The bicycle book and bootcamp with Aaron Hillegass, pre iPhone days, put me on the path to making shareware for MacOS X. That hobby morphed overnight into an iOS programming career when the platform opened up, which persists to this day. I still proudly drink from my Big Nerd Ranch (now vintage?!) mug and owe more than I can say to Aaron's teachings. It was through those works that programming finally clicked for me. Thank you, Big Nerd Ranch!

(Aaron, if you're reading these; do you recall a vegetarian attending bootcamp about 20 years ago and the cooks didn't know anything about how to prepare vegetarian food?)