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Working at Big Nerd Ranch: An Interview with Aaron Hillegass

InformIT: How did you get the idea to start Big Nerd Ranch? Aaron Hillegass:Big Nerd Ranch started out as a professional services company for Apple technologies -- we did training and consulting on ap... read more

The Rapid Adoption of Kotlin Is Changing Android Projects as We Know Them

As Kotlin's popularity grew it was important to its' creators at JetBrains to choose a handful of companies they trust to teach Kotlin the right way— and Big Nerd Ranch is proud to be one of them. To ... read more

Big Nerd Ranch Android Developer ‘Bootcamp’ Coming in March

If you are, and aren’t afraid to drop some coin on solid training, Big Nerd Ranch is holding an ‘Android Bootcamp’ from March 16th – 20th in Atlanta. The bootcamp will take you through everything Andr... read more

Why Facebook Is Sending Its People to Mobile Coding Camp (And Not Just Engineers)

Facebook has contracted the services of Big ... Nerd Ranch, an 11-year-old outfit responsible for running a week-long, 40-hour crash course in mobile development that any and all Facebook employees ca... read more

White Sox phenom Eloy Jimenez is ready, no matter when he gets called to Chicago

Fittingly, after the first official workout of spring training on Wednesday at Camelback Ranch, Hahn twice was asked the Eloy question ... approach each day as if they have a chance to make the big-le... read more

Big Nerd Ranch Europe is open for Business

The Big Nerd Ranch Europe, operated by Stefanie Höfling, is located in Bonn, Germany, To achieve a similar training experience as the famous bootcamps in Atlanta, the European classes will also be tau... read more

Facebook And Google Bury The Hatchet (Temporarily) To Kill A Core Problem In Gingerbread Dalvik

The turning point was when Facebook hired mobile training house Big Nerd Ranch to put employees through an intensive, 40-hour iOS and Android development crash course. Shaver said “it’s eight hours a ... read more

OpenGL Bootcamp Announced for Europe

Big Nerd Ranch Europe specializes in Mac OS and Unix training. OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a standard specification defining a cross-language cross-platform API for writing applications that pro... read more

Where and how will farmers grow our food in 2040?

But also expect organic production and other alternative practices to continue to grow significantly in response to consumer insistence on knowing what’s in their food, how it was raised, and which sp... read more

Big Nerd Ranch Guide Series

Since 2001, Big Nerd Ranch has brought deep expertise to app development consulting and training. They have been leaders in iOS and Cocoa programming since the beginning, and now offer Android, full-s... read more

How to Add a Splash Screen to a React Native App (iOS and Android)

These instructions are highly influenced by this excellent guide by Big Nerd Ranch. It explains the why behind what we ... Native apps and I’ve also put together a handful of premium training courses ... read more

Twitter Acquires Tech Training Company Marakana, Kicks Off Engineer Education Program

To that end, the company announced that it had acquired Marakana, a San Francisco-based company working on open-source training for engineers interested ... (To be fair, Facebook contracted the servic... read more