Rails Girls ATL: Building ideas
Back-End Full-Stack WebLast weekend, we hosted our second Rails Girls workshop, inviting 50 women to come to our office to learn more about web development through...
Design, Dignity and Doughnuts: My First 3 Months at the Ranch
DesignMy interview at Big Nerd Ranch was intense. I was in a room with glass on two sides, and anybody could look in. It...
Clash of the Coders 2013: Winners Announced
We recently held our second annual Clash of the Coders, a 72-hour app-building marathon where we test our technical prowess and compete for glory....
Railsberry: A Different Kind of Conference
Back-End Conferences Full-Stack WebBig Nerd Ranch recently sent Brian Gardner and me to the Railsberry Conference in Krakow, Poland. Having been to several Rails conferences already, I...
Static Cling
iOS MacI was hanging out on the #macdev IRC channel on Freenode the other day when someone asked a question: “static has different meanings based...
2013 Has Been a Good Year
I started my internship at Big Nerd Ranch in January of this year. By my second week, I had settled into a spot next...
Clash: A Retrospective
Leveling UpEditor’s note: Each spring, Big Nerd Ranch hosts an epic 72-hour app-building competition, suitably named Clash of the Coders. We sharpen our technical skills...
Testing the Android way
AndroidAs a Rails developer, I learned the benefits of a test-driven style, and I never want to go back to the old style of...
Announcing Mobile Game Development
We’re pleased to announce our Beginning iOS Game Development course, led by Rod Strougo. In this course, you’ll build four games in five days,...
The Big Nerd Ranch Way
Editor’s note: John Shea is a two-time Big Nerd Ranch alum and is the creator of Kondrian, an action game for iPhone and iPad....
We Got So Much Power, That's Ridiculous
iOS MacInstruments is a cool tool. There is a lot it can do beyond “simple” things like profiling your application’s execution time or finding...
