Writer, Software Developer and Trainer.
Bio
Adrian Kosmaczewski is a writer, a software developer and a trainer. He is the author of five books about mobile software development, and has shipped mobile, web and desktop apps for iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux since 1996. Adrian holds a Master in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool. Together with Graham Lee, he is the creator of De Programmatica Ipsum.
When not coding or teaching, Adrian likes to spend time with his wife Claudia, his cat Max and his Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter.
Resume and LinkedIn profile.
Videos
Adrian is a regular speaker at developer conferences since 2006.
2018
2017
2016
Earlier
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"Cocoa is the new Carbon: The Future of Apple’s Beloved Framework", Zürich, Switzerland, February 26th, 2015.
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"iBeacons", May 26th, 2014 in Zürich, Switzerland; August 13th 2014 in Leeds, UK; August 14th 2014 in London, UK; September 30th 2014 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and October 28th 2014 in Durban, South Africa. Code available on Github.
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"What’s new in iOS 7", at GOTO Nights in Eindhoven and Amsterdam (November 20th and 21st 2013) and Zurich (December 18th 2013.) Code available on Github.
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"Présentation de Sencha Touch 2", at a JS Genève Meetup, March 28th, 2012.
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"Integrating iOS Applications With Backend Rest Services", at the Mobile Developer Summit 2011, Bangalore, India.
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"Ten Commandments for iPhone Development", at the Mobile Developer Summit 2011, Bangalore, India.
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"Mobile Web Rising", at the Mobile Developer Summit 2011, Bangalore, India.
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"Introduction to iOS Software Development", at QCon London 2011, United Kingdom.
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"Tips and Tricks on Building Successful iPhone Apps", February 2nd 2010 in London, United Kingdom, at Skills Matter.
Books
Adrian has written many books about mobile application development and a novel since 2012.
Articles
Adrian writes his mind regularly:
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"Being A Developer After 40" – received more than half a million views and has been shared over six thousand times on social media, and has been translated to Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Portuguese, Persian, Vietnamese, and Romanian.
You can find more at De Programmatica Ipsum.
Code
Adrian has worked as a professional software developer since 1997.
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SwiftMoment: A time and calendar manipulation library for iOS, macOS, tvOS, & watchOS, written in Swift 4 with Xcode 9.
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nib2objc: Set of tools and utilities (command line, GUI, Mac Service) to transform NIB files for the iPhone into Objective-C code files
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eBook-Template: Template to create PDF, ePub and Kindle books with Asciidoctor
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PlaygroundBookGenerator: Ruby scripts that can generate a whole Swift Playgrounds for iPad book from a Markdown file]
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dotfiles: Configuration files for several command-line tools
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iOS7-Presentation: A short summary of new APIs and features available for app developers in iOS 7. Shown in the GOTO Nights in Eindhoven and Amsterdam (November 20th and 21st 2013) and Zurich (December 18th 2013)
You can find more at GitLab and Github, or at his Stack Overflow Story.
Presentations
Interviews
Adrian has been featured in interviews and podcasts all over the world:
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