Panel: The Path to CTO • April 17, 2018
April’s meetup is up! This one’s super exciting because it will be a group of high profile tech leaders talking about how they got to where they are. Check out the description below! Sign up here The Chief Technology Officer … Continued
Global Diversity CFP Day – NYC • January 15, 2018
Have you always wanted to become a tech conference speaker? Want to make 2018 the year for your first one? Global Diversity CFP (Call for Proposals) Day is a free workshop event, which is targeted at supporting people from underrepresented … Continued
Blogging for Coders Workshop • October 15, 2017
I’m facilitating my blogging workshop for women and nonbinary coders again! Sign up HERE Blogging: it helps the community, improves your programming, demonstrates your expertise, helps you land your next job – what isn’t there to love? By the end of … Continued
Write/Speak/Code 2017 Conference in Portland, OR • August 01, 2017
I’m thrilled to reveal the 2017 Write/Speak/Code conference site! I am so proud of the team and feel honored to have had the opportunity to work with such a lovely, committed, and hard-working group of people. HUGE thank you to … Continued
Call for Volunteers 2016 Write/Speak/Code • May 01, 2016
I wrote about my experience at last year’s conference and why you should volunteer this year! (Spoiler: because it will change your life.) Read it here
Developing Blog Posts Workshop for Women Engineers, with Write/Speak/Code • August 12, 2015
I’m leading a workshop for Write/Speak/Code NYC on Thursday, August 27! Info below. Blogging: it helps the community, improves your programming, demonstrates your expertise, helps you land your next job – what isn’t there to love? By the end of this … Continued
Top 5 Tips for Newbie Programmers • April 09, 2015
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently” – (probably) Henry Ford What an ominous way to start a blog post, talking about failure! But let’s be real: “Understand and accept that you will make mistakes” is the First … Continued
You Don’t Suck at Programming; Programming Sucks • February 10, 2015
I recently spent an extra 40 minutes with a brand-new coder who had made the mistake of copying something from the internet that he didn’t understand, and another well-intentioned person had then helped him to get that nasty, terrible code … Continued
Newbies: Get the Help You Need by Asking the Right Questions • July 31, 2014
When I was first starting out programming, I asked some terrible questions in my search for a solution. My guess is you have too. You might have noticed how terrible the answers are when you ask bad questions. Get the … Continued
Beginning Programming: Active Record in Ruby/Rails • July 27, 2014
The goal of this article is to introduce the concepts behind ActiveRecord and the active record pattern to beginning programmers so that they can go on to successfully complete beginning tutorials without being confused by the terminology, etc. What is … Continued