversiones de sus clientes y contra ellos los inversores damnificados atacarán judicialmente. Se espera una cadena de juicios multimillonarios cuando ya se habla del absoluto fracaso de los organismos de control en las grandes capitales financieras en medio de la crisis. En [...]