Hello and welcome. I am currently a game developer and Flash/iPhone/.Net/RIA/Web 2.0 engineer with more than 10 years of experience in a wide range of Internet and desktop application areas. Past clients include Orbitz, Sony Pictures, Callaway, Chicago Field Museum, Energy BBDO, Venables Bell & Partners, Conagra Foods, Mekanism, Publicis Groupe, Leo Burnett USA, Saatchi-Saatchi, Kelloggs, Heidelberg, Samsung and other major agencies and organizations.
I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and accomplished work towards a B.S. degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and I attended the University of Iowa and completed a B.S. degree in Computer Science.
Some current areas of interest include: social web applications in C#/.Net or LAMP, OpenGL on the iPhone, Flash AS3 game and physics frameworks, mxmlc, using Flex and FlashDevelop for game development, artificial intelligence in games, Python, and the use/misuse of design patterns.
I am currently located in San Francisco where I enjoy exploring the city on foot and bike while trying to make sense of the weather.
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Big news from the TownHog front. We have recently joined forces with CBS and are now working on launching local deal sites for each of CBS' affiliate cities starting with New York City. Take a look at http://newyork.cbslocal.com and http://offers.cbslocal.com. This combined with our existing affiliation with SFGate via SFGate Daily Deals makes for exciting times. 2010_08_03
Dan Grigsby has recently decided to abandon iPhone development and consequently run Mobile Orchard. What this means is that my weekly "This Week in iPhone and iPad News" column will now be hosted and updated on my blog at http://blog.aribraginsky.com. 2010_04_09
GDC 2010 is just about over. The dedicated iPhone summit was great and I was able to attend a few of the other summit sessions as well (social gaming, indie games, etc.). The IGF and developer's choice awards were great and I met a few familiar faces and quite a few new ones as well. Picked up an AI book from MK publishing (IGDA discount!) and got lots of swag. Feeling very inspired and am looking forward to next year. Here are some pictures and video clips and the new issue of "This Week in iPhone News" will be posted up shortly on Mobile Orchard.. 2010_03_13
This week's announcement of the iPad device by Apple generated so many news articles that a special version of "This Week in iPhone News" has been created just for it. Take a look. 2010_01_29
I will be attending this year's Game Developer's Conference here in San Francisco. I won't be doing the all-access pass this year but instead will be attending only the iPhone Games Summit on March 9th and 10th. 2010_01_24
Version 1.2 of I Crush Your Head is now available for download on the iTunes App Store (bugfixes and usability updates). 2010_01_20
Version 1.1 of I Crush Your Head is now available for download on the iTunes App Store (enhancements and usability updates). Get pinching! 2010_01_08
Version 1.0 of TownHog is now available as an iPhone application on the iTunes App Store. Give it a try today! 2010_01_07
You can now link directly to my resume via http://resume.aribraginsky.com. 2009_11_25
I recently attended the two day iPhone OpenGL programming training class sponsored by Mobile Orchard. Noel Llopis taught the course and it covered everything from 2D to 3D. I highly recommend it.2009_11_19
At Dotblu, I am currently working on designing and developing TownHog, an online deals site for various businesses across the country.2009_11_01
You can now see and possibly follow the iPhone related Twitter users that I'm following with the new lists feature that is being rolled out.2009_10_30
My last gig at DotBlu involved working on the BluBet site, primarily using .Net/C# technologies. BluBet was a social betting site that allowed you to challenge your friends or the general public to bets that you created. It integrated with both Facebook and Twitter and you could also send and reply to bets with your cell phone over SMS. If browsed from a mobile phone, a separate mobile web version of the site loaded. However, this site has since shut down as of 10/09/09.2009_10_09
I'm now writing the weekly "This Week in iPhone News" column for Mobile Orchard. With it I hope to bring both popular and obscure yet important iPhone news to your attention.2009_04_10
I recently attended the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. You can view the content that I gathered online.2009_03_23
Version 1.0 of I Crush Your Head is now available for download on the iTunes App Store. 2009_03_20
I have recently launched the blog for Guidance Is Internal, the site I setup to host the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Flash applications and games I create.2009_03_05
Librarian was just approved for download on the iTunes App Store (03/10/09).2009_03_05
Dynamic list of iPhone resources I'm currently tracking (as seen on Mobile Orchard!)2009_03_05
This work by Ari Braginsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
