Author:
Tasha Schroeder
We’ve been making headlines lately:
Aaron Hillegass talked to CRN about developing for Windows 8, saying that if you know how to create an iPhone app, you’re halfway to building one for Windows 8….
We’ve got offices in multiple cities in the United States and in Europe.
Author:
LeAnn Boucher
Did you know that Microsoft sold more than 40 million Windows 8 licenses in just one month? Now that’s a big market in need of well-designed apps, and we pride ourselves on being at the intersection of useful and Nerdy know how.…
Author:
LeAnn Boucher
Come for the knowledge, stay for the prize.
Anyone headed to CocoaConf / Raleigh next week (Nov. 29-Dec. 1)? Keep an eye out for us at one of the sessions we’re leading (see below) or at the Friday evening keynote with Aaron Hillegass.…
Author:
LeAnn Boucher
Many of you may have heard that Big Nerd Ranch and Highgroove Studios have merged to become a bigger, badder Big Nerd Ranch. Highgroove Studios’ Charles Brian Quinn, aka CBQ, will serve as CEO, overseeing strategy and day-to-day operations. Aaron Hillegass will be the combined company’s Chief Learning Officer, dedicating more time to his passion for writing, teaching and mentoring Nerds.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
I just open sourced a simple persistence layer for Cocoa and iPhone that uses Tokyo Cabinet. If you are frustrated with Core Data, you might find it useful. Check it out on GitHub.
Here is the Readme:
After a few years of whining that Core Data could have been better, I thought I should write a persistence framework that points in what I think is the right direction.…
Author:
Brian Hardy
As you probably already know, this week marks Apple’s WWDC 2009 Conference in sunny San Francisco, California.
Like all good Apple nerds, several of us from the Big Nerd Ranch will be attending, and we’d love to see you there. Look for Juan Pablo Claude, Joe Conway, Gautam Godse, Brian Hardy, Scott Ritchie and Alex Silverman sporting jaunty cowboy hats wherever they go.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
At Big Nerd Ranch, we follow a pretty minimal style for our slides. It is important to us, however, that our slide shows go in and out of subversion easily. Also, it is important that we can easily generate a book from a collection of slide shows.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
While zipping around town on this beautiful spring day, I noticed that nearly all of the cars were occupied by exactly one person. Why, I wondered, isn’t everyone roaring about on a motorscooter like me? A scooter gets great gas mileage, is a hoot to ride, and I haven’t died on mine even once.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
When I released PagePacker a week ago, I thought it might be handy for a few people. (See the original post if you don’t know what I am talking about) Now that thousands of people (literally) have downloaded it and given me feedback, I’m quickly getting out a new version with:
Support for A4 paper (see the Preferences panel)
AppleScriptability (with a lot of help from Matt Neuburg)
You can now move, copy, and clear pages after you drop them
The catalog appears larger
You can use the up/down arrows to move through the catalog
I’m interested in how people are using PagePacker.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
I often wander around without a computer, so I needed a nice easy way to print important bits into little books of information that I could carry around in my pocket. Chad Adams figured out a brilliant technique of cutting and folding pieces of paper into little books and called it PocketMod.…