Applying Agile Principles to Training Development
TrainingI’ve been fortunate to lead a number of training development engagements, and it’s one of the things I love about training. It’s creating something...
About Your Credly Big Nerd Ranch Badge
TrainingWe are committed to providing you with the tools necessary to achieve your professional goals and we understand that communicating your credentials in an...
Software Maintainability in New Technologies
Leveling UpEvery decade at the longest, the software development industry undergoes significant technological shifts, and these shifts make it difficult to keep delivering maintainable software....
Navigation in SwiftUI 4: NavigationView, NavigationLink, NavigationStack, and NavigationSplitView
iOS SwiftUISwiftUI has changed a great many things about how developers create applications for iOS, and not just in the way we lay out our...
Using Material Symbols Icons on Android
As Google begins to roll out more support for Material You, it’s time to start thinking about leveraging the updated design system in your Android...
Don’t Eliminate Human Work. Enable It.
Digital Product Development LeadershipCompanies should focus on enabling human work through technology rather than on eliminating human work.
Why the Usage of Instrumentation Within Monitoring Tools Should be Implemented in Your Next Web Project
Back-EndWhen designing a web application, a strategy that has often been used is to use a monitoring tool such as Grafana or Datadog. There...
Which .NET Design Pattern is Best For Your Next Project
Back-End DesignThere are several design patterns used these days in the .NET ecosystem. What are they? What are the benefits and drawbacks of each pattern?...
Coming soon: Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Fifth Edition
Android Ranch NewsThe last edition of Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide was released in October 2019. A lot has changed since then. To help...
The Importance of Project (Not Sprint!) Retrospectives
Project StrategyAs a product professional, it’s likely you’ve been a part of 10s if not 100s of sprint retrospectives (retros), but have you ever participated...
Top Five Things I Learned at SRECon22 Americas
Back-End Leveling UpAs a full-stack web developer, I attended SRECon to expand my thinking about the reliability and observability of the services I develop. Here are...
How will you address the talent shortage in your digital organization? (Hint: recruiting alone won’t get you there.)
TrainingThe Great Resignation and the challenge for digital organizations We have seen unprecedented movement in the US job market in the past six months,...
