Chris Miles

Today I would like to introduce DynamicXray, a UIKit Dynamics runtime visualisation and introspection library for iOS.
Overview
If you have done any work with UIKit Dynamics you may have found that it can be difficult to debug and fine tune the behaviour. UIKit Dynamics is driven by a rigid body physics engine (Box2D in fact) which gives the developer a lot of power, but the...

Recently I worked with the awesomely smart team at Bjango to help them build a new Mac tool. Here it is, Skala Color.
Skala Color is a Mac OS X colour picker plugin. When installed, it sits right beside the built-in colour pickers that everyone is used to like the colour wheel and the crayon selector....

At the last Swipe Conference I presented two talks on OpenGL ES for iOS developers. I have now published these presentation videos for anyone to watch. I hope they might be useful resources for the iOS community.
The first presentation, "Part 1: Learning to draw", was aimed at OpenGL noobs. I introduced the basics of OpenGL programming, rendering triangles, applying colours and lighting, and animating vertices. All using GLKit, which was introduced in iOS 5....

One of my favourite iOS apps is Pocket Weather Australia by Shifty Jelly who are a friendly little development team based in Adelaide. So it was an honour when they approached me to lend them a hand with development of their new version, overhauled and...