What's in Your Container? Securing the Software Supply Chain Without Slowing DownHow do we secure massive, complex supply chains without slowing your developers down to a crawl? This talk provides a simple preview to Red Hat’s Trusted Software Supply Chain, based on three pillars: Transparency through the Trusted Profile Analyzer; Identity, thanks to the Trusted Artifact Signer; and Guardrails, with the Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes.
Bestseller TalkTen years ago, almost to the day, I delivered what turned out to be the “best-selling” talk of all my conference speaking career, with effects that I can feel to this day.
How to Get a Standing Ovation as a Conference SpeakerI keep on attending otherwise interesting talks and conference sessions being flushed down the toilet by appalling deliveries. This is my plea to you: please, please, PLEASE: if you have to speak in public, follow these rules to ensure a standing ovation at the end of your talk.
Share Your Terminal Live on the Web With ttydIf you’re in the business of giving demos or talking at conferences, webinars, or other gatherings, sooner or later you’ll have to show your terminal for a demo; in this case, this week’s article will surely interest you: ttyd.
How to Speak, by Patrick WinstonI’ve been recommending this talk a lot lately to people new to the art of speaking, who find themselves all of a sudden boosted to the front stage of an event and in dire need of help.
The Last Day of a Tech ConferenceHave you ever stayed until the end of a conference, and walked down the halls of the conference center during the last day of an event?
Memories of WWDC 2008Exactly 15 years ago, on Monday, June 9th, 2008, I published a blog post with a picture taken in the big room of the Moscone conference center in San Francisco, waiting for Steve Jobs to introduce the iPhone 3G to the world at the annual Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference 2008.
How to Use Demo MagicMy colleague Tobru recently pointed me to demo-magic, and I now seriously wonder how could I ever do a live demo without this. The description of the project says it all:
Comments about the AWS Serverless WorkshopYesterday I attended the AWS Swiss Cloud Day (what a fantastic event!) and participated in the workshop about Serverless computing taught by a very competent team lead by Magdalena Gargas and Scott Gerring.
How to Use a MicrophoneAt some point in your professional speaking life you will have to hold a dynamic microphone in your hands in front of an audience, just like a rock star. Not only should you be aware that it’s not a pepper mill, there’s a few more things to keep in mind while using them.
TeachingIn November 2015 I attended the DO iOS conference in Amsterdam. After the event was over, I had dinner in a pub with my friend Daniel Steinberg, whom I had not met in more than three years, and who had just held a terrific Swift workshop in the event.
About Remote ConferencesAs the pandemic starts challenging all aspects of our life, I tweeted my personal opinion about software conferences in a thread.
New Swiss Conference: GOTO Zürich!We are proud to participate in the first GOTO Zürich for Developers + GOTO Zürich For Leaders Conferences as one of the sponsors! The GOTO Conferences happen all over the world, in Berlin, Amsterdam, Århus, Chicago, Prague and now Zürich too!
Mobile JavaScript Application Development Book Launch Event in South AfricaI’m very glad to announce that our friends of [immedia] in Durban, South Africa, will be hosting a launch event for our latest book “Mobile JavaScript Application Development”! It will take place next Thursday at 6 PM in the immedia headquarters (Level 3 @ The Quarterdeck, 69 Richefond Circle, Ridgeside Office Park, Umhlanga 4320, Durban).
Attending WWDC 2012Next week I’ll be attending the 2012 edition of WWDC in San Francisco! A whole week full of training sessions, labs, and meetings with cool friends from all over the world. And apparently with many surprises, as several sessions in the schedule (requires login) are marked as “to be announced”.
SwissJeese 2012 Slides, Code and PicsLast Saturday took place the first edition of SwissJeese in Bern! The event was an outstanding success and kudos to the organizers for an incredibly cool gathering.
Talking at SwissJeese 2012I’m very proud and happy to announce that tomorrow I’ll be talking in the first edition of SwissJeese!
