Coding Geekette

While blog-surfing tonight, I came across this entry on Inside the Machine. This has me thinking… What’s the most fun you’ve ever had… programming? I think for me, one of my more fun projects was taking part in CodeFest ’99 at OOPSLA, during my sophomore year of college. I was part of a team that [...]

While reading Mike Eaton‘s blog, I had read about Ann Arbor Give Camp. He had mentioned it in the past, so it’s nice to finally get more information. What is a Give Camp? A Give Camp is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for [...]

After seeing how yesterday went, I’m looking forward to seeing how Cleveland Day of .NET will take off next year. We will have to do this again next year, and I look forward to help planning it yet again! Thanks to our attendees for coming out and seeing what we had to offer. Thanks to [...]

Corey Haines is organizing the get-togethers for this weekend. There’s talks of meeting up at Bahama Breeze for the pocketmod folding party around 6pm/6:30pm Friday (tomorrow). There will be lots of socializing, and I will make a presence for at least part of it. (Something about them wanting me to bring T-shirts, like I’m the [...]

In my day job, I am a web developer. My title is simply Developer, but most of my projects focus specifically on the web side of things. Background Before working here, I did minimal web development professionally. What little web development I did focused on portal systems, but because they were geared for a small-scaled [...]

Cleveland Day of .NET is this Saturday at the Hilton in Beachwood. We have speakers coming in from MI, TN, other parts of OH, and even some local Cleveland-area speaker. Our topics are as spread as our locations - covering Silverlight, WCF, IronRuby, IronPython, F#, Agile development, ASP.NET, Sharepoint, SQL Server, SEO, TDD, WPF, and [...]

As much as I was hoping to screencast my presentation, the more I work on it, the more I realize it doesn’t lend itself to screencasting. There are parts that will require some audience interaction, and the presentation wouldn’t make much sense without those parts. So for those who are interested in my presentation but [...]

With the last 2 weeks of Cleveland Day of .NET planning here, I’m quite busy in getting the last minute stuff together. This FedEx box from DHL, with no damage on the outside so no UPS visit, has a lot of swag. Thanks to… oh wait… you’ll just have to come to the event to [...]

While working on my IronPython presentation, I came across the announcement for PyOhio. They are now calling for proposals and accepting submissions until June 1. It’s good to see a familiar name to contact with proposal questions. Mat Kovach is a Cleveland-based developer who is involved with Northeast Ohio Open Source Society. He runs with [...]