I’m back! I’m forcing myself to blog on a regular schedule. I’m also starting a PhD progress blog to document my final year-ish on my PhD work at UTAS.

Expect more tomorrow,

Paris

Upcoming Speaking Gigs

• “Location is the innovation, not check in” (session) at NordicGame 2011 in Malmo, Sweden (May)
• “iOS: Staying open in a closed world” (session) at OSCON 2011 in Portland, Oregon, USA (July)
• “Android for people who hate phones” (workshop) at OSCON 2011 in Portland, Oregon, USA (July)
• “Gamification sucks” (session) at UX Australia 2011 in Sydney, NSW, Australia (August)

Come see me speak!

First, our first book is almost upon the world! Rejoice!

Also, I have joined the masses that have a Tumblr account – you can find it at tumblelog.paris.id.au – I will be posting random stuff to it far more often than I post here, and I will be attempting to relegate this blog to ‘serious’ stuff. Onwards!

Pure awesome.

The joys of something anyone can add to or edit, I guess!

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! We’re also working hard on a really cool article for a pretty prominent technology – stay tuned!

We’ll be starting another awesome book project when the first one is finished – it’s going to be an amazing one, we promise you’ll love it!

As far as client work goes, Secret Lab is working on some amazing games for some very cool Australia, American and Canadian clients – you’ll start hearing more in the next few weeks as the wraps come off the various projects. We’re, literally as I write this, putting the finishing touches on some amazing fitness-based iPhone apps for an innovative new Tasmanian company – we think you’ll like what you see! And there’s so much more to come… stay tuned! Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want us to build an awesome app or game for you.

We’ll be speaking at, and attending, a bunch of conferences in the next few weeks and months (and years) – so please come and say hello if you happen to run into us! In the short term, we’ll be at (more to come):

• /dev/world/2010 in Melbourne, Australia – late-September 2010
• Unite 2010 in Montreal, Canada – mid-November 2010
• OZCHI 2010 in Brisbane, Australia – late-November 2010
• CreateWorld 2010 in Brisbane, Australia – early-December 2010
• Interaction 11 in Boulder, USA – mid-February 2011

We’re also running, or creating the material for, a bunch of awesome training workshops! Just finished was Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane, Sydney and Mountain View (USA) – soon is New York City, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Montreal, and many others! Check out the awesome feedback we got from some of the last few iPhone & iPad SDK workshops:

It’s not too late to register for the New York City iPhone Boot Camp either: 13th to 15th August, in New York City – using material by Jon and I!

That’s all for now!

We were finally let in at 9AM, after meeting Robert Scoble, Scott Forstall, some venture capitalists, the Russian kid who invented Charoulette, an awesome Indian limousine driver and many other awesome people, and were greeted by the Apple Store employees being fanatical -

More photos are on my Flickr page: http://bit.ly/b1AVek
Answering questions on MacTalk Forums: http://bit.ly/c4K9vm

Also: we just go back from GDC 2010 in San Francisco. A fantastic time! More to come soon. In the mean-time, you can read more about what I’m up to in the Secret Lab Blog.