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What’s our Vector, Victor?

Design iOS

iOS 8 and Xcode 6 have brought about the ability to use vector assets in your applications. Unfortunately, Xcode 6 doesn’t fully support vector...

Ashley Putnam

Nov 12, 2014

All You Need to Know About Android Material

Android Design

Lollipop, as we’ve mentioned before, is the largest update to Android in years. Material, Google’s new design language, is at the forefront of those...

Jeff Heaton

Nov 6, 2014

2014 Global Day of Code Retreat

Back-End Full-Stack Web

I’m excited to announce that for the third year running, Big Nerd Ranch is hosting the Global Day of Code Retreat at our Intergalactic...

Kylie Stradley

Nov 4, 2014

Power up with our Swift and iOS 8 Roadshow

iOS

Are you in Chicago or Austin? Do you want to get up to speed with Swift and iOS 8? We can give you a...

Step Christopher

Oct 27, 2014

Why We Teach Rack in our Ruby on the Server Bootcamp

Back-End Full-Stack Web

When I teach our web services class Ruby on the Server, a question I occasionally get from students is why we spend half of the...

Zac Stewart

Oct 23, 2014

Introduction to Gradle

Android

As Android Studio moves closer to release, more and more projects are being moved over to this new IDE. One major stumbling block people often...

Brian Gardner

Oct 21, 2014

Real Talk About Lollipops

Android

Android 5.0 Lollipop arrived last Thursday, with much hoopla. Unquestionably, Lollipop is the most significant Android release since Android 3.0 Honeycomb over three and...

Bill Phillips

Oct 20, 2014

New in Core Data and iOS 8: Asynchronous Fetching

iOS

Using Core Data in a multi-threaded environment has always required a deep understanding of the framework and a healthy dose of patience. Asynchronous fetching...

Robert Edwards

Oct 16, 2014