Of course, by “the big day,” I do not mean I’m getting married or having a baby. I’m going to the Big Nerd Ranch!

Tomorrow I’m off to Banning Mills in Whitesburg, Georgia to attend Beginning iPhone Bootcamp. I will be locked away in the middle of the woods for a week, chin-deep in Objective-C code and iPhone software development. The image on the left is a view from one of their cabins. It’s really unlike the development environment I’m used to! It will be nice to be learning to code while surrounded by beauty, peacefulness, and other geeks.

I’m pretty pumped about the trip. In theory, I’ll be leaving as an iPhone programming newbie and coming home ready to develop iPhone apps from beginning to end. When Brave New Media releases the first iPhone app that makes a few hundred thousand dollars, I promise to get a top hat and cane and pretend I’m the Monopoly man. I’ll even post pictures.

Today I need to finish prepping the work laptop for iPhone development, clean off my incredibly chaotic desk, and then go home to finish packing. I’ll be back with more tomorrow!

Just a reminder: You can follow my posts on the Big Nerd Ranch trip here at Aliso the Geek, or follow them at the Brave New Media blog.