Dutch technology blogger embeds with Big Nerd Ranch Europe
Jan David Hanrath, co-founder of “One More Thing,”” a popular blog serving the Dutch Apple community, spent a week at Big Nerd Ranch Europe...
Experimentally Yours
Leveling UpBuilding small prototypes outside of your main code base can let you experiment with new technology and APIs. An interesting question is, where...
HTML5 is feature complete. What's next?
Front-End Full-Stack WebUntil just a few days ago, the term “HTML5” referred only to a draft specification. Now that the HTML5 and Canvas 2D specifications have...
Speaking of Speaking, part 2
Conferences Leveling UpA couple of weeks ago I extolled the virtues of public speaking for tech nerds. Now it’s time to ruminate a bit on actually...
Development and Triathlons—More in Common than You Think
ClientsI’m the Chief Technical Officer at Think Through Math, one of Big Nerd Ranch’s clients. In my spare time (such as it is), I’m...
Intro to Rails Engines
Back-End Full-Stack WebI have recently been hearing quite a bit about people using Rails engines. I was intrigued about how they are used and how they...
Breaking table–model–controller symmetry
Back-End Full-Stack WebA while ago, I hit a lull in my skill advancement as a Rails developer. I had long since learned to think of my...
New Faces at the December Hack Night
Back-End Full-Stack WebThe December edition of Hack Night was held earlier this week. In our final Hack Night of 2012, we invited not only local developers,...
iOS developers: Free resource for learning to develop Windows Store apps
iOSDid you know that Microsoft sold more than 40 million Windows 8 licenses in just one month? Now that’s a big market in need...
You need source code control. Now.
Leveling UpSource code control. What is it? Why would you want to use it? Executive summary: If you're not using source code control, you...
The Future of Ruby: a RubyConf Recap
Back-End Full-Stack WebThere were some great talks at RubyConf this year, covering themes like concurrency, monitoring and architecture, among others. But there were also a number of presentations...
