Hi all! Just a note to say that if you’re fortunate enough to be attending the awesome /dev/world/2010 then you should stop by and hear some of us speak! Jon and Paris, as well as a few other friends and colleagues of, and at, Secret Lab are presenting the following talks: Failure Is Not An [...]
Secret Lab is very proud to announce that we’re supporting the fantastic OZCHI conference this year! We’ll be making an iPhone app for the conference, hope to see you there! Don’t know what OZCHI is? Well… OZCHI is Australia’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction and CHISIG’s (www.chisig.org) annual non-profit conference. [...]
So, what’s happening for the rest of 2010? Jon and I are hard at work wrapping up the author reviews (the final stage of proof reading) for our book, iPhone and iPad Game Development for Dummies – it’s so close to being done and that we can practically taste the day off that we’ll get! [...]
Hi everyone! After a busy month of teaching iPhone, iPad and Game Development and Design in Hobart, Brisbane and Melbourne, Jon and I are back in San Francisco/Silicon Valley to catch up with our clients here, as well as attend Apple’s annual developer love-in, WWDC 2010. If anyone else is in the area and would [...]
Please note that all these workshops have now passed! It’s time for another update on our very-near-future training and workshops! Jon Manning and I, the Secret Lab founders, will be the instructors for all these workshops. ACS Tasmania iPhone and iPad App Development Workshop 10th, 11th and 12th May 2010, in central Hobart (Tasmania, Australia) [...]
Well, this is interesting. iPhone OS includes a number of very exciting features, and we can’t wait to start playing with them. If you want an iPhone or iPad application that takes advantage of the new features in the iPhone, there’s never been a better time to get in touch.
Looks like there’s a rather nasty compatibility issue in iWork for iPad. When you export a PDF from Pages and try and open it up in Adobe Reader on a PC, you get this: What’s happening is that iWork’s PDF generation appears to be embedding fonts that Adobe Reader doesn’t know how to parse, and [...]
In which Secret Lab waits for an iPad and learns secrets from Scott Forstall The iPad has had some interesting effects on the geek community at large. The majority of us love it, and a rather vocal minority hate it. They hate it for a variety of reasons – some because of a perceived lack [...]
We have our iPads. After queuing at the Palo Alto Apple Store for many, many hours – we now have them! Let the games begin! (Oh, and we got interview for CBS about our book, iPhone and iPad Game Development for Dummies!) See a little more about iPad Day on Paris’ blog: http://bit.ly/dgYPpR
Want to meet up to talk about your projects? Want to throw some ideas around with us? Check out our calendar, and then contact us to arrange a meeting. We’re making the trip to Melbourne and Brisbane soon, and we’re available to talk! Any day that doesn’t explicitly say otherwise means we’re in Hobart, and [...]