Author Archives: keith

MVC on the iPhone: The Model

Posted on February 19, 2009 by keith

CocoaTouch is built from the ground up with an MVC paradigm in mind. in most templates, views and view controllers are built for you. UIView and UIViewController are core classes. In many cases you use UIView as is, adding UI … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 20 Comments

ActionScript Hero Interview with ME.

Posted on February 12, 2009 by keith

I had the honor of being interviewed live on the Internet by Pablo Parrado, AKA ActionScript Hero this afternoon. If you weren’t able to view the live session, and just can’t get enough of me… first, seek help. Then, if … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Conferences, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C | 2 Comments

BIT-101 != Flash ???

Posted on February 12, 2009 by keith

I’ve had a few commenters here bring up the fact that I’m not blogging so much about Flash these days. And it’s true. At the end of December last year I started learning Objective-C for iPhone development, and now I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, General, iPhone, Objective C | 22 Comments

Taking the Plunge: Learning OpenGL for Real

Posted on February 11, 2009 by keith

When I started iPhone development, it didn’t take very long to realize that if you are doing any kind of complex drawing, and by complex I mean more than a dozen shapes moving around at the same time, you need … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 23 Comments

PureMVC for Objective-C: Not quite sure I get it.

Posted on February 8, 2009 by keith

I just noticed that a port of the (originally) AS3 PureMVC fraemwork has been done for Objective-C: http://puremvc.org/content/view/121/1/ Now, I’m not trying to knock PureMVC. I’ve never used it. I’ve heard good things and bad things about it. But I … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 15 Comments

iFly – new iPhone game by Infrared5

Posted on February 7, 2009 by keith

iPhone app and game programming is taking the Flash community by storm. The latest entry is iFly, a new game by my company, Infrared5. This was mostly coded up by John Grden, though most of the company had some hand … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone | 8 Comments

Flash on iPhone? YES! no… wait… NO! …um… wait… MAYBE!

Posted on February 2, 2009 by keith

I don’t want to feed into the hype, but this just cracks me up. Any time anyone from Adobe mentions the iPhone, the tech world, in particular the Flash community, goes wild. The latest mention of it by Adobe CEO … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone | 20 Comments

Gravity Pods for iPhone progress

Posted on February 1, 2009 by keith

It’s coming along… Here’s what you see at the start of the level: The GO! button shoots. The angle of the gun is in the bottom left corner. Target is the purple thing on the right. There are a few … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone | 3 Comments

Tough Audience.

Posted on January 31, 2009 by keith

1. I released a free game on the iTunes app store called “Falling Balls”. 2. It somehow, inexplicably, rose to #1. 3. I realized I could put ads in a game. So I added a few features and put in … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone | 29 Comments

iAttractor Review / Video

Posted on January 31, 2009 by keith

Nice review of iAttractor over at creativeapplications.net With this video:

Posted in iPhone | 1 Comment