Making Accessibility More Accessible, Part 1
iOS Leveling UpTechnology should be accessible to everyone. Apple has worked hard to make it easier to support Accessibility. Here's some tips on how to support...
Is Your Ember App Too Big? Split it up with Ember Engines, Part 3
Front-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpIn the previous two posts on Ember Engines, we started building an Ember "umbrella" application for mounting a couple Ember Engines. In this post,...
Is Your Ember App Too Big? Split it up with Ember Engines, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpIn this post, you will learn to create an Ember Engine in a separate repository and link the engine to the umbrella application.
Funding a Coding Bootcamp: What You Need to Know
Leveling UpFinding time to level up your skills can be hard, but finding the money can be an even bigger roadblock. Here are some of...
Laravel for Rails Devs, Part 1: Hello World
Back-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpIn the last few years, PHP has experienced a bit of a renaissance; the language got some significant upgrades and the community has adopted...
Security Questions Are Just Passwords
Leveling Up“Where were you born?” and “What is your mother's maiden name?” are common security questions, but if you answered honestly, someone can probably get...
Ember.JS and Electron: Build Desktop Apps with Web Technologies
Front-End Full-Stack Web Leveling Up MacIn this blog post, we'll create a desktop file-management app using Electron and Ember.JS. Electron provides the cross-platform development environment, while EmberJS gives...
The Benefits of Learning Multiple Programming Languages
Leveling UpTaking the time to learn a programming language is a huge accomplishment, particularly for those people who are looking to find full-time work as...
Improving Your Object Design with Dependency Inversion
Leveling UpUsually when I hear a conversation about Dependency Inversion, one of the SOLID principles of object-oriented design, a question comes up about its name....
Becoming a Nerd: One Developer’s Journey
Back-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpPhillip interned with Big Nerd Ranch as a backend developer in 2015 and was hired as a permanent employee after the internship. In this...
Machines Learn and You Can Too
Leveling UpIt can be difficult to work up the courage to dig into machine learning. Luckily, many of the ideas are actually quite straightforward when...
Designing and Developing Together
Clients Design Leveling UpIn all areas of the app development world, designers and developers run into the issue of not being able to communicate efficiently. At Big...
