Alasdair Allan

http://twitter.com/aallan

Exeter, England

Scientist, Author, Hacker and Tinkerer

Areas of Expertise:

  • Objective-C
  • iPhone
  • Perl
  • Astronomy
  • Sensors
  • Arduino
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing
Alasdair Allan is the author of  Learning iOS ProgrammingProgramming iOS Sensors, Basic Sensors in iOS, Geolocation in iOS, iOS Sensor Apps and Arduino and Augmented Reality in iOS, all published by O'Reilly Media. He is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events. Notable successes include contributing to the detection of the most distant object yet discovered, a gamma-ray burster at a redshift of 8.2. Alasdair also runs a small technology consulting business writing bespoke software, building open hardware and providing training. He sporadically writes blog posts about things that interest him, or more frequently provides commentary about them in 140 characters or less.

Augmented Reality in iOS Augmented Reality in iOS
by Alasdair Allan
June 2013 (est.)
Print: $19.99

Learning iOS Programming Learning iOS Programming
by Alasdair Allan
Third Edition March 2013
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99

Distributed Network Data Distributed Network Data
by Alasdair Allan , Kipp Bradford
March 2013
Print: $19.99
Ebook: $15.99

Geolocation in iOS Geolocation in iOS
by Alasdair Allan
October 2012
Print: $19.99
Ebook: $12.99

Learning iOS Programming Learning iOS Programming
by Alasdair Allan
Second Edition March 2012
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iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino
by Alasdair Allan
September 2011
Print: $19.99
Ebook: $9.99

Basic Sensors in iOS Basic Sensors in iOS
by Alasdair Allan
July 2011
Print: $19.99
Ebook: $12.99

Learning iPhone Programming Learning iPhone Programming
by Alasdair Allan
March 2010
OUT OF PRINT

An Introduction to iOS Programming An Introduction to iOS Programming
by Alasdair Allan
Second Edition August 2012
Video: $29.99

Getting Started with Arduino and iOS Getting Started with Arduino and iOS
by Alasdair Allan
May 2012
Video: $39.99

Strata Conference Santa Clara 2012: Complete Video Compilation Strata Conference Santa Clara 2012: Complete Video Compilation
March 2012
Video: $399.00

Strata Conference New York 2011: Complete Video Compilation Strata Conference New York 2011: Complete Video Compilation
October 2011
Video: $399.99

Real World Applications Panel: Machine Learning and Decision Support Real World Applications Panel: Machine Learning and Decision Support
by Alasdair Allan , Alon Halevy , Robert Lancaster , Jonathan Seidman
March 2011
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Alasdair Allan on Making use of iPhone and iPad Location Sensors Alasdair Allan on Making use of iPhone and iPad Location Sensors
by Alasdair Allan
August 2010
OUT OF PRINT

Webcast: An Introduction to building mapping apps for the iPhone and iPad
September 28, 2010
The iPhone has quickly become one of the primary interface devices for geographically tagged data, and underlying geo-location on the iPhone and iPad devices is the Core Location framework. The framework is of the most powerful and elegant included...

Webcast: An introduction to building mapping applications for the iPhone and iPad
April 28, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The iPhone has quickly become one of the primary interface devices for geographically tagged data, and underlying geo-location on the iPhone and iPad devices is the Core Location framework. The framework...

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