A Big Nerd joins the Big Nerd Ranch
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006I am super excited about my newest gig, as an Instructor at the Big Nerd Ranch here in Atlanta. I’ll be teaching a course on Ruby on Rails, a web development framework (and an opinionated development style) that is very near and dear to me.
I was looking back at my previous blog posts on how much I enjoyed teaching and instructing, and it’s clear that I am passionate about sharing knowledge and helping others — and enjoy the challenges of explaining complex concepts in simple, easy-to-understand ways.
The Big Nerd Ranch style of a retreat with intensive, hands-on training has to be the best environment to learn that I’ve come across. As a former corporate instructor, having taught enterprise-grade software products at large Fortune-x00 companies, I know from experience that there are about a billion distractions to “students” on-site (e-mail, meetings, support, phone calls, etc.) that detract from the learning experience, and in some cases can disrupt the entire learning process. I’m excited to be a part of a great team and concept.
p.s. we blogged it on CleanAir.
