MacBook Air 11" as Dev Machine

I truly got back interior from Seattle, wherever I went to attend and converse next to Voices to facilitate Matter. The VTM people plunk on a horrendous league, as until the end of time, and I'll own more to say around to facilitate in upcoming blog posts.

WWDC Mothership Pilgrimage 2011

Okay, in the same way as revealing many fill with I wasn't departing to organize a visit to the Mothership on the Sunday or WWDC,

Appsterdam

You may well own been consideration a quantity of rumors and jokes around Twitter about something called "Appsterdam".

Bus Trip Update

Just wanted to collapse you all an renew on the means of transportation pilgrimage to Cupertino on June 5th. We had a tremendous fair of relevance. Approximately 300 fill with articulated an relevance,

Empty OpenGL ES Application Xcode 4 Template

Jacques De Schepper sent in an updated version of my old Empty OpenGL ES Application Template, updated to consume Xcode 4's completely revamped templating means. You can download the modern Xcode 4 version of the guide justification now. I haven't had a good fortune yet to test this improbable, but as soon as I look after, I'll furthermore add it to GitHub. Thanks, Jacques!

3D Game and Graphics Engines

One issue to facilitate I comprehend asked around a lot in life is whether you must consume a game or graphics engine as an alternative of learning OpenGL ES.

Pre-WWDC Pilgrimage 2011 Update

If you signed the relevance form, you must own acknowledged an e-mail revealing you how to reserve seats on the pilgrimage buses.

Sold Out

Okay, I'm truly around to head to bed, but wanted to give permission you know to facilitate we've officially sold improbable all four means of transportation trips representing the June 5 pilgrimage.

Pre-WWDC 2011 Pilgrimage Additional Buses

Okay, here's the deal people. We're demanding to discovery improbable from the means of transportation company come again?

Pre-WWDC Schedule Update

Lost during Translation: Harvard Geneticist Now Disowns Scheme To Clone Neanderthal Baby -- Evolution News

The Boston Herald assures us to facilitate the geneticist who yesteryear was advocating a project to clone a Neanderthal baby in piece of information not at all called representing such a issue, nor is he seeking a likely and "adventurous female human" to bear the spawn.

Bus Update

Just to give permission you all know, we're down to eleven residual offered seats on the third and after everything else means of transportation, and they're around equally split amid morning and afternoon. If you missed getting a seat on the chief two buses,

A Few Seats Left

There are a few seats left for the afternoon trip to Cupertino on June 6th. If you're interested, go here.

As I write this, there are less than 15 seats, though, so if you want one, I suggest you hurry.

Thoughts on Unity3D

To the same extent I affirmed in my preceding pole on 3D engines, I'm departing to look after four blog posts giving my judgment on apiece of the four engines to facilitate I looked into using representing a project recently. Those four engines are Unity3D, Sio2, Ogre3D, and Cocos3D. I'm initial with Unity3D, which we selected representing solitary of our contemporary projects.

On Being Excellent to Each Other

Marcus Zarra has a somewhat depressing pole at the moment on the outstanding Cocoa is My Girlfriend blog. It's around the emancipation of The Daily. Because of all the secrecy around The Daily earlier to its endorsed launch, I think not a lot in life of fill with knew Marcus was not truly involved with it, but was in reality leading much of the development effort.

Update on UpdateConf

Just wanted to give permission you know to facilitate I'm speaking next to a further league. I'll be speaking next to the initial UpdateConf in Brighton, UK on September 5th.

Happenings and Prospects

I say sorry representing the comparative shortage of posts now since WWDC. That week in San Francisco until the end of time tends to backlog me pretty severely (I returned from WWDC next to inbox 1138 - and that's in the same way as expenses the return voyage answering e-mails),

Auto-Incrementing Build Numbers for Release Builds in Xcode

I consume the wonderful Test Flight to distribute builds. One issue to facilitate Test Flight is a little picky around is build figures. When you upload a build, it uses the build total to distinguish if you're uploading a replacement or a modern build.

Working for MartianCraft

During argument you missed my tweets earlier this week, MartianCraft is looking to add a a small number of developers.

Online Session Code for Big Objects (Plus a Warning)

During Chapter 9 of extra iPhone Development, we wrote a usual of classes to facilitate mimicked the behavior of GameKit's peer-to-peer connectivity, but representing regular interact contacts (GameKit's single factory with BlueTooth and native interact connections).

Sad Mac

I haven't had much stage representing blogging lately. I own around a half-dozen unfinished blog posts in my queue, but own been too diligent to varnish several of them.

Respect & Shame

It's been fascinating bearing in mind how many fill with own responded to the death of Steve Jobs exactly the way I did. It's beyond doubt amazing how many fill with who not at all met the man feel not truly to facilitate the globe has lost a big cheese major but to facilitate they themselves own lost a alone.

Disappointing

So, like others, I was tempted to put pen to paper a apology of the iPhone 4S in the same way as all the pundits and naysayers came improbable after everything else week calling the iPhone 4S "disappointing". I'm glad I not at all found the stage. To the same extent it turns improbable the iPhone 4s doesn't need everybody to holder up representing it.

Long Live the King

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has an appealing pole at the moment around being a developer representing Apple's ecosystem. We'll leave aside representing promptly the piece of information to facilitate Jeff isn't and has not at all been an Apple developer and is, in piece of information, a strong promoter of Microsoft's developer stack. Despite to facilitate flaw, I typically benefit from recital Coding Horror.

CGAffineTransform Additions

To the same extent you probably know, Apple provides a bunch of functionality representing manipulating objects in 2D universe using CGAffineTransform. Oddly, Apple doesn't provide you with a way to extract the degree, transform, and rotation in sequence from a CGAffineTransform and they don't provide several shearing functionality next to all.

GLKit Examples

I've added three modern projects to my iOS OpenGL ES warehouse on GitHub. They are practically clean examples of how to consume GLKit and GLKBaseEffect. You can discovery them in the GLKit Stuff directory.