Hi. My name is Ben Gotow and this is my portfolio. I'm a software developer, web designer and photographer, and I am currently pursuing a masters in human computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.

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Layers for iPad

May. 25th, 2010
Want to doodle, draw on photos, or paint a masterpiece on your new iPad? Look no further! Layers packs in everything you need to be creative on the go. Layers for iPad offers a balanced set of painting tools completely redesigned for the iPad's large, crisp display. With high-quality brushes, an eyedropper, a smudge tool and an eraser, Layers provides the tools you need to create great art.

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New England Schools
Apr 25, 20120

Automatically generating Objective-C .h files from .m files

Last weekend I participated in Hack Nashville and built a social pixel-art app called 46px. It was a fun project, but our team of four programmers hacking things together over the course of two days made quite a mess. We rushed to finish the app and one of the first things to go was .h/.m file consistency. Now I need to update most of the project's .h files ... More...

Jan 8, 201014

PNG compression in Android… (You have got to be kidding)

Over the last few weeks, I've been learning the Android SDK in an effort to bring Layers to Android devices. It's going pretty well, but every once and a while I run into a truly WTF moment. Tonight I was importing some images from the iPhone version of Layers when I noticed that Android seems to visibly reduce the quality of PNG files at compile time. In images with ... More...

Oct 16, 20092

iPhone Development Tutorial

I gave a presentation within the Engineering school on Friday that gave a brief look at the iPhone platform and Objective-C. The end of the presentation was a quick tutorial in Interface Builder and XCode. You can download the presentation and the tutorial project here: iPhone Development Tutorial iPhoneDevelopmentTutorial.zip If you have any questions, feel free to email me ... More...

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