Dev News Weekly is designed to give you (and me) 10 useful software/web developer stories every Tuesday morning! Did you notice my typo in my headline? I bet you did. It was on purpose, I promise. This week, Google told us that the top reason code doesn’t compile is typos. Telling programmers that typos cause… Continue reading Dev News Weekly #2: Where typos break code and Microsoft does evreything
Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning! If you want to geek out about software development with me, check out my new Dev News Weekly that will be posted every Tuesday morning! When I write these posts, I… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #56: Anything that can happen in tech is happening in Colorado
In 2013, I started volunteering as the computer lab monitor for Mortensen Elementary after school. The school likes having me there because of my computer science background, so I’m going to make use of that background to teach kids how to code. All updates to this project can be found on the main project page.… Continue reading Hey Colorado tech companies! I need your convention swag!
Dev News Weekly is designed to give you (and me) 10 useful software/web developer stories every Tuesday morning! I’m getting fairly comfortable with my primary newsletter, Colorado Tech Weekly. However, I started that newsletter for 2 reasons. Keep up with the Colorado tech community and keep up with the developer community. Since there is so… Continue reading Dev News Weekly #1: Where Android and I both try something new
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 weekend Andy Vuong with the Denver Post pointed out a seemingly unfair tax on Denver’s web and app developers. Then I read this article “Do You Believe in LIfe After… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #55: It’s not always unicorns and rainbows
Since I’m not sure about what kind of developer I want to be, I decided I would pick different languages/frameworks/etc and try them on for size. I chose to try out Ruby on Rails since it seems to be one of the most popular ways to create dynamic interactive web sites. It’s used in sites… Continue reading Book Review: “Ruby on Rails Tutorial” by Michael Hartl
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’m excited about the strong, growing network of IT women in Colorado. The National Center for Women & Information Technology is based in Boulder. CTA’s Women in Tech event was a… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #54: $53.1M of funding, some rare bad news and the best network of IT women in the country
My goal is to have a software/web/app development job by 2016, so one year ago yesterday I started Colorado Tech Weekly to keep myself up-to-date on what was happening in the technology community in Colorado. I turned it into a blog because I knew that if I wanted to know what was going on, so… Continue reading What I’ve learned about the Colorado tech community after 1 year
Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning! Today marks my one year anniversary of my first CTW post. NOW it’s been one whole year of blogging about the Colorado technology community! Woohoo! I attribute my confusion to the… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #53: Not Just For Startups and My Off-By-One Error
Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local tech events every Monday morning! There are 52 weeks in a year. This is my 52nd CTW post, so it makes sense that I’ve been at this for a year straight! But when I look back,… Continue reading Colorado Tech Weekly #52: Consistency feels good