Author Archives: keith

Great deal on great iPhone dev book – Today Only

Posted on January 10, 2009 by keith

http://www.mobileorchard.com/get-beginning-iphone-development-e-book-for-10-today-only/

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 1 Comment

"Dust" for iPhone

Posted on January 6, 2009 by keith

OK, this is still awaiting review, but should hopefully be out any day, so I’m going to start hyping it. http://www.bit-101.com/dust/ My first full iPhone app. Open GL ES 10,000 particles at 60 fps and runs beautifully. $0.99. that’s $0.000099 … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 25 Comments

glRotatef… HELP!

Posted on January 6, 2009 by keith

SOLVED! thanks to Jonathan in the comments below, and Andy Zupko moments before on IM. 🙂 You guys rock. I usually try to share solutions on this blog, but sometimes I just feel dumb and need some help. I’ve searched … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 8 Comments

CoreSWF: AS3 in XCode

Posted on January 5, 2009 by keith

So for the last two weeks, I’ve been exclusively using XCode, doing Objective-C iPhone stuff. Haven’t even opened Flex Builder. Back to work today and back to Flex Builder. My fingers are tripping over themselves trying to figure out shortcuts. … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript | 7 Comments

2008: My year in review.

Posted on December 31, 2008 by keith

For the last few years, I’ve done a year-end post examining the past year and looking forward to the new. 2008 was very good to me. Personally, I lost 36 pounds and for the first time in 8 years dipped … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 8 Comments

iGravityPods progress

Posted on December 30, 2008 by keith

This is going better than I thought. Did a bunch of refactoring last night, and added gravity pods themselves today.

Posted in iPhone | 4 Comments

Gravity Tutorial for iPhone, Part 5

Posted on December 30, 2008 by keith

For the final installment in this series, we’ll add accelerometer support to the ball, allowing you to tilt the device to change the direction of “down”. Note, although you can rotate the device in the iPhone simulator, this does not … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone, Objective C | 28 Comments

iGravityPods Video

Posted on December 29, 2008 by keith

Not the best quality, and for some reason PhotoBooth likes to record mirror images. But you get the idea of where it’s going. Not bad for a couple days.

Posted in iPhone | 9 Comments

iGravityPods

Posted on December 29, 2008 by keith

Not sure what the actual name will be, but I am working on an iPhone / iPod Touch version of Gravity Pods. It’s going pretty well considering I just started yesterday. Here’s a screenshot: It’s quite a challenge creating a … Continue reading →

Posted in iPhone | 6 Comments

25 Line ActionScript contest entries source posted

Posted on December 29, 2008 by keith

http://www.25lines.com/?p=168 Now you have 80-something files of cool effects, inspiration, and horrible coding practices to learn from. 🙂 Next contest starts in a few days.

Posted in ActionScript | 1 Comment