Author:
Brandy Porter
Editor’s note: Brian Harper, Jeff Heaton and Brandy Porter are hitting the road to teach our mobile design courses in Ukraine, the Netherlands, India and Japan. At each destination, they’ll be sending blog “postcards” with updates.
Today I’m writing to you from a plane somewhere over Romania.…
Author:
Brandy Porter
Editor’s note: Brian Harper, Jeff Heaton and Brandy Porter are hitting the road to teach our mobile design courses in Ukraine, the Netherlands, India and Japan. At each destination, they’ll be sending blog “postcards” with updates.
Pryvit from beautiful Kiev, Ukraine!…
Author:
Jeff Heaton
My interview at Big Nerd Ranch was intense. I was in a room with glass on two sides, and anybody could look in. It quickly became crowded, with eight people in a room that fits four comfortably—and all focus was on me.…
Author:
Brian Stanwyck
In 1960, Eugene Wigner published a paper titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” In it, Wigner discusses one of the thorniest and most fundamental questions in physics: Why does much of (apparently totally abstract) mathematics later end up applying so well to physics?…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
Jeff Heaton teaches the language of typography for developers in our latest Tech Talk.
Our next talk is March 29, on Getting Started with Riak in the Cloud. RSVP or check out our other events at learn.bignerdranch.com.…
Author:
Brian Harper
Three days full of web design best practices, discussions with fellow designers and delicious southern cooking. That was my experience at An Event Apart in Atlanta last week. When the last session ended, all I wanted to do was curl up, hibernate and let my mind and body digest all the ideas and fried chicken I’d gorged on.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
Editor’s note: This post pre-dates the merger of Big Nerd Ranch and Highgroove Studios. Big Nerd Ranch now offers end-to-end solutions that include design.
At Highgroove, we specialize in back-end development, and we’re really good at it. We are not, however, designers.…