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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 dotgame iphone riddleracer | iPhone | Thursday July 17, 2008 | By objc

Had the great pleasure of being on the MyMac podcast here . Great fun! About 2/3's of the way through the show I come on and pontificate about how much you should buy Dot Game and Riddle Racer :)

PrEV sales business strategy iphone games | iPhone | Wednesday July 16, 2008 | By objc

Not knowing how to market an iPhone game we are trying having a lite version (iTunes link) of our Riddle Racer game ( iTunes ) with only 4 puzzles (instead of 40). It's already had a lot more activity than the paid version so here's hoping it will...

PrEV iphone game development | iPhone | Monday July 14, 2008 | By objc

I'm totally stoked to say that Dot Game is in the top 50 of games and top 100 of all paid apps on the iPhone store!

PrEV iphone development games | iPhone | Thursday July 10, 2008 | By objc

Hard to believe that its finally here. I am really excited and can hardly believe that I have stuff there! Riddle Racer Dot Game Buy Early, Buy Often :)

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 development iphone waiting beta | Core Animation | Thursday June 26, 2008 | By objc

Get it while its hot..

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 stoked iphone book writing | iPhone | Monday June 16, 2008 | By objc

I'm really excited to announce that I've started work on an iPhone book for the Pragmatic Programmers . With the CA book more or less wrapped up I was getting a little bored being able to sleep more than 6 hrs a night so I signed up for something new. Until...

PrEV iphone wwdc line waiting crazy cult | Core Animation | Monday June 09, 2008 | By objc

So I feel like i'm part of some crazy cult. I was in line this morning @ 4:30 and i'm about 200 folks behind the front. Not bad compared to last year when I got in line @ 5:45 and was about 2500 in line... The line... NDA lifted, please please...

PrEV wwdc iphone apple news osx | Status | Sunday June 08, 2008 | By objc

I'm about to head to the airport. Here is hoping the SDK NDA is lifted as I can't wait to share some of the fun and cool stuff I've been working on. Watch this space...

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 iphone fun game | General | Tuesday May 27, 2008 | By objc

A good friend of mine just launched his iPhone games to the public. Go check his stuff out on the FlipSide5 website. I'm following hard on your footsteps Mike, can't wait to announce my own :)

PrEV iphone game | Core Animation | Monday March 10, 2008 | By objc

My wife just released her 5th iPhone game here . Its a word scramble game that has several different themes and really nice pics in the background. Some of them might take a while to load over Edge (where is 3G anyway?:). If anything is particularly bad...

PrEV coreanimation iphone biz | Core Animation | Saturday March 08, 2008 | By objc

I am totally excited about the iPhone Roadmap . The 'enterprise' level features will get the iPhone in more people's hands in more businesses. More halo effect here we come. I could see this even being part of a push to get Mac's into the enterprise as a unix...