Hillegass’ prescription: one week of total Android immersion in a distraction-free oasis amongst the woods in rural Georgia.Įven though I was learning 10 to 12 hours a day and badly jetlagged, the bootcamp felt like a getaway: no interruptions, no phone calls, no emails. Given my crazy daily schedule, there was no other solution but Dr. No matter how hard you try, distractions just keep creeping out of the woodwork and reaching you.Īt Banning Mills, a mountain lion was preying upon the unsuspecting Androids… My current schedule is pretty tight and it seems almost impossible to settle down and devote a few weeks to learn something new. A phone that would make me go bald wasn’t worth my time, but those glasses? Well… Back to Historic Banning Mills I had tried a Nexus 1 several years ago, and it wasn’t for me: the phone had a small gap between the screen and the plastic (yes, it was unapologetically plastic) that would always catch a hair from my head when I answered the phone and inevitably plucked it. On my way back home to Madrid, the idea of developing for Google Glass started to creep into my mind, like an insidious worm. Jean-Luc Picard, trying to the first prototype. And pure, raw nerdiness has an irresistible sex appeal for some people, such as yours truly. The Glass I tried on was obviously a prototype, but a prototype with a tremendous potential and the only truly new device I’ve seen in years. Just like Anakin, my downfall was inevitable. I resisted for days, but finally gave in and asked to try them (not that I was really interested, of course).Īfter looking around to make sure there was no security personnel from Apple in the restaurant, I put them on my face and…that was it. Let’s admit it: Google Glasses do make you look like a dorky Borg… but an extremely nerdy dorky Borg. To add insult to injury, he had the obnoxious habit of entering the restaurant, which is crowded with Apple employees, wearing…you guessed it: Google Glass! I was in constant fear that security would kick us out at any time.ĭo you really think those glasses are appropriate, Mr. We usually had dinner at the Outback Steakhouse right in front of Apple’s HQ in Cupertino. Slightly annoying, but certainly not enough to shake the beliefs of the someone like me, the “truly faithful.”
He was also attending Google I/O during that week, so I was forced to endure hours of drivel and indoctrination about all the “new and cool stuff” Google was releasing. Eduardo was also an iOS developer, but he had recently turned to “The Dark Side” and was doing mostly Android development at that time. After classes, I would meet with a friend of mine who works nearby in Palo Alto. This is the whole story of my “downfall.” Once upon a time at Facebook…Ībout a year ago, I was teaching a Beginning iOS bootcamp at Facebook, in Menlo Park. This caused a lot of consternation on Twitter, as I’m considered a die-hard Objective C and Cocoa fan-in fact, I teach iOS bootcamps for Big Nerd Ranch.Īttending the Android class also cost me more than a few unfollows. I recently attended one of Big Nerd Ranch’s Android bootcamps at Banning Mills.
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