Please find my new blog at:
While this blog didn’t really take off like I wanted it to, the new one will focus specifically around iPhone, Games Development, and my company OniMobi.
If your reading this from a RSS Reader, the RSS feed for the new blog is:
I’ll no longer be checking or posting to this blog, so I’d recommend following me to my new one :)
Posted: November 6th, 2009 under General.
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Soon ™, this blog will be moving to OniMobi, where I will focus my posts on Games Development, and my new business.
So watch this space (if anybody does in fact follow this blog - which seems unlikely)!
Posted: October 4th, 2009 under General.
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Friday, 25 September 2009 to Saturday, 26 September 2009.
At the Imperial College in London.
Check out the website for more info:
http://overtheair.org/
Posted: July 21st, 2009 under Conferences.
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Another wise move by Apple to frustrate and alienate it’s developers. Thanks a lot Apple.
In short you can now only register 100 AdHoc devices per year, not at any one time. Why the hell did they change that? If anything, we’re all begging for more AdHoc versions!!
How on earth can you run a large scale beta test of a game with the current system? Answer: You can’t.
Check out this post for a full explanation:
The rules surrounding adding devices have changed
Posted: July 16th, 2009 under iPhone.
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Jeff LaMarche (who’s blog you should definitely be following), has posted some useful intro tutorials on OpenGL.
You might find them useful if your new to OpenGL and trying to get to grips with it.
Check them out here.
Posted: May 21st, 2009 under OpenGL, iPhone.
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F1 Insider, our latest iPhone app for Formula 1 has just been released!
Check it out: http://www.f1insider.co.uk/download/
Posted: April 8th, 2009 under iPhone.
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We just submitted F1 Insider to Apple, so it should hopefully be available for purchase on the App Store early next week.
F1 Insider brings all the latest information on the 2009 Formula 1™ Season to your finger tips. Follow the F1 Insider team as we go through what looks set to be the most exciting Formula 1™ World Championship to date!
You can find more information at the official website: http://www.f1insider.co.uk
Posted: March 19th, 2009 under General, iPhone.
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We’ve just released Redline, our first iPhone app based on our own IP.
Posted: March 4th, 2009 under iPhone.
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Theres a few gotchas with code signing which I’ve found can result in errors when installing an Ad Hoc application onto a user’s iPhone through iTunes, usually of the sort: “Application Redline was unable to be installed on the iPhone (Mitch iPhone) because it could not be verified”.
This error is really a generic error that says the iPhone could not verify the code signature, and so didn’t complete installing.
Things to double check:
Also, for AdHoc distribution, I’d recommend packaging up the .app as an ipa file. This is better compatability for windows, because a .app file is a just a folder, and it also allows the iTunesArtwork to be displayed.
At Greenius we use a simple script to package up an AdHoc build. Note you should edit the variables at the top for the appname and the build folder. Later I plan to update this so its a bit more flexible and can take the options from the command line. It also expects a iTunesArtwork.png file for the iTunesArtwork, which should be a 512×512 png.
Posted: February 25th, 2009 under iPhone.
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Quick tip if you want a dynamic multi-line UILabel (i.e you don’t know how many lines there will be), just use this:
myLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
Easy!
Posted: January 7th, 2009 under iPhone.
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