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PrEV coreanimation color cocoa core | Core Animation | Saturday September 06, 2008 | By objc

While writing an example of how to understand the 3D transforms possible with CALayer I had a bit of an epiphany about how to make building colors easier. Instead of the utility class I'd been using I cooked up this little category on NSColor. Of course I...

PrEV screencast core pragprog animation coreanimation podcast | Core Animation | Tuesday September 02, 2008 | By objc

I finally finished Episode 6 of The Core Animation Screencast . Man is is way over due (sorry!). It is a bit long again but its really worth it (I think, but you will have to be the judge). In this episode we wrap things up with the final bits of...

PrEV games life animation coreanimation iphone core | iPhone | Thursday August 21, 2008 | By objc

I got the next chapter in Gala Factory pushed out to the app store yesterday, just waiting on apple review. In the mean time please check out the demo video on youtube. Thanks!

PrEV coreanimation iphone animation core | iPhone | Saturday August 16, 2008 | By objc

This years summit is going to be a great time, early registration ends on Aug. 31. So if you have been putting it off its about that time. Tom Harrington is going to be talking about building your iPhone Fu with two talks and I'll be talking about...

PrEV speaking core softwaresummit iphone location animation gps | iPhone | Wednesday July 09, 2008 | By objc

Software Summit promises to be quite a great time (as always). I will be delivering a couple of iPhone talks (core animation of course, and core location). But there are tons of other great looking talks on web services and such from eBay, Yahoo! and others....

PrEV tutorial flow core iphone coverflow animation screencast cover coreanimation | Core Animation | Tuesday July 08, 2008 | By objc

Episode 5 is live, sorry for the delay. I've been swamped with iPhone work the last week +. Episode 6 should be ready RSN, its the final bits where we add cover flow to the iPhoto photos. It looks really nice :)

PrEV iphone coreanimation osx core mac book animation status | Status | Monday July 07, 2008 | By objc

I have a tech review pass over the chapter on the [REDACTED] chapter and an errata pass as well. That should all be simple stuff. The book also had a title change, now its Core Animation for OSX and iPhone. I'm really excited to be done, and very much looking...

PrEV iphone coreanimation screencast core animation pragprog | Core Animation | Thursday July 03, 2008 | By objc

Erica Sadun did a quick write up of my screencasts here . Thanks Erica!

PrEV core coreanimation writing book animation | Core Animation | Wednesday June 25, 2008 | By objc

Clint Shryock has some very kind words to say about the CA book. It is exceedingly gratifying to have someone get something out of a thing you have labored over so hard for so long. Thanks for posting Clint, you made my day!

PrEV iphone animation development core games | iPhone | Tuesday June 24, 2008 | By objc

So I'm more or less done with bringing 1 of our games (dot game, the only one to get staff pick) native as well as building a 'from scratch' puzzle game. I'm sorta struggling with what to do with that. Since the NDA is still in force can I post screen shots?...

PrEV layer tiled coreanimation animation layers iphone core | Core Animation | Tuesday June 24, 2008 | By objc

After much procrastination I finally got the CA section done on tiled layers. Man what a pain. Not that the tiled layer is hard to work with, I just had a hard time figuring out how to explain the example that I did without miring the reader in detail. I...

PrEV speaking core iphone animation coreanimation | Core Animation | Friday June 20, 2008 | By objc

I am going to be speaking @ iPhoneDevCamp2 about CA on the iPhone. Should be really really cool, now if I can just make time to build the cool app I want to show of in the midst of writing (book & games)... Hope to see you there! Update: I...

PrEV example core animation | Core Animation | Friday June 13, 2008 | By objc

One of the examples I put off until I had to do it was CATiledLayer. Basically the docs were not very complete so I was hoping that by the time I really needed them I'd have better docs. Well the docs never materialized but I had 2 or 3 errata about the lack...

PrEV animation core | Core Animation | Tuesday June 03, 2008 | By objc

I finished it up last night and the gerbils (i.e. Mike Clark ) @ PragProg already turned it into a downloadable movie. You can grab it here . This episode came in a bit long (at 42 minutes) but I could not think of what to delete. The main thrust of...

PrEV core animation status book iphone | Status | Thursday May 29, 2008 | By objc

I have finally finished the iPhone chapter for the book . I've also taken an additional editing pass and finally gotten rid of all the parens at the end of ObjC method names. That was the single most pointed out flaw in the book (not sure if that is good or...

PrEV core osx mac iphone animation | Core Animation | Tuesday May 27, 2008 | By objc

In addition to working madly on getting my iPhone apps done I've also been building some really cool screencasts . I'm really excited about this, its a way to realize what I blogged about way back here . Here is the intro to the series. This is...

PrEV cocoheads speaking book core animation | Status | Tuesday April 08, 2008 | By objc

Tonight I'll be discussing Core Animation at the Trident Cafe with the fine folks @ the Boulder CocoaHeads. If you are in the area would be great to see you! View Larger Map

PrEV core animation update beta book | Status | Wednesday March 12, 2008 | By objc

Well on the way to being done a new beta of the book has just been pushed. Everyone who has bought the book (thanks, BTW!) you can grab an updated copy on your account page here . For everyone else you can grab a copy here . I'm hard at work on the...