Voici l’annonce officielle de la conference Soft-Shake 2010: Agilité, iPhone et Java voilà les trois thèmes de la conférence Soft-Shake qui se tiendra pour la toute première fois le 18 octobre 2010 à Genève. La conférence est organisée en commun par les associations de l’Agile Tour de Genève, le Groupe des Développeurs iPhone de Suisse [...]

Le prochain mercredi 16 juin j’aurai le privilège de partager la scène avec Marco Scheurer de Sen:te, Surane Ragavan de abonobo, et Bertrand Baeriswyl lors du séminaire First “Applications iPhone: il est temps de s’y mettre!” organisé par Rezonance, créateur de liens en Suisse Romande: Plus de 140’000 applications, 3 milliards de téléchargements, 50 millions [...]

So you flew and bought an iPad, you live outside of the US, and you would like to buy iBooks, Pages, Numbers and Keynote (as well as many other amazing apps) from your own country, huh? After all, as Scoble said, “the iPad without apps is pretty lame, actually”. Well, welcome to the club. Here’s [...]

Queuing in front of the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, 767 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Saturday at 0515: Getting into the Apple Store at 0900: The most important part: buying the iPads! This photo was taken by Associated Press and later relayed by Le Figaro (6th photo) and Tages Anzeiger (5th photo), among others: Arriving [...]

Apple Switzerland just sent the following e-mail, which, I was informed, can be publicly disclosed. Steven Woolcock (Apple Worldwide Developer Relations) will be in Switzerland that day; this unique event cannot be missed in any way! iPhone Apps Development in Berne @ the University Date: Friday, 16.4.2010 Time: 9am – 3.30pm Dear customers Dear partners [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]