This week: Mobilism 2012 AmsterdamThis week we are very happy to announce that will be attending the 2012 edition of Mobilism Amsterdam organized by Peter-Paul Koch (of QuirksMode fame), Krijn Hoetmer and Stephen Hay!
Vidéo de la Présentation de Sencha Touch 2Voici la vidéo de la présentation de Adrian à propos de Sencha Touch 2, lors de la réunion du groupe JavaScript Genève le 28 mars dernier.
Tonight in Geneva: Introduction to Sencha Touch 2Tonight Adrian will be presenting Sencha Touch 2 to a select group of JavaScript fanatics!
Swiss App Awards 2012 Winners!We proudly present the winners of Swiss App Awards 2012: Best User Experience App: Pilotifant for iOS, by WIRZ/Millform AG Most Downloaded App: SBB Mobile for multiple platforms, by SBB AG Best Web App: AppAware for Android, by 42matters AG Best Game App: MonsterUp for Windows Phone, by kariosgames.com Best Bank App: MoneyBook for iOS, by noidentity gmbh People’s Prize: Swisscom Fan-Glocke for iOS, by Swisscom AG/DU DA Group/Saatchi&Saatchi App of the Year: Pilotifant for iOS, by WIRZ/Millform AG Interestingly enough, the contest was truly cross-platform, and there were winners on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and other platforms.
Tonight is Swiss App Awards 2012 Night!We are thrilled to remember you that tonight will be held the ceremony of the first Swiss App Awards! It will be held from 18:30 at The Millennium Room of the Hotel Marriott (Neumühlequai 42, Zürich). We are going to celebrate the incredible quality and work that the Swiss are injecting into mobile app stores!
This week: QCon London 2012!This week, akosma software will be in London hosting the Cross-Platform Mobile Track of QCon London 2012! This year we have great speakers talking about how to create mobile applications using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3:
Swiss App Awards Nominees!The jury of the Swiss App Awards has just published the official list of nominees in each category!
GOTO Copenhagen 2012: Call for Speakers!I am very happy to announce that I will be the host of the Mobile Technologies: Native + Web track of GOTO Copenhagen 2012! The track will feature talks by Brian LeRoux, Graham Lee and Jérôme Giraud.
QCon London 2012: Cross-Platform Mobile Track Announcement!The Cross-Platform Mobile Track of QCon London 2012 is ready to be announced! This year we’ll have great speakers talking about how to create mobile applications using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3:
Swiss App Awards: Don't Forget!The deadline of the Swiss App Awards is approaching! Don’t forget to submit your application using the form before January 15th!
Swiss App Awards 2012: Submit your app now!I’m honored to announce that I will be part of the jury of the next Swiss App Awards 2012, to be held in Zürich, on January 27th, 2012!
QCon London 2012: Call for Papers in the Cross-Platform Mobile TrackJust like last year, I am thrilled to announce that I will be the host of the Cross Platform Mobile track in QCon London 2012!
Attending SenchaCon 2011We are very happy to announce that next week we will be attending SenchaCon 2011, the most important event of the year around the Sencha frameworks. This will happen in Austin, Texas, from the 23rd to the 26th of October.
"jQuery Mobile: multiplatform mobile webapps" by Maximiliano Firtman!Invisible GmbH and akosma software are thrilled and excited to present the talk “jQuery Mobile: multiplatform mobile webapps” by Maximiliano Firtman at Hub Zürich on Friday, October 21st at 18h, with the sponsorship of /ch/open.
Speaking at the Mobile Developer Summit in BangaloreI am thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at the Mobile Developer Summit in Bangalore, India, on November 2-3! This event, organized by Saltmarch Media will be hosted at the premises of Indian Institute of Science.
Resumen del Foro de Tecnología de CAINCOEl 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.
Foro de Tecnologia en Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, el 16 de junioEl 16 de junio tendré el privilegio y el honor de exponer a propósito de aplicaciones móviles en el Foro de Tecnologia “24/7 al alcance de tus clientes” que se llevará a cabo en los edificios de la CAINCO en Santa Cruz de la Sierra, en Bolivia.
"Introduction to iOS Software Development" Video on InfoQ!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!
