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Retrospective 2011

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:12:51 +0000

2011 was another terrific year for akosma software, a year of growth, surprise, learning, teaching, and travel. We met fantastic new people on the road and we would like to thank all of our friends, our customers, the readers of this blog, our followers on Twitter, Facebook, Github, LinkedIn and countless other networks for their support and feedback throughout the year! May all of you have a healthy and happy 2012.

And now let us share with you some highlights of 2012!

Training

akosma software has established in 2011 a solid and successful training business, in the domains of iOS and mobile web applications:

We started the year with a successful iOS Advanced Training in February.
Then we continued with a long training, from February to June, to teach iOS to school teachers in the Canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.
Later this year we went to teach iOS development in South Africa during October, in a series of trainings co-organized with immedia.
We organized with Simplificator GmbH the first Swiss training on jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch and PhoneGap of the country, which was also a huge success in November, in Zürich.
Last but not least, we coached our friend Mathieu Tendon to get his degree thesis, implementing an Android version of Senbei!

The result of these efforts were an incredible suite of apps created by some of our students, and now available on the App Store:

Sudokulus by Pieter Muller, an incredible application that allows us to quickly solve sudoku puzzles!
TroisXRien by Vincent Zeller, a very nice app to teach maths to children!

Conferences

2011 was, without any doubt, the year of the conference; not only have we participated in lots of them as speakers, we could also be the host of an incredible mobile track and even co-organized one in Zürich!

It all started in January, when we participated at the international OOP conference in Münich.
In March Adrian was the host of the mobile track in the prestigious QCon Conference London! It was an incredible day, and you can check the videos of the sessions in the mobile track directly on the InfoQ site: Mike Lee‘s, Graham Lee‘s and his own presentation are there.
In April we went to Göteborg, Sweden to talk in the Scandinavian Developer Conference 2011!
In June we were invited by the CAINCO in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to talk about mobile applications!
In October, together with Jens-Christian Fischer from Simplificator we brought the biggest expert of the world of the mobile web, Maximiliano Firtman, to talk in Zürich!
Later that same month we attended SenchaCon in Austin, Texas, to learn more about the incredible Sencha Touch framework.
Finally, in November we went to the Mobile Developer Summit in Bangalore, to give several different talks about iOS and the mobile web.

Consulting and Development

This year we strengthtened our collaboration with clients, providing development and consulting services to industry leaders in Switzerland and abroad:

We started a long and fruitful collaboration with immedia, a leading provider of mobile application development services in South Africa, by providing them with strategy and development consulting services.
We extended the swissinfo iPad application into a universal iOS application, featuring an iPhone application too!
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies asked us for help in the definition of the mobile technologies for a humanitarian project, which consisted in an extensive report.
We helped the local protestant church, the Eglise évangélique réformée du Canton de Vaud, to create their brand new mobile application, built using Sencha Touch and PhoneGap.
We worked with many other customers who have explicitly asked us to remain anonymous, but we thank them for their trust and their business! We are proud and happy to have worked with them.

Products

Our apps also received some update love in 2011! We provided new versions of all of our iOS applications on the App Store, in many cases introducing the long-awaited iPad versions:

bluewoki has jumped to version 2.0 and introduced support for wifi networks!
Notitas has finally become a universal application! The new iPad version was a welcome addition and has had a very nice effect on sales so far.
RooiFonts has also got an iPad version!
Senbei was updated with many bug fixes.
Finally, our flagship open source project, nib2objc, has been updated to support new features of iOS 4.

On the Press

This year we have increased our presence in the media, showcasing our ideas and our opinion on the world of technology:

Early this year, our famous nib2objc project was featured in the popular open source blog “The ChangeLog”
The day before our talk at CAINCO, we were interviewed live on the Bolivian TV
We were featured in an article about the local mobile application market on the SonntagsZeitung, the most important newspaper of Switzerland!
Our talk on QCon London 2011 was featured on InfoQ.
We’ve been interviewed on the Swiss TV as well, during a special emission about smartphone applications.
And last but not least, we now have a regular column about mobile applications in the Cominmag magazine!

