Blogs from the Ranch

Providing Medical Care—with an iPhone App

Jamie Daniel has attended not one, but three Big Nerd Ranch bootcamps. And he’s putting his knowledge to good use: Jamie is collaborating with...

Yet Another Form of Code Review

A couple of weeks ago Jay Hayes penned Code Review in Four Steps, about the way many teams at the Ranch approach code review.

Building Animations with the android.transition Framework, Part 1

With KitKat, Google brought a number of welcome additions to Android. Today, we’ll focus on one of them, the android.transition framework.

Taking Risks: How I became a Big Nerd Ranch Intern

Live and Learn: What's Your Learning Style?

Big Nerd of the Month: Chris Donnelly

Happy Nerd Year! In this joyful new year of nerdiness, we’re honoring our January Big Nerd of the Month, Chris Donnelly. Chris is still...

The Universal Troubleshooting Process

Last week I walked through finding and fixing My Favorite Bug. Observant readers may have noticed a multi-step process outlined by some <H3>...

Code Review in Four Steps

When I started at Big Nerd Ranch, I was starved for code review. I had received very few deep, insightful comments on the code I had...

Leading the Herd: 2013 at the Ranch

For Big Nerd Ranch, the last year was full of teaching, developing apps and learning from one another. We published books, added courses and—well, we’ll...

Image Optimization with Adobe Fireworks

Large, full-screen photos seem to be everywhere on the web. But while photos are getting bigger, so are file sizes. Image optimization with Adobe...

“My Very Nerdy Wishlist” contest winners

The holidays have come to an end, but we can’t finish out the season without announcing the winners of our “My Very Nerdy Wish...

My Favorite Bug

At the end of last year’s storytelling session I mentioned that my favorite story is “Two programmers fixing a show-stopper bug over 24 hours,...