Presentation at OOP 2011This is the presentation I’ve given in the OOP Conference 2011 in München, Germany: “Introduction to iOS Software Development”.
Presentation at QCon London 2011This is the presentation I’ve given in QCon London 2011: “Introduction to iOS Software Development”
Presentations at SDC 2011These are the presentations I’ve given at the Scandinavian Developer Conference 2011 in Göteborg, Sweden: “Integrating iOS Applications with Backend REST Services” and “Mobile Web Rising”.
Talking at the Scandinavian Developer Conference 2011Next week I’ll be speaking at the Scandinavian Developer Conference 2011! This year I will be giving the following two talks on Monday April 4th, in the Mobile track:
Conferences 2011: OOP, QCon and SDC2011 has just started and we already have a couple of exciting news: we are humbled and thrilled to announce our participation in some awesome conferences throughout Europe!
Talking at the EPFL TodayToday at 1400 CET Adrian will be talking at the world-famous Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), giving an introduction to iOS development to students.
QCon London 2011: Call for Papers in the Mobile TrackI am honored to announce that I will be taking part in QCon London 2011, but this time not as a speaker, but as host of the mobile track!
JAOO Workshop: Building your first iPhone ApplicationThis morning I’ve had the immense pleasure of guiding many students in Århus, Denmark, in taking their first steps with iOS, the iPhone, Xcode and Interface Builder. This event was part of the workshops proposed during the JAOO conference, and which target a very wide range of topics.
JAOO 2010It’s that time of the year again: JAOO 2010 is getting closer, with sessions and workshops from Sunday October 3rd to Friday 8th. JAOO has been held since 1996, and it is a multi-language, non-vendor focused, eclectic, flexible conference where you can learn about those technologies you’ve never heard about, or those you never had the time to explore in depth. I can’t but recommend to any software engineer to attend, given the breadth and the quality of the presentations.
"Dev Day for iPhone" sur Le Temps«Face à cette demande, il manque des développeurs pour iPhone en Suisse. Nous devons être une centaine en Suisse romande et n’arrivons pas à répondre à toutes les offres» confirme Stephan Burlot, de la société Coriolis, à Chevilly (VD). «Bon, de nombreux développeurs viennent du monde de l’open source et ne sont pas forcément à l’aise avec le monde plus fermé d’Apple», sourit Adrian Kosmaczewski, directeur d’Akosma Software, à Pully.
Rezonance First: Panorama et enjeux du marché des applications iPhoneVoici les slides de la présentation que j’ai donné hier dans le cadre du Rezonance First “Applications iPhone: il est temps de s’y mettre!”
Applications iPhone: il est temps de s'y mettre!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:
Mobile Advertising, by EdipresseYesterday 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.
iPad for Developers PresentationThis is the presentation about the new features in iPhone OS 3.2 and the iPad in yesterday’s geek night, at Zurich’s Technopark, done together by Jonas Schnelli from include7, Jørn Larsen from Trifork GmbH and akosma software.
iPhone Apps Development in Berne @ the UniversityApple 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 and iPad Developer Contest: win an iPad!As a part of the DevDay for iPhone in London and Geneva you will have the chance to win one of three iPads!
Mobile Marketing: Branding Seminar in Zürich – Save 15%!Aberla is organizing a Mobile Marketing & Branding Seminar in Zürich, on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010, from 1300 to 1800, at the Renaissance Hotel, Thurgauerstrasse 101, Zurich.
iPhone Dev Day in Geneva on April 28thThose 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):
Skills Matter PresentationYesterday’s presentation in the Skills Matter meeting is available in Slideshare!
Talking at the Skills Matter Meeting in London Next WeekPreparing the path for the amazing iPhone Dev Days 2010 in April, next week I’ll be giving some tips and tricks about iPhone development, in London!
Upcoming Conferences: SDC in Göteborg and iPhone Dev Days in London2010 will be for akosma software, without any doubt, the year of the conference.
