This Week in iPhone News - November 27/2009

The latest installment of iPhone news is now up, if a few days late :)

IRC

Use IRC? I created a new channel #aribraginsky on irc.freenode.net (port 6667) where people can hang out and discuss things with me in real-time. For now, not much will be going on but I did setup Github to push out commit digest info into the channel.

I don't promise to be there 100% of the time, but I'm almost always at a terminal that is connected to IRC.

Stop by and say hi!

Unfamiliar with IRC? IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and was created in the late 1980s as a way for people to communicate in real-time over the Internet. There are various ways to connect but the easiest would be via the web using http://mibbit.com.

Github

I recently created a new repository on Github to hold my Flash prototypes.

For now, you can download and play with a simple StarField 3D animation I created recently. A demo is also available.

This Week in iPhone News - November 20/2009

A bunch of interesting stuff happened this week in the iPhone world. Take a look and check back here every week for the latest in iPhone and iPod Touch news.

The Dark Side

I'm finally getting around to setting the color schemes for the various IDEs that I use to a more darker color to help save my eyes.

There are many different resources that cover the IDE color scheme topic:

• http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioProgrammerThemesGallery.aspx
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000682.html
  

The current schemes I've decided on using include:

• FlashDevelop: "Dark Theme Latcho" http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2860&start=17
  
• Xcode: "Midnight" (built-in)
  
• Visual Studio 2008: "The Dark Side" http://weblogs.asp.net/infinitiesloop/archive/2006/08/06/Join-the-Dark-Side-of-Visual-Studio.aspx
  

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This Week in iPhone News - November 13/2009

It's that time again to take a look at this week's iPhone news!

Some updates...

Lately I have been working more with C# and .Net related projects as part of my day job with Dotblu, developers of http://dotblu.com, http://blubet.com, and most recently http://townhog.com.

However, as I am still very interested in both game and mobile development, I am continuing to research and develop projects using Flash/AS3 and iPhone SDK technologies.

I find that once you have mastered a handful of programming languages, SDKs, and other technologies, what it really comes down to is what interests you the most. It takes constant internal motivation to go from simply building something to really creating something that will not only last but will also hopefully resonate with other people.

To this end, in order to help focus my free time, I plan on posting more frequently on the topics of Flash/AS3 and iPhone development. Also, while Guidance Is Internal is currently my home for my iPhone projects, I plan on adding Flash projects as well in the near future. You can also view past samples of my work via my portfolio at http://aribraginsky.com/portfolio. More day to day updates will also be posted on my landing page at http://aribraginsky.com as well as here.

I will be attending the iPhone OpenGL workshop hosted by Noel Llopis courtesy of Mobile Orchard next Thursday, November 19th and Friday, November 20th. I plan on posting a review of what I expect to be a very informative event.

In addition, I am researching various 3rd party Flash/AS3 physics, 3D, and game frameworks and plan on writing reviews as I see fit.

Thanks,
Ari Braginsky

This Week in iPhone News - November 6/2009

I have been recovering from a really bad cold since last week, so the latest "This Week in iPhone News" article has been created by Dan Grigsby. Thanks Dan!