Other news

But that’s not all! 2011 brought lots of surprises and announcements:

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Early this year we moved to new offices in Oron-la-Ville.
The incredible team of moser design created for us an [incredible new corporate image][54], including a very cool set of logos and stationery!
We opened up a new Twitter account and a new Facebook page for the company!
We detected a huge change in the market, where the demand of mobile web apps is growing and opens up very exciting new opportunities!
During the year we dropped support for iOS 3.x in all of our products and also for the projects we create for our clients.
Finally, we also stated our policy of refusing to offshore projects.

And What About Next Year?

2012 is already filled up with new exciting projects coming up!

In January we will be part of the Jury of the Swiss App Awards.
In February we will be working with immedia providing new mobile development training sessions in South Africa.
We will be hosting the Cross-Platform Mobile track of QCon London 2012.
We will participate in GOTOcon Copenhagen 2012 in May.

But that’s not all!

Great new projects already in preparation, to be announced soon!
More trainings in Switzerland, both for iOS and the mobile web.
…and much, much more!

Stay tuned as usual, and be very happy in 2012!

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Interview on the Swiss TV

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:55:19 +0000

In the context of the French-speaking Swiss television program “TTC” (“All Taxes Included”) Adrian has been interviewed about mobile applications and the economics around it.

You can check the complete interview online! (and, as usual, Adrian’s family name has suffered a bit in the process

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Article in Cominmag

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:54:16 +0000

The October issue of Cominmag includes an article in French by akosma software about the new shape of the mobile market in Switzerland, check it out! And you can read it online too!Similar Posts:

More about our new graphic identity

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:31:06 +0000

The great work of >moser is also proudly displayed in the graphic work they’ve done for us, far beyond the logo; check out these images, and also a surprise at the end of this post!

So now get your brand new akosma gear, ready to be ordered through the akosma shop!

In the picture above: coffee mugs, a meeting notebook, stickers, and the akosma iPhone 4 Slider Case!Similar Posts:

New Visual Identity

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:55:21 +0000

We are thrilled to unveil the new visual identity of akosma software, a pure product of the incredible technique and art of moser!

We would like to thank all the moser team, in particular Emilie Mattille, Sophia Delacrétaz and Alexandre Henriques, for their incredible skills and patience in the creation of an outstanding visual identity. It represents in a simple form the values, the beliefs, our way of doing business, but also our imagination and a continuous search for innovation.

Of course, the logo is just one part of it, albeit a very important one. More will be shown very soon. Stay tuned!

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Interview in the Bolivian TV

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:38:42 +0000

In the context of the event organized by CAINCO in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on Thursday, June 16th, we were invited to be interviewed in the TV program “No Mentirás” (“You will not lie”) of the PAT network, in the evening of Wednesday 15th. The program is one of the most watched evening news shows in the country, and the objective was to raise awareness about the event to be held the following day.

The videos are available now on Justin.TV with the whole contents of the interview (in Spanish): part 1 and part 2

Here go some photos taken from the videos:

From left to right: Jose Luis Figueroa, Adrian Kosmaczewski, Olivia Stelzer, and Ezequiel Serres, host of the program. More photos:

Olivia Stelzer, Commercial Executive at CAINCO

Jose Luis Figueroa and Adrian Kosmaczewski

Jose Luis Figueroa

Adrian Kosmaczewski (no comments on the orthography of the family name )

Our interview begins in the video below, at around the 1h 29min mark:

Watch live video from PAT desde Sta Cruz on Justin.tv

The second part of the interview is in this second video:

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Resumen del Foro de Tecnología de CAINCO

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:11:04 +0000

(Para el comunicado de prensa original, siga este link)

Foro de tecnología de CAINCO:

Las redes sociales llegaron para quedarse

El profesor del Tecnológico de Monterrey-México, José Luis Figueroa, junto a Adrián Kosmaczewski, desarrollador de aplicaciones para iPhone, Mac y especialista en iPad, disertaron en el Foro de Tecnología: Aplicaciones Móviles y Redes Sociales, evento organizado por la Cámara de Industria, Comercio, Servicios y Turismo de Santa Cruz (CAINCO), en el marco del programa AL-Invest IV.

