Coding Geekette

Jeff Blankenburg had a Blankenthought today about the developer community, what your peers think of you, and how the social networking sites out there that let us review each other are pretty empty. So, he’s come up with a Blankenholiday called Contribupendence Day. If you’re on any social networking site out there where you can [...]

Calling all Cleveland-area software development rockstars! (If you’re in the Cleveland-area, you automatically are a rockstar, since Cleveland rocks!) Our friends down in Tennessee are hosting devLink on August 22nd and 23rd. Amanda is doing the heavy work of getting us a bus to go down there, riding alongside some of the region’s most talented [...]

Last night, I was out at the Greater Cleveland PC Users Group C#/VB.NET SIG, talking with Sam Nasr about the events that are coming up. It looks like we have a busy summer ahead. Here’s what we’re looking forward to: July 11th-13th: Ann Arbor Give Camp (Ann Arbor, MI) July 26th: PyOhio (Columbus, OH) August: [...]

Before I got my Q, I could only imagine what a mobile user’s experience was like through my emulators. Emulators alone though are not enough to get a feel for the true mobile experience. As many of you know, I’m on Twitter quite a bit. As much as I use the site for communication, I [...]

I’m currently listening to the latest episode of Deep Fried Bytes while thinking about the deep fried Twinkies I had last week. Episode 3 is about Twitter war stories. After hearing others’ stories, I figured I’d share one of my own. One of Sarah’s Favorite Twitter War Stories I can’t tell you how I found [...]

Within the past week, I’ve been introduced to more social networking sites. Thanks to Stevi Deter for the Bright Kite invite. I’m still tinkering with this location-based social network (as they claim on their site). Today was my first day using it, but I’ll play with it more throughout the week and talk about it [...]

So Mike knows that some of us were band dorks (and orch dorks too!) and some of us still play some kind of musical instrument. But he wants to know his Twitter peeps’ software development stories. So I figured I’d play - let’s explore Sarah’s steps into software development. How old were you when you [...]

The following IRC discussion is real. There are no actors in this scene - just real .NET devs chatting on random geeky stuff, which got me thinking… 21:45 ok, so given a typical DoDN or Code Camp…what about an “intro track”. Have one track (4-5 sessions) dedicated entirely to beginners…and when I say beginners, I [...]

So there’s a new podcast in town called Deep Fried Bytes, and it’s put out by Keith Elder and Chris Woodruff. As they descrive it, it’s an audio talk show with a Southern flavor. I heard about it from Jeff Blankenburg’s blog, and although I’m not typically one to listen to podcasts, I figured I’d [...]

While reading up on my Google Alerts, I came across this Cleveland Day of .NET review at Taller Code. It was good to see another person’s perspective of the day, and it’s always interesting to read what others have to say about your presentation. As a speaker, I find feedback to be quite important. Whether [...]