All Posts For: Ranch News
Nov
6
2012
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.…
Oct
11
2012
A “secret Superman†who expertly juggles three major projects while teaching onsite classes across the country. Who is that masked man you ask? Our own October Big Nerd of the Month, Chris Stewart.
This is actually the second appearance Chris has made on the Big Nerd Blog.…
Sep
13
2012
In a room full of unsurprised Nerds, we unveiled the September Big Nerd of the Month this week. I say unsurprised because the vote was overwhelming – nay crushing – and Stacy Moore earned the honor.
As director of finance and HR, Stacy was responsible for the big move to our new Galactic Headquarters, expertly juggling all the logistics that go with building, equipping, furnishing, moving and maintaining of an office teeming with rowdy Nerds.…
Aug
17
2012
Special guest post by LeAnn Boucher, Ranch Public Relations.
It’s been a big week at Big Nerd Ranch: moving into a shiny new building AND crowning our August Big Nerd of the Month.
Without further ado I present your Liege Nerd for the Month of August in the year of our Nerd 2012.…
Jul
30
2012
Aaron Hillegass will be on MacBreak Weekly, Tuesday at 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET.
Also, Jonathan Blocksom appeared on NSBrief last week. If you haven’t checked out his SceneKit in Mountain Lion, be sure to check it out.…
Jul
19
2012
We interrupt the discussion of Notifications to notify you of this special guest post by LeAnn Boucher, Ranch Public Relations.
Alex, Alex, here’s our man, if he can’t do it no one can!
We are proud to honor Alex Silverman as the July Big Nerd of the Month.…
Jun
21
2012
Special guest post by LeAnn Boucher, Ranch Public Relations.
(ordinarily I don’t like being put into the center of attention, but they threatened me with posting something even more embarrassing. que sera sera. ++md)
June 2012 Big Nerd of the Month: Mark Dalrymple
Drumroll please!…
May
17
2012
Special guest post by LeAnn Boucher, Ranch Public Relations.
This fracking blog has been taken over: A conversation with Big Nerd of the Month Chris Aquino
By now you’ve likely heard that Chris Aquino was named the May 2012 Big Nerd of the Month.…
Feb
16
2009
Big Nerd Ranch has a reputation for mind-blowingly excellent Cocoa and iPhone training. A reputation like this is difficult to maintain. In particular, our students expect our instructors to be experienced, friendly, knowledgeable, articulate, and committed.
For the last seven years, I have taught every single Cocoa class that has ever been offered at Big Nerd Ranch.…
Jun
15
2007
Juan Pablo Claude recently taught the Big Nerd Ranch’s new “Django Bootcamp” at the offices of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The engineers in the class created a a blog of their experience.
What is Django? Django is to Python, as Rails is to Ruby.…
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