iOS Game Dev Cookbook

Our latest book is the iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook

Also available via O’Reilly’s Safari, if you have a subscription (a free trial is available!)

Kerbal Player’s Guide

Our new book is out! We worked really hard on this amazing book! Learn about space, astrophysics, and Kerbal Space Program, the best realistic space program simulator!

Soon.

Swift is open source!

… and I’ll have more to say on that topic soon! In the mean time:

Jon and I have written a post on Swift for the O’Reilly Programming blog, it’s the first of three, and it covers why Swift is an interesting language;
I’ll be speaking at the Functional Programming Miniconf, at linux.conf.au 2016, about (you guessed it) functional programming with Swift! (registrations for linux.conf.au 2016 are open until January 29th!)
our new book, Learning Swift, is getting rave reviews, and is nearing final release; you can buy it now in Early Release, and get updates!

More soon!

Learning Swift for Swift 2.0 book

Early Release of our new Swift 2.0 book for OS X, iOS, and watch OS! Grab a Preorder at Amazon or buy the Early Release (with updates) at O’Reilly right now (50% off with code WKIOS9 for this week).

Here we go again…

New books! Next conference!

Hello!

Following our return to Australia after OSCON, I have slept for a bit, and started work on what’s next! We’re hard at work in the lab, where we narrowly missed the snow, on the following…

Books

We’re working on a whole collection of books for O’Reilly Media:

updating Swift Development for the Apple Watch for watchOS 2.0/iOS 9
writing Mobile Game Development with Unity
finishing up The Kerbal Book on Kerbal Space Program
writing a brand new book about programming with Swift 2.0!

Conferences

We head to Melbourne in the next few weeks, to run and speak at the /dev/world/2015 –– tickets are still available! It’s a great iOS and OS X developer conference!

After that we speak at Museums and the Web in Melbourne, in early October, presenting our popular How Do I Game Design? workshop. Then, immediately after, we fly to Amsterdam, to attend OSCON in Amsterdam, where we’re talking about Swift (like we did at OSCON in Portland). We can’t wait!

Games

We’re hard at work on Button Squid and Gnome’s Well That Ends Well, and we’ll have a further update later in the year!

Swift Development with Cocoa

The new book that I co-authored with Jon Manning and Tim Nugent is now available from O’Reilly Media. Swift Development with Cocoa covers programming for OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 using Apple’s new language. It’s getting great reviews, and it was a lot of fun to write.

Thanks to our editor, Rachel Roumeliotis, for continuing to put up with us, as well as everyone else at O’Reilly who helped with the book. And thank you to our fabulous tech reviewers!

You can buy the book at O’Reilly, or Amazon, or at your favourite technical book-selling-place. It can also be read online via Safari.

Learning Cocoa with Objective-C

The newest book (released December 2012) by Jon Manning and I, co-founders of Secret Lab, is currently on sale from O’Reilly! Our book, along with a collection of other great iOS-development books, is available in the Build Successful iOS Apps sale.

You can use the discount code WKPRGS6 or visit http://go.secretlab.co/OELh to get 50% off.