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...

PONDHOPPER WILL RETURN TO THE APP STORE TOMORROW WITH A NEW VERSION!! The puzzle game you know and love will be back in the App Store TOMORROW with a new version! PondHopper v. 3.0 is more fun and fresh than the original. New to PondHopper? Keep reading… The biggest improvement in the newest version is easier levels for more satisfying game play. We heard your comments and addressed your concerns about the levels being too difficult....

It’s fairly easy to get the heading of the user as they move in an iPhone app. More difficult however, is how to find the heading between two specific points that the user may or may not be at. In my case, this was in order to let the user pick a specific point, walk away from it, then have the device point the user back towards the point. I decided to tackle the problem using some vector mathematics. So first we’ll have the...

  I’ve just received some exciting news. Ray Wenderlich and Rod Strougo, authors of the upcoming book Learning Cocos2D: A Hands-On Guide to Building iOS Games with Cocos2D, Box2D, and Chipmunk, will be hosting a 2-day workshop titled Cocos2D via Mini Games. If you’ve attended one of our iOS 101 workshops, you know how much information and knowledge Ray shares with you during one of his workshops. You definitely get your...

I’ve worked with a few designers throughout my stuttered career as a developer. Now as I enter my indie mobile development career phase, I find that I rely on designers even more heavily to make my ideas and structures and algorithms become works of art and function. I’ve compiled 5 tips to help designers when working with developers to give you some insight into what I look for when I’m working with a designer. On the...

I posted this post on my new side project “Develop Baltimore” which I’ll briefly describe here but since the original announcement of the class was on this site, I thought the follow up should be here too. Develop Baltimore At a brunch for the Baltimore Cocoa group, we discussed how there really isn’t a way for Baltimore Developers to let people know when their new apps come out. The idea came up to create a blog...