Ben Dodson
Freelance iPhone & iPad Developer
I am a UK-based freelance iOS Developer and consultant with a wealth of experience with both big brands and small businesses. I have published a number of my own apps, including Highlights which was recently featured by Apple as an iPad App of the Week and part of the Best of 2011 Rewind. As well as iPhone and iPad development, I also work as a PHP developer and web consultant along with OS X and Android app development. I maintain a weblog about my work and interests and you can find out more about me, my personal projects, and my work on this site. Please feel free to contact me for more information about me or my services.
Latest Apps
WallaBee WallaBee is the ultimate collectibles game for your iPhone. The aim of the game is to complete sets by collecting items in a variety of ways. Each item and set is uniquely numbered so you'll need to be quick if you want to beat your friends to the lowest numbers!
HighlightsHighlights uses data from popular check-in services Gowalla and Foursquare and then pushes it through a custom ranking engine to work out the very best places around the world. A Universal application for iPhone and iPad. Recently featured by Apple as iPad App of the Week.
Latest Posts
Projects
- WikiLocation I spent a long time trying to find an API for geocoded Wikipedia articles before giving up and writing my own. Wikilocation is now a major API giving developers access to Wikipedia via lat/lon, Gowalla Spot, Foursquare Venue, or Yahoo! WOEID.
- Tube Updates Whilst practicing how to write screen-scrapers in PHP, I wrote a basic RSS feed that compiled all changes to the status of London Underground lines. This has now matured into a full API giving developers historical access to all London Underground status changes since January 2009!