Coding Geekette

This post has been inspired by To Code or not To Code, who made a post about his geeky hobby of model railroads. As we discussed, geeks need hobbies too. This one I’m going to talk about is definitely geeky - it’s called geocaching. Quick - what’s the overall concept of geocaching? The overall concept [...]

For all of my past programming positions, I’ve worked on in-house applications. I knew who my end users were, and I was able to develop solutions for them based on what they had and what they needed. But what do you do when you’re designing for the public? You don’t know who may be visiting [...]

When I was studying for my degree, one of my favorite classes was a programming paradigms class. It covered various types of languages and some basic structures. It taught me that there are certain languages better than others for each situation. To be a good programmer, it helps to know the language you work in. [...]

Yesterday, at lunch, one of my fellow programmers asked me “Why OOPSLA? Why not TechEd or some other conference?” Honestly, having been out of the programming realm for so long, I’m not familiar with all the conferences out there for us. So give me links to look into these other conferences. I’ve already declared 2008 [...]

A co-worker asked me today if I had heard of a language called “perl”. The programmers have been talking of various languages ever since one came back from Codemash. This particular co-worker turns to me whenever she finds something that she doesn’t really understand. Hearing her question really made me think about it. I used [...]

Nine years ago, I was a student at the University of Toledo, studying for my bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering Technology. I was the vice chair for the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, and I was active at both the local and national levels. I was a presenter on SAMBA/SWAT and [...]