Jack Herrington
Jack Herrington is an engineer, author, and presenter who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives with his wife, daughter and two adopted dogs. When he's not writing software, books, or articles you can find him cycling, running, or in the pool training for triathlons. You can keep up with Jack's work and his writing at http://jackherrington.com.
Jack Herrington
In this example app Jack Herrington creates a backend service in PHP leveraging a list of local stores contained in a MySQL database, that an iPad application on the front end will connect to. Here's... Read More
In the third and final phase of his light speed tour through iOS game development, Jack Herrington wraps up his Padsteroids game. Here we learn some advanced drawing skills for the asteroids, and... Read More
Jack Herrington continues his light speed tour of iOS game development with phase two of the Padsteroids project. As we add controls for the steering spaceships and firing lasers, you will learn... Read More
Writing games for the iPad is easy and fun. In a series of three articles Jack Herrington takes us on a light speed tour of iOS game development with his sample space game Padsteroids. Strap in... Read More
Jack Herrington takes a deep dive on Interface Builder, the companion to Xcode, which is used to quickly and easily develop interfaces for your iOS apps. He descends through creating the project to... Read More
How will your web application scale? When you reach millions of users, it's likely you'll need to rethink parts of your application's architecture. In this article, Jack gives us a quick tour and... Read More
In this tutorial, Jack demonstrates how to create a small Flex widget to display a set of location-based Flickr photos, and embed it so that it doesn't interfere with your web page content.Read More
Whether you're searching for extra terrestrials or decoding DNA, cross-platform distributed processing has never been easier with Adobe AIR! In this tutorial, Jack shows you how to easily dispatch a... Read More
The emerging OpenSocial standard is a powerful new API for creating exciting new mashups. In this tutorial, Jack shows how to mix Google Maps, Flickr, and OpenSocial using Adobe Flex. Take the quiz... Read More
Ever wanted to do more with your iTunes library? In this tutorial, Jack shows you how you can leverage the Yahoo Music API to create video timelines of your favorite artists—and get your hands... Read More
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