Spreading Funkyness

New is cool. I like to try new things, even alpha or beta stuff. I like to see changes, improvements, new directions. I like the way Apple continuously pushes improvements: one new iDevice almost each year, new software solutions, new ways to save data. But I can’t let the things I like to influence my …

This is an excerpt of a tutorial I wrote for raywenderlich.com. Many iOS apps use HTTP to communicate to a web server, because it’s easy, convenient, and well-supported. However, in some cases you might find the need to go a bit lower level than HTTP, and communicate using TCP sockets to your own custom server. …

Things change. Newspapers have been the gates of daily knowledge. Now we have blogs, twitter and so on. Either newspaper will learn how to find their place in this new context or they will die, probably slowly. We are in need of great content. Once only journalist were allowed to write it. Now everybody can. …

Scenario: I am involved in the launch of a new product. My feelings? Thrill and excitement. Many questions are rolling in my head. They can all sum up to how will it go?. I really don’t know. I am more than convinced that a product has to lead people to think “it just works”. I …

I will try to argue why the current discussion on open vs closed source is a non sense for the final user. Honestly I am try trying to figure out why Apple and its steersman sometimes bring the topic up. They usually care of design. I am not the first to say that Apple is …