Strangeloop 2015
This year, I was fortunate to get a ticket to the Strangeloop conference in St. Louis, Missouri. This was my second time going. My first time was 2013, and I Read More …
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Roy Clay Sr. Web Development and Entrepreneurship
A couple months ago, I saw a couple of my friends tweet about the graduation of the first cohort of the Roy Clay Sr. Web Development and Entrepreneurship workshop. The Read More …
Software Carpentry in Hawaii
I got to go to Hawaii to teach a Software Carpentry class! Hawaii. How cool is that?! Apparently, three other people declined to go to Hawaii, and I got asked Read More …
Assumptions
The company I work at just got acquired by a bigger company earlier this month. As a result, we had a big celebration party at a restaurant nearby. I was Read More …
Google I/O
I was super lucky to get a ticket to Google I/O through the Women Techmakers group at Google. Natalie Villalobos and the Women Techmakers team did a phenomenal job of Read More …
Paired programming is awesome! Paired programming sucks!
Paired programming: an agile software development technique in which two programmers work as a pair together on one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer, pointer Read More …
A talk, a ticket, and unexpected trust
A talk I gave a talk on my post From babies to software development: A quest to afford all the cupcakes. It was so nerve wracking to talk about something Read More …
Continuous Improvement: Work
Preface: Asynchrony (my current workplace) started a beta test of their advocacy program last fall. The advocacy program is “a program in which an employee guides a colleague in career Read More …
WWDC recap
Monday: Got in line a little after 3:30AM for the keynote with my friend James. There were a couple hundred people in line in front of us. After awkwardly sleeping Read More …
WWDC ticket lottery is a good thing
Disclaimer: I was lucky enough to get a ticket to go to WWDC this year. I think that I would have the same opinion if I did not get a Read More …