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...
Writing Android Programming, The 3rd Edition
AndroidWhenever we start a new edition of the Android book, our first question is what you would expect—what new things do we want to...
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...
The Top Big Nerd Blog Posts of 2016
This year, our Nerds really outdid themselves with their blog posts. We’ve had a lot of content to write about—Android Nougat, Swift 3, iOS...
Composing Elixir Functions
Back-End Full-Stack WebFunction composition is a technique used to build complex functions out of simpler ones. Elixir does not provide a mechanism for composing two functions...
Building User Interfaces with ConstraintLayout
AndroidWe (/blog/constraintlayout-vs-auto-layout-how-do-they-compare/) in a previous post and compared it to Apple's Auto Layout. Since then, ConstraintLayout has gone from alpha to...
Keeping the Conversation Moving During a Competitive Analysis
Clients DesignA few weeks ago, I was planning a design discovery for a client. When we do discovery, we collect and distill necessary information about...
Big Nerd Ranch Chosen as a Top Coding Bootcamp Provider
ClientsBig Nerd Ranch has been chosen as one of the top software training providers in the world by Training Industry.
JavaScript, make me a Triple Function Sandwich
Front-End Full-Stack WebSince JavaScript is unrelated to Java, many OOP patterns are not idiomatic to JavaScript. So how do you solve common OOP-like problems? It might...
Server-Side Swift with Vapor
iOSSwift on the server is an exciting application of the language. In this post, we'll take a look at a popular framework to get...
