Yesterday I attended this month’s Mobile Monday meeting in Bern, and among all the presentations, the best ones (in my opinion, they were outstanding) were those of Nicholas Heller from Google and Marc Lamarche from Edipresse. I will quickly summarize this last one in this blog post.  Marc did a great job of presenting Edipresse [...]

Due to unprecedented growth, akosma software is hiring. Here’s what we offer: A full-time position as a partner software developer (for the moment, just one, but stay tuned). Your primary task will be to create and maintain software products, either our own or our clients’. But beware: coding is only part of the job: you [...]

A couple of days ago I’ve forwarded this article on The Apple Blog to a friend of mine: “Why Apple’s iPad Can’t Succeed in Schools (Yet)”, by Liam Cassidy. This article, even if written in a supposedly “pro-Apple” blog, is rather critic and makes some debatable assertions at best, some of them without any proper [...]

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 [...]

A new template on our preferred blogging platform, a couple of tweaks here and there – one of the advantages of working on an open-source platform – and a thriving business landscape. Things are looking better than ever. After only a few months of operation, akosma sofware is already moving towards its objective: to become [...]

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 [...]

- Wie viel Erfahrung muss man mitbringen, wenn man eine Applikation schreiben möchte? – Man sollte schon einmal mit einer Programmiersprache wie C++ gearbeitet haben. Wer bisher JavaScript und Ähnliches benutzt hat, muss noch einiges dazulernen, umdenken. – Könnte das populäre Telefon auch Junge animieren, ins Programmieren einzusteigen? – Es gibt schon junge Talente, die [...]

Last year I blogged about the upcoming SDK 2.0 for the iPhone 3G, and boy did it change my life. For those who haven’t followed closely everything that happened in this blog lately, there’s been this (that’s me in the WWDC keynote main room at the Moscone center) and then that (yours truly talking at [...]

Talk given at the iPhone Conference 2008.

Teaser #2 for the iPhone Conference at Geneva