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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 [...]

Two conferences and one training

This week I will spend a good deal of time in one of my preferred cities: Zürich. On Tuesday I will have the privilege of talking at this week’s Webtuesday meeting at Liip’s offices. Then, on Wednesday, I’ll be giving the 5-hour iPhone training I’ve blogged before, and which has been so far an unprecedented [...]

iPhone Training in Zürich

Trifork AG and akosma software are organizing a one-day, 5-hour training in Zürich about iPhone development! The iPhone Course for Beginners takes you on a 5 hour trip, from creating your first Xcode project to submitting an application to the App Store.
This training is targeted to web, J2EE and .NET developers looking to get [...]

Roundup of Swiss Companies Writing Mac Apps

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 particular [...]

JAOO iPhone Dev Days 2009 Zürich

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 and [...]

Interview on the Tages Anzeiger

- 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 direkt auf dieser [...]

Slides, slides, slides

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 [...]

Speaking in Copenhagen and Zürich

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 the [...]

I want one

Anyone knows when are these coming to Switzerland?