Author Archives: Ben Williams

Using Cocos2D in a UIKit project

By Ben Williams | Published: January 25, 2012

I recently needed to add a “water ripple” effect to a project. Although there is a simple water ...

By Ben Williams | Published: January 11, 2012

As detailed in a previous post, one of my goals for 2011 was to get a better idea ...

By Ben Williams | Published: December 29, 2011

One of my goals at the start of 2011 was to spend 50% of my time on in-house ...

By Ben Williams | Published: December 13, 2011

A few months ago I released an app called Photo Academy. This app aims to help any photographer ...

By Ben Williams | Published: November 2, 2011

For the past 2.5 years, I’ve been working from home as an independent iOS developer. My real love ...

By Ben Williams | Published: October 18, 2011

I’m fortunate enough to live in a part of the world where summer is on it’s way, and ...

By Ben Williams | Published: October 5, 2011

Earlier today, Apple finally revealed their latest hardware, the iPhone 4S. Like most of you, I’d been waiting ...

By Ben Williams | Published: September 20, 2011

I decided late last year that I was going to attend WWDC for the first time in 2011. ...

By Ben Williams | Published: September 6, 2011

One of the first iPhone apps I ever created as an independent developer was PhotoCaddy, a quick reference ...

By Ben Williams | Published: August 27, 2011

Just a little announcement that Apple has been kind enough to feature Photo Academy on the front page ...