It’s been a while since I posted on my blog and I wanted to catch everyone up with what I’ve been up to and why I’ve been so quiet. This will be part 1. I have somre more to announce but some of it is not ready yet. Campfire Apps My last post was on August 8th, but the story actually starts in June. My wife left her full time job as an kindergarten teacher to start her own app development company. That’s right, my...

Did you miss the awesome Intro to iPhone Game Programming workshop that Ray Wenderlich and Rod Strougo gave in Atlanta?  If so, here is your opportunity to catch them again in Denver, CO. Rod and Ray literally wrote the book on iPhone Game Programming when they authored Learning Cocos2D: A Hands-On Guide to Building iOS Games with Cocos2D, Box2D, and Chipmunk.   This is your chance to receive live instruction and help from two of the...

Having trouble building location based apps? What about creating custom maps for your apps? I’m pleased to announce that I will be teaching two new workshops for developers covering the CoreLocaiton and MapKit frameworks. These workshops will be online so anyone can attend! I’ve written a few tutorials on this site that discussed customizing MapKit. These tutorials were sometimes difficult to explain in text and the comments...

I’ve returned home after a very fun filled iPhone Game Programming workshop. The workshop was taught by Ray Wenderlich and Rod Strougo. These guys definitely knew what they were talking about, it was almost like they wrote the book about Cocos2D (the framework used for many popular iPhone games). Oh wait, they did write the book, Learning Cocos2D: A Hands-On Guide to Building iOS Games with Cocos2D, Box2D, and Chipmunk. This much...

My latest app has been approved and is now available for sale.  Pro vs. Con is an app to help you make informed (or fun) decisions.  The app is fun to use and the interface, designed by Baltimore local John Reichenberg, models an old boxing/wrestling poster.  Enter your question, then add arguments either for it (Pro) or against it (Con).  Click the review button and you get a thumb vote of whether you should proceed or not.  Try it...