“Si alguno aún no tiene presencia en alguna de las redes sociales, lo invito a que lo haga, porque quizás sus competidores ya las están aprovechando”, dijo el profesor del Tecnológico de Monterrey-México, José Luis Figueroa, quien junto a Adrián Kosmaczewski, desarrollador de aplicaciones para iphone y iPad, disertaron en el Foro de Tecnología: Aplicaciones Móviles y Redes Sociales, evento organizado por la Cámara de Industria, Comercio, Servicios y Turismo de Santa Cruz (CAINCO), en el marco del programa AL-Invest IV.

Los más de 150 asistentes pudieron conocer de cerca los beneficios de las redes sociales para aplicarlos en sus empresas, además de la utilización correcta de las mismas como herramientas de marketing. De acuerdo al estudio publicado por silicon.com (Shelley Portet) en abril del 2011, el número de cuentas en redes sociales es mayor a la población mundial. En el mismo artículo se comenta que de ellas, cerca de 4.500 millones de esas cuentas están activas. Su crecimiento se debe a la inclusión de videojuegos en algunas redes como Facebook, y el hecho que los dispositivos móviles son cada vez más inteligentes y aceptados por la población, como las “tablets” (iPad) y los “smartphones”, (teléfonos inteligentes), ha hecho que el acceso a las redes se haga desde cualquier parte donde se encuentre el usuario.

“Las redes sociales, hoy apoyan los procesos de comunicación interna y externa, con clientes, proveedores, empleados y público en general. Utilícelas”, remarcó Figueroa.

Ante esta realidad, Adrián Kosmaczewski, expuso sobre la importancia y la evolución tecnológica que hemos vivido en los últimos tiempos, desde la llegada del teléfono hasta la actual revolución de los “smartphones”.

“Existen 94 millones de smartphones actualmente con un alto crecimiento anual. Según las encuestas, en el 2012 existirán más smartphones que pc’s.”, señaló Kosmaczewski.

El expositor comentó sobre su experiencia en el desarrollo de aplicaciones y la importancia de las mismas para poder llegar de manera más rápida y directa a los clientes, haciendo énfasis en las ventas de las mismas a través de la tienda virtual App Store de Apple.

“No tengan miedo a ser criticados por los malos comentarios o errores que noten los clientes en las aplicaciones que desarrollen, ya que esto puede ayudarnos a mejorar nuestros productos y hacerlos más eficaces con nuevas versiones de los mismos”, aseguró.

Para mayor información comunicarse con Gabriel Columba cel 76612275
Ejecutivo Principal – DIRCOM CAINCO
E-mail: gabriel.columba@cainco.org.bo

Puede obtener también la nota completa ingresando a la página de Cainco www.cainco.org.bo Similar Posts:

Article in the SonntagsZeitung: “Die neuen Schweizer Macher”

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:02:01 +0000

The SonntagsZeitung, the most widely read Sunday newspaper in Switzerland, features today an article + infographic about Swiss developers making mobile applications, and akosma software is featured (among many other friends and peers) together with the swissinfo iPad app!

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“Introduction to iOS Software Development” Video on InfoQ!

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:35:47 +0000

The “Introduction to iOS Software Development” session, part of the mobile track at QCon London 2011 last March, including the full one-hour long video & slides, is available at the InfoQ site!

By the way, check out the “Mobile App Privacy — You’re Doing It Wrong (and So Am I)” session by Graham Lee, also available on InfoQ.

Many thanks to the InfoQ team for publishing these talks!

PS: don’t forget to check out, from the same conference, Mike Lee’s Making Apps That Don’t Suck talk!Similar Posts:

nib2objc Featured on The Changelog

Adrian Kosmaczewski — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:43:46 +0000

nib2objc has been featured recently in The Changelog, a blog about open source projects:

Interface Builder is one of the coolest things about Cocoa development. Being able to draw your interfaces visually can save you tons of otherwise tedious code to create layouts and set visual styles for your user interface elements. Adrian Kosmaczewski, iPhone and iPad developer and creator of Device DNA and several other apps in the App Store turned us on to nib2objc, which is a brilliant name because it takes NIB (or XIB) files from Interface Builder and converts them to Objective-C.

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