Category iPhone

iPhone & iPad Developer Contest: win an iPad!

As a part of the DevDay for iPhone in London and Geneva you will have the chance to win one of three iPads!
These are the rules and conditions:

It has to be a new application (for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or, even better, all of them at once) not yet available in the Apple App Store;
The [...]

Senbei, a Fat Free CRM iPhone Client

I’m a happy user of Fat Free CRM by Michael Dvorkin. I’ve been using it since the start of akosma software to keep track of my projects, clients, prospects and even as a simple to-do list. It helps me as a “corporate memory”, tracking every interaction I have with my clients and partners (phone calls, [...]

iPhone Dev Day in Geneva on April 28th

Those of you who have been following me for long might remember an article I wrote in my personal blog two years ago (in French, translated here):
Why can’t we have conferences like this one, with mini events like this one in parallel in the French-speaking part of Switzerland? Or even like this one? Or like [...]

Talking at the Skills Matter Meeting in London Next Week

Preparing the path for the amazing iPhone Dev Days 2010 in April, next week I’ll be giving some tips and tricks about iPhone development, in London!

This will happen in the Skills Matter’s meeting, at the The Skills Matter eXchange, 116-120 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7DP, on Tuesday, February 2nd, at 18:30.
I hope to see [...]

EasyTableView for iPhone Prototyping

Our first blog post of 2010 presents a tool that we’ve been using internally and that might be useful for other people.

As you might have experienced, prototyping applications in Interface Builder is fine as long as you don’t deal that much with UITableViewController instances. Prototyping user interfaces with tables and navigation is not as [...]

Kevin Smith iPhone Application

I’ve just been notified by the nice guys from DenVog that the Kevin Smith iPhone application includes code from my Asynchronous UITableView sample, posted earlier this year. The app also features the MGTwitterEngine from Matt Gemmell, too.
Thanks for the credits guys! I’m glad my code has been helpful to you.

10 Things Every iPhone App Designer Should Know

Design is a fundamental part of iPhone app development. It is, without any doubt, the difference between a crappy and a great application. It can be the discriminating factor of life and death on the App Store, and the competition is brilliant and strong. The best teams, like Tapbots, Sophiestication or Jilion have understood that [...]

Upcoming Conferences: SDC in Göteborg and iPhone Dev Days in London

2010 will be for akosma software, without any doubt, the year of the conference.
I am delighted and absolutely thrilled to announce that there already are two major events in the agenda for next year, where I will have the privilege to share the stage with major names in the field, to talk about this [...]

Webtuesday: Mobile App Frameworks

I had great fun yesterday at Liip’s offices, during the monthly Webtuesday meeting. The presentation, which consisted in a high-level overview of mobile web application frameworks and platforms, gathered around 20 people, and the conversations and discussions (and the beers) after the talk were great. I hope that everyone enjoyed the evening as much as [...]

That Mobile Programming Mess

Let’s be honest. 3 months ago I said that it wasn’t a good time to be an iPhone developer. Today, it looks like being one sucks every day a bit more. This article will dive into the alternatives, horrors, breakpoints, misconceptions, IDEs, sadness, hope, USB cables, and all those different factors that are shaping this [...]