Author:
John Shea
Editor’s note: John Shea is a two-time Big Nerd Ranch alum and is the creator of Kondrian, an action game for iPhone and iPad.
Alumni: If you’d like to share your success stories with us, please leave a note in the comments.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
In this Tech Talk, Daniel discusses how the Kickstarter-funded HYREL 3D printer overcomes the problems faced by other printers. He covers traditional manufacturing processes and how 3D printing is changing them. The best part? The HYREL 3D can even print with chocolate.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
To keep doing what you love, you must maintain your own systems—not just the ones you write code for.
In order to concentrate, learn and remember (all of which are important for programmers), you need exercise and a healthy diet. In this talk from Joe Kutner, you’ll learn exercises that will make working at a computer more comfortable, as well as how to change your work habits and develop a plan to stay fit.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
How should you implement search engine optimization tactics for a Ruby on Rails application? Daniel Rice gives a high-level overview of how Ruby developers can improve SEO in their apps.…
Author:
Tasha Schroeder
Ines Sombra, lead data engineer at Engine Yard, talks about getting started with Riak. She discusses its overall architecture, use cases and what you need to know to run Riak in the cloud.
Our next talk is April 12, when Daniel Rice talks search engine optimization and Rails.…
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:
Jon Woodroof
At Highgroove we love to iterate and bias towards action. Our Best Practices and Patterns are not set in stone, in fact they, like the software preferred by our team, are public and open to feedback from anyone. We are constantly looking for the best tools and approaches to staying productive and solving the problems we encounter every day.…
Author:
Jonathan Wallace
The latest version of Ruby comes standard now with Comma Separated Value support built right in via the CSV library written by one of our very own alumni, James Edward Gray II. You might know CSV as the extremely portable format file used for everything from Excel Documents, to Numbers Spreadsheets, to lists of emails, to even generic data files.…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
This week’s Tech Talk was on Visualizing Scaling, and Consistent Hashing techniques for scaling data.
Patrick talked through several visualizations he created in HTML5 to visually explain many common scaling techniques.
If you’ve heard of the techniques and algorithms: “sharding” or “master-slave”, or even “consistent hashing” for distributing data across servers, but never really known how they work, this talk goes through the basics and shows visually how data can be scaled out across multiple servers.…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
Dave’s Tech Talk this week is on security on web applications, focusing on Ruby on Rails applications, and using the static analysis security scanner called Brakeman (brakeman on github).
In this talk, Dave looks at how static security analyzers work, and how we used it to find some very tiny (already fixed within a few minutes of finding) possible security weak-points in an application we built for a client.…