Simon Gladman has been developing desktop enterprise applications for the advertising production and investment banking industries for almost twenty years. He has worked on applications including media booking systems, artwork approvals, time and expenses software and foreign exchange desks. However, in his spare time, his coding takes a more creative direction where his interests include topics such as physics and particle simulations, image processing and novel user interaction patterns. An early champion of Apple's Swift language, Simon's blog, http://flexmonkey.blogspot.co.uk, has become a popular source for articles exploring and experimenting with iOS technology. Simon has published several iOS apps including Nodality, a node based image editing app for iPads.