LISP practice I needed to find a new resource to learn LISP as the online tutorial I had been using was taken down. Enter the book: Land of LISP. Truth be told, I was going to buy the book a while ago, but the $35 price on Amazon seemed expensive. Thankfully, a message posted in... Continue Reading →

Microservices at AWS Loft Today was my second time going to the Amazon Web Services Loft. The classes this afternoon were centered around microservices. The idea behind microservices is the ability to scale by separating applications into smaller independent microservices that each have a different function. Amazon has a few different ways of implementing microservices,... Continue Reading →

Hackbright Alumni Network This morning I met up with a Ladynerd (the term for a Hackbright alumna) for coffee. She completed Hackbright in 2012. I am so grateful that she took the time to meet with me and answer all of my questions! We spoke about Hackbright, jobs, career paths and more; she had a... Continue Reading →

Women Who Code EastBay, Clef, and Hackbright Tonight was my second time attending the Women Who Code event at Clef in Oakland that occurs every other week. Everyone shows up with a project(s) she is working on and after eating and introductions, works on her project. The people at Clef are kind to lend the... Continue Reading →

AT & T IoT Coding Workshop This week I am in Los Angeles, and happened upon a free workshop hosted by AT & T regarding IoT. I have been to one other workshop on IoT, as part of the Spectra Hackathon, and really enjoyed it. So, I was excited to learn more. The first step,... Continue Reading →

Today I went to the Forward 5 > JS conference. This was my first tech conference since I finished Hackbright. I was so excited to have a nametag that had the word "software" on it! The speakers and panels were very insightful. One of my favorite speakers was Max Firtman, whose talk was entitled "The Web... Continue Reading →

Today Hackbright hosted a webinar given by the Apache Software Foundation. I have heard of open source software, but I did not know anything about the Apache Software Foundation. As the hour progressed I was increasingly amazed at all of the Apache projects. I had no idea that Cassandra (it is on my list of things... Continue Reading →

Tonight I attended the Earthtones event at Slack. I use Slack every day, so I was curious to meet the people behind the app that is so integral to my life these days. The event did not disappoint! The speakers were engaging and insightful. First, there was a recruiter from Slack who shared how best to... Continue Reading →

During my studying today I couldn't help but finish watching the AVL tree video from the MIT series! I have taken a few classes on React and I will continue to take them at every opportunity I get. Tonight's class was taught by another Michelle  -- Michelle Bu, who is an engineer at Stripe. Amazingly... Continue Reading →

Women Who Code San Francisco hosted an event to practice algorithms. The event was held at a recruiting agency, Talener SF. The evening began with a video of a lecture by an engaging MIT professor from the Introduction to Algorithms class. The lecture concerned AVL trees, which is a type of binary search tree. For... Continue Reading →