Girl Develop It San Francisco I was so excited when I saw that Datastax was offering a few free passes to the Cassandra Summit for Girl Develop It San Francisco members. Shortly after I received the announcement in an email, I sent a request for a ticket. I was thrilled when I received a ticket.... Continue Reading →

BoxWorks Hackathon Three of us arrived at Moscone in the morning. One of our teammates had to work and joined us in the afternoon. The room for the hackathon was small and it was full. So, we skipped the pitchfest in search of a comfortable spot to work. We found a quiet corner, rolled in a... Continue Reading →

Today, we (me + 3 gals from Hackbright) planned our app for the Box Hackathon. The rules allow participants to prepare and do limited coding in advance. After our initial discussions, I realized we would have two main areas of concern: (1) data model; and (2) working with the Box API. One of my teammates... Continue Reading →

SF Women Who Code JavaScript Study Group Tonight I went for the second time to this JavaScript Study Group. The first time I attended it was very structured, with a lecture and exercises. This time, everyone worked on whatever projects they pleased. Since I have been working thru the intermediate algorithm problems on the Free... Continue Reading →

The String Section As a kid, I thought of strings as a part of the orchestra. I played violin in our school orchestra in the fifth grade. (I was still taking piano lessons too, but I was a bit bored with piano.) What I loved then and still love now about the string section is that... Continue Reading →

Geeky Projects Chapter Two I had so much fun creating the plots on Monday, that I decided to look at the project in chapter two of the book “PYTHON PLAYGROUND: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer.” To my pleasure, the project involved using python's turtle module to make spirographs. I loved drawing spirographs as a kid.... Continue Reading →

Girl Develop It - San Diego The Girl Develop It organization has played a HUGE role in my tech career. After I had started an online Ruby class, I realized that maybe I wanted to pursue coding as a career. I knew it would take more education, but I was not sure if I wanted... Continue Reading →

#100techcareers Tonight I attended a career panel about jobs at bay area tech companies. The panel was refreshing in that it was not focused on engineering, but instead on other disciplines within bay area tech companies, like marketing, public policy, human resources and more. Listening to the panel and talking to people at the event who work at companies of various... Continue Reading →

Keen IO Today I wanted to figure out how the Keen IO API works because I planned to attend a meetup there in the evening. I started by reading background articles, and this article written about Pebble, a smartwatch company, provided a solid introduction with an interesting use case. Next, I read the Keen IO... Continue Reading →

Mat Plot Lib Today I was not feeling like studying, which is my usual daily activity for multiple hours. So, I decided to work on a project from the book "PYTHON PLAYGROUND: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer." The book was a download from the Humble Bumble Book Bundle. Over the past few weeks, I... Continue Reading →