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...

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....

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...

One of the hardest parts of development for me is staring at a blank page. Sometimes I dive right into code and it’s always a mistake because having a design doc or a flow chart helps you organize your thoughts and ideas and also provides a workflow for you to focus with. You can say, “ok, today I’m going to work on this page” versus staring at your code and trying to figure out what to do next. The tool I’m...

In my last MapKit post, I told you how to create custom polygon overlays for your maps.  Now we are going to add to that project and create custom Parking lot icons to place over our polygon shapes so people know what they are. If you want to follow along, make sure you download the project file from that tutorial first: Download here. The first thing we’ll do is create a new class that conforms to the MKAnnotation protocol.  To do...