Definition of a hackathon flame-out: A hackathon flame-out occurs when a participant gets so frustrated and discouraged that they leave the hackathon before it ends. This weekend I took time off of work to participate in the Pebble Rocks Boulder Hackathon. The hackathon is described as “seventy-five bold designers, developers, and makers will use Pebble… Continue reading My Hackathon Flame-Out And How To Avoid One
2 years ago, on June 16, I posted my first Colorado Tech Weekly. A year ago I reflected on what I learned so I figured since I’m still going and the last reflection was fun I’d do it again. 5 things I’ve learned in no particular order You need style AND substance to succeed – Colorado… Continue reading What I’ve learned about the Colorado tech community after Year 2 of CTW
With Christmas break in between my classes at Regis, I decided to do a little more playing on my own. I’ve decided to poke at the Twitter REST API since I use Twitter a ton and have some issues with how it works. Creating my own app that references the Twitter API can solve my… Continue reading Playing with the Twitter API for the first time
Monday starts the 2014 Denver Startup Week, a week to celebrate and encourage tech startups in and around Denver. This makes now a perfect time for me to rant about how software development is taught. We need to shift our focus from “How to write code” to “How to make an app”. I have an… Continue reading Let’s teach people how to make apps, not just write code
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
Last week I got to spend the day at the Colorado Technology Association’s APEX Conference in Denver. Going as a student is the best way to visit a technology conference. It was full of professionals eager to share their knowledge and their projects and as a student who isn’t hirable yet, there is no pressure to impress!… Continue reading Why Every Student Should Go to a Tech Conference
06/11/13 – I went to my first Colorado Technology Association (CTA) event on Tuesday. It was a presentation on cloud computing hosted by CTA, OCx Networks and Nebula, Inc. with Chris Kemp, co-founder of Nebula, Inc. as the keynote speaker. The audience was a fun mix of sales representatives and engineers and lucky for me… Continue reading My Head in the Clouds – Cloud Computing