Author:
Tasha Schroeder
Last weekend, we hosted our second Rails Girls workshop, inviting 50 women to come to our office to learn more about web development through the lens of Ruby on Rails.
There were balloons.
And there was coffee.
But mostly, what we found was a group of smart, talented women.…
Author:
Mark Dalrymple
Just got back from the DC area, where some fellow Ranchers and I went to CocoaConf. If you’re not familiar with CocoaConf, it’s a traveling technical conference for Mac and iOS developers. I like to call it a peripatetic conference, where Dave Klein (who runs the conference) travels around with his family to different cities and puts on a great conference.…
Author:
Laura Cassell
It was a pretty big adventure for me to attend PyCon, flying across the country to a conference I’d never attended before so I could meet people I only knew via some mailing lists and Twitter. It was a little nerve-wracking at first, but once I got to California and started mingling with people, the experience became amazing.…
Author:
Zac Stewart
We’re proud to announce that we’re hosting the Atlanta chapter of NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge. Space Apps is a chance for developers, designers, engineers, artists and tinkerers to team up and work on some of the exciting challenges published by NASA.…
Author:
Steven Vandeweghe
Editor’s note: Steven Vandeweghe attended one of our first bootcamps, and has since developed 10 apps and founded his own company. If you would like to share your success story, let us know in the comments below.
Back in 2008, I attended Big Nerd Ranch’s Objective-C and Cocoa bootcamp, and today I’m a full-time indie developer.…
Author:
Scott C. Smith
Editor’s note: In just six months, Scott Smith went from Big Nerd Ranch student to developing TapAMap, now available for iPhone and iPad.
TapAMap feeds your sense of curiosity and encourages exploration. Whether it’s a place you’ve been to a hundred times before or one that’s entirely new to you, TapAMap helps you learn new things about your surroundings, providing you with a wealth of information to discover.…
Author:
Jim Wrubel
I’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 a long-course triathlete and marathoner. We recently partnered with Big Nerd Ranch to rebuild our core e-learning platform.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
The December edition of Hack Night was held earlier this week. In our final Hack Night of 2012, we invited not only local developers, but the women we met when hosting Rails Girls ATL.
Here’s a quick rundown of the great things people worked on:
Patrick Van Stee developed an iOS (Cocoa) app for code reviewing that interfaces with GitHub
Jasmine Lawrence showed off her work on the Ruby on Rails app she started at Rails Girls
Jonathan Wallace honed his skills working on Trollify, a Mustachify-like app that adds troll hair to images
The Body Boss team showed off some new features on relative ranking (mathematically comparing athletes “relatively”) in Ruby
Kristin Marsicano learned more about an authorization plugin for Ruby on Rails
Jacob Robertson got tons of laughs for his globalization of his “What game should we play?” app
Hack Nights give us the chance to meet others in our community and sharpen our skills. …
Author:
Mark Dalrymple
I’m becoming a conference junkie.
Conferences are fun, and there are a lot of national and regional conferences that cover all sorts of topics. CodeMash, No Fluff Just Stuff, Pittsburgh TechFest, and so on. Even in the Mac and iOS realm, there’s 360|iDev, SecondConf, NSConference, MacTech, Çingleton, CocoaConf, and of course Apple’s WWDC.…
Author:
Don Pottinger
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in #blackhack, a hackathon held in Atlanta for the black tech community. Hackathons are a great time, and they also bring together developers, designers and startup entrepreneurs from the community.