Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning! Lately I’ve had issues finding themes in the headlines, but this week we get three! I made my first open source contribution about a week ago. It was just a typo… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #156: Open Source, Job Searching, Security
Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning (Unless it’s a holiday. I hope you had a great Memorial Day!)! People often ask me how many events I go to every week and the truth is that I rarely get… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #155: Nothing Will Replace Meeting in Person
Thursday night was the Go Code Colorado Final Event at the Seawell Grand Ballroom in Denver, Colorado. Last year I attended the same event as a member of a finalist team (we won, by the way) but this year I got to be an observer which made the event more relaxing for me. The goal… Continue reading 2016 Go Code Colorado Winners and Advice On How To Become One
Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning! I don’t know where to start this week! Do I start with the Boulder Startup Week highlights from BuiltinColorado? Highlights that do not include Brad Feld in shiny gold shorts as… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #154: CTA, BSW, Go Code Colorado and Influence
Last week I had my first phone interview for a job in software development. It was for a DevOps position that required comfort with git, continuous integration, CentOS and the yum package manager. I was 2 for 4. I can use git. I am familiar with continuous integration but my Linux knowledge was admittedly rusty.… Continue reading (Re)learning Linux with Lynda and VirtualBox
Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning! Last Monday I was invited to be a guest on the EleventyTwelve podcast with Jared Ewy and Aaron Templer. It was fun to meet Jared and Aaron and see how another… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #153: Podcast Guesting, Linux Learning, DevOps and BSW Watching
Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning! Finding opportunities is easy. Taking advantage of opportunities? That’s the difficult part. With achievement of my degree within sight and a few projects completed it is time for me to take… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #152: Finding Opportunities in Colorado is Easy
When I decided to go back to school to be a software developer I had a grand plan. The plan was to use this site to show off my programming projects, but I didn’t want to just show the finished projects. I wanted to show how I developed the projects to prove that I could… Continue reading Perfection is a Dirty Word and the Definition of “Correctly Done” is Highly Subjective
Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning! I love learning the ins and outs of how things work. This is why I am pursuing a Computer Science degree as opposed to going to a coding school. I don’t… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #151: The Nuts and Bolts of Bits and Bytes
Last week I decided to stop recording the Colorado Tech Weekly Podcast. It was a fun experiment and I’m glad I tried it. It gave me the confidence to talk more freely about my knowledge and I’m proud that I gave podcasting a try without spending money on all the cool audio toys… although I did… Continue reading Podcasts for the Colorado Tech Geek