Webtuesday: Mobile App FrameworksI had great fun yesterday at Liip‘s offices, during the monthly Webtuesday meeting. The presentation, which consisted in a high-level overview of mobile web application frameworks and platforms, gathered around 20 people, and the conversations and discussions (and the beers) after the talk were great. I hope that everyone enjoyed the evening as much as I did!
Two conferences and one trainingThis 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 success! Stay tuned for future editions of this training in 2010.
JAOO iPhone Dev Days 2009 ZürichLast 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.
About the JAOO ConferencesThis week I had the opportunity to attend the JAOO Developer Conference 2009 in Århus (Denmark), invited by Trifork, the company behind this and other fine events, like QCon and RubyFoo. Despite being relatively unknown in the Swiss landscape, JAOO is an event unlike any other, and here’s why you should attend next time.
iPhone and Mac OS X Developer Conference RoundupHere’s a quick review of the most important iPhone and Mac OS X developer conferences I’ve found on the web (in no particular order). Definitely, there’s no shortage of conferences when you need information about the latest Cocoa, Mac OS X and iPhone technologies; check this out!
Slides, slides, slidesI’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 to download them and also to use them if you find the contents useful for you (they are distributed with Creative Commons licenses).
Speaking in Copenhagen and ZürichJust 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!
Best WWDC Ever… and WWDC 2009 is finally over. This year’s event has been nothing short of amazing; maybe because not only the technologies presented blew my mind, but also because I met and spent some time with incredible guys, and getting in touch with the right people changes everything.
WWDC 2009: a message for Scott ForstallI won’t go into details into all the stuff shown during the keynote; this is just a single comment for Scott Forstall: STOP THE BLOODY DEMOS. Last year it was pretty unbearable, yet this year you managed to make it even worse.
WWDC 2009I arrived to San Francisco yesterday night, after a dreadful connection in Frankfurt (note to self: to never, ever again book connecting flights with less than 90 minutes in between) and a great flight accross Greenland and Canada. My internal clock insists in saying that I had breakfast at 5 o’clock, but other than that, I feel great, really excited!
iPhone Conference 2008: a bit of magic!This is the talk I gave last Friday during the first edition of the iPhone Conference 2008! I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed giving it :)
Interview sur com.in MagazineInterview by Victoria Marchand, appeared in the October 2008 issue of com.in magazine (download PDF scan of the article).
iPhone Conference 2008 GenevaThose of you who have been following this blog for the past years know that I have somewhat reduced my “writing rhythm” these days, and many factors have caused this. For the past 3 months I’ve been not only finishing my Master’s degree, but I started working as a full-time, independent iPhone developer, and soon some of my code will be available on the AppStore.
WWDC 2008 Keynote Main PointsThe keynote is over, and I’m on the 2nd floor of the Moscone Center sipping a coffee and thinking about all the stuff that Steve and his team just presented:
Pourquoi Pas?Pourquoi ne peut-on pas avoir des conférences comme celle-ci, avec des mini-events comme celui-ci en parallèle en Romandie? Ou encore comme celle-ci? Ou bien comme cette autre! Ou celle-là!
WWDC Schedules in iCal FormatFor those attending WWDC, and wanting to have the module complete schedule in iCal (as suggested by TUAW), I’ve created a small script (using Prototype) that will transform the JSON data of the official WWDC schedule into calendar files, which you can save and load into iCal.
WWDC 2008: I'll Be There!I’ve just bought my e-ticket for Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2008! This one will be the first one featuring iPhone developer tracks, and that’s one of the main reasons for me to go. Another good one is that neither Claudia nor me know San Francisco, so it’ll be a great time to hang out and visit the city.
Barcamp Lausanne 2Just a quick post to announce that I will be speaking next Saturday at the second Barcamp Lausanne. My topic?
Geneva Techdays 2006 Powerpoint SlidesWell the PowerPoint slides that I used during the TechDays 2006 conference have been published in the TechDays page. You can download them from this site as well:
A New Programming Language Every YearSomewhere I read that it was a good thing to learn at least one new programming language every year; I think I have kept up that trend since 1992: