Working for MartianCraft

In case you missed my tweets earlier this week, MartianCraft is looking to add a few developers. We're looking for a couple of experienced developers, and are also thinking about bringing in one or two entry-level devs without significant experience to be trained up.Initially, the work would be project-based contracting and would start in late August. Conversion to full-time employment is a possibility, but not right away. If you're interested in being considered, send an e-mail with relevant work experience and/or résumé/CV to work@martiancraft.c...

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Posted in: MartianCraft

Auto-Incrementing Build Numbers for Release Builds in Xcode

I use the wonderful Test Flight to distribute builds. One thing that Test Flight is a little picky about is build numbers. When you upload a build, it uses the build number to see if you're uploading a replacement or a new build. It will let you create a new build even if you don't remember to increment the build number, but it's an extra manual step, and then you end up with two builds with the same build number.Because I'm forgetful, I wanted to automated this process. Basically, I wanted to increment the version short string any time we do an Archive and increment the bundle build ID any time we do a Release configuration build, but leave the version numbers alone on Debug builds.Unfortunately, several of our projects are ones that we inherited or took over, so not every project uses the...

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Posted in: Tips,Xcode 4

Happenings and Prospects

I apologize for the relative dearth of posts here since WWDC. That week in San Francisco always tends to backlog me pretty badly (I returned from WWDC at inbox 1138 - and that's after spending the return flight answering e-mails), so I've been pretty much heads down on work-related stuff ever since. I've also, at the same time, been consciously trying to back away from the 12-15 hour days, 7 days a week schedule that I'd fallen into trying to help get MartianCraft off the ground. Those two have conspired to give me very little time for writing lately, but I think things are under control now.I've got my semi-mythical OpenGL ES from the Ground Up 10th installment on skeletal animation nearly finished and hope to have it posted within the next couple of weeks, and it's bit of a doozy. My...

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Posted in: Book project

Update on UpdateConf

Just wanted to let you know that I'm speaking at another conference. I'll be speaking at the inaugural UpdateConf in Brighton, UK on September 5th.As part of the conference, I'm also giving a two-day intensive workshop on OpenGL ES. The workshop assumes no prior experience with graphics program, but will be fairly fast-paced and will cover a lot of ground because there's a lot of new ground to cover. I'll be going over the new GLKit and the incredible new OpenGL debugger as well as the updated OpenGL ES Instruments templates. Not interested in OpenGL ES? There are four other two-day workshops going on with some really awesome instructors. Marcus Zarra is doing a two-day workshop on Core Data, Drew McCormack is doing a workshop on Core Animation, Sarah Parmenter is doing one on iOS UI...

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Posted in: conferences,OpenGL ES