My App Design Setup
DesignThe right setup for an interface designer can be the difference between hours of creative flow and hours of fruitless frustration.
A Ten-Gallon Makeover: Big Nerd Ranch’s New Logo
DesignSince 2001, the Big Nerd Ranch logo has featured a nerdy propeller affixed to a 10-gallon hat. This friendly little chap perfectly embodies our...
Big Nerd of the Month: Kathy Thomas
August's Big Nerd of the Month took home the title in a landslide vote. Word around the office is that Project Strategist Kathryn Thomas...
Announcing our Swift and iOS 8 Roadshow
iOSOur first roadshow is bringing one-day classes in Swift and iOS 8 to a city near you.
Data Structure Hack Night at Big Nerd Ranch
Back-End Full-Stack WebEver wonder how Ruby handles Arrays or Hashes? Join our Data Structure Hack Night on Monday, August 25, and re-implement some of the Ruby...
An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Mobile Services
iOS MacMicrosoft Azure, a cloud storage and computing platform, is a one-stop shop for virtual machine hosting, web hosting, machine learning analysis, web-enabled databases, content...
Discover Swift with this One Weird Rubyist!
Back-End Full-Stack Web iOSAt Big Nerd Ranch, we love certain things. We love coffee, we love fitness and we really love technology. When Apple announced Swift, I found...
Locking in Swift: Helping Protect Me from Myself
iOSSwift helps you write code with fewer bugs. But even more intriguing are the possibilities to change "things I have to worry about" in...
When a Sprint Isn’t a Sprint: Running and Design
DesignOn your mark. Get set. Whoa! The act of running and completing a marathon is no small feat. Neither is the process of designing...
Learning Through Teaching
Leveling UpA few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of helping to teach the Big Nerd Ranch Ruby on the Server course with fellow Nerd...
Blurred Lines: Design and Development
DesignHow can designers and developers get better at what they do? They should each learn what the other does. Our iOS and Android Design...
A Lurking Horror in Debugging
iOS Leveling Up Mac…and upon looking into the face of indescribable horror, a bug so unfathomably odd that it shook the foundations of all meager...
