About the Coding Geekette

Sarah Dutkiewicz has worn many hats in the past decade - including technical support tech, technical support manager, database administrator, system administrator, programmer, report writer, editor, and now developer. She graduated in 2002 with her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Technology from the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. When she isn't working on database-driven websites, she's reading up on the latest technologies and networking with other developers.

How the Nickname Came to Be

While working in the technical support realm, Sarah was introduced to Martin Hebrank, a system administrator who worked down the hall from her. After spending a lot of time chatting, they somehow came up with the term geekette. Since Sarah loves programming so much, she added "coding" before it to qualify just what kind of geekette she is. And yes, you can call her a geek and she won't be offended. She's 100% girl geek and proud of it!

On Languages...

Sarah Dutkiewicz is a self-admitted programming language addict, having done work in PHP, Visual Basic, FoxPro, VBA, VB.NET, Javascript, and C#. Outside of the office, she's been tinkering with Python and IronPython since January 2007, having presented on Python or IronPython at events such as Cleveland Day of .NET, Software Freedom Day - Cleveland 2008, and notably PyCon 2009. She is also serving as the publicity lead for the 2009 PyOhio, a two day conference on all things Python. In addition to this technical blog at http://www.codinggeekette.com, Sarah maintains a community site at http://www.clevelandtechevents.com.

Current Topics of Interest

  • User Interface Design
  • User-Centric Development
  • Database-driven Websites
  • DLR Languages
  • Sociological Factors in Computing
  • Social Networking

Upcoming Presentations

  • 2009
    • "Going Cross-Platform with C#" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Devlink. Nashville, TN, August 2009

Previous Presentations

  • 2009
    • "XAML Basics" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Cleveland WPF Users Group. Cleveland, OH, July 2009
    • "Python 101 for the .NET Developer" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Cleveland C#/VB.NET SIG. Cleveland, OH, June 2009
    • "Social Networking for Developers Geeks" Sarah Dutkiewicz. KalamazooX. Kalamazoo, MI, April 2009 (slides)
    • "Intro to the New Data Types in SQL 2008" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Central Ohio Day of .NET. Wilmington, OH, April 2009
    • "Pumping Iron into Python: Intro to FePy" Sarah Dutkiewicz. PyCon. Chicago, IL, March 2009
    • "Marketing Your Event Online" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Ignite Cleveland. Cleveland, OH, February 2009
    • "Pumping Iron into Python: Intro to FePy" Sarah Dutkiewicz. CodeMash. Sandusky, OH, January 2009
  • 2008
    • "XAML Basics" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Cleveland Silverlight Firestarter. Cleveland, OH, November 2008
    • "Behold the Power of Python" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Software Freedom Day - Cleveland. Cleveland, OH, October 2008
    • "Intro to the New Data Types in SQL 2008" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Ann Arbor Day of .NET. Ann Arbor, MI, October 2008
    • "Intro to the New Data Types in SQL 2008" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Ohio North SQL SIG Meeting. Cleveland, OH, September 2008
    • "Intro to the IronPython Flying Circus" Sarah Dutkiewicz. Cleveland Day of .NET. Cleveland, OH, May 2008
  • 1999
    • "Squeak" Sarah Kahl. Toledo Area Linux Users Group, Toledo, OH, December 1999
    • "Java Implementation of the Vending Machine Problem" Jason Bechtel, Sarah Kahl, & Emilie Paddock. OOPSLA '99, Denver, CO, November 1999
    • "SAMBA w/SWAT" Sarah Kahl & Kevin Otte. Toledo Area Linux Users Group, Toledo, OH, April 1999

Professional Memberships