Coding Geekette

CodeMash is looking for speakers for their 2009 conference. What is CodeMash? CodeMash is a conference for developers of all platforms to come together and exchange their knowledge, no matter what their choice of language may be. As they say on their site: CodeMash is all about cross-domain, cross-discipline communication. The 2009 conference is January [...]

What happens when you take a big company with an operating system that many of us complain about and get them together with people who’ve only heard the complaints and never given the operating system a fair chance? Introducing the “Mojave Experiment”… Microsoft decided to take people who’ve never touched Vista and introduce them to [...]

While reading Rhonda Tipton’s weekly link post, I came across a link to Chris Woodruff’s Call for Twitter Book Review Day. Have you read any good books lately? Are you currently enjoying one? On this Wednesday, July 30th, make sure to post a review of something you’ve recently read or are reading to Twitter so [...]

Thanks to last minute notice from Jeff Blankenburg, I’m putting together a last minute geek dinner here in Cleveland. So… if you’re interested, please either DM me on Twitter, IM me on AIM, email me at sarah at codinggeekette dot com, or leave me a comment here on this blogpost by 1pm Eastern time so [...]

Tonight, Jennifer Marsman came out and talked to the Greater Cleveland PC Users Group C#/VB.NET SIG about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Although I’m a web developer and I don’t typically play with desktop apps, I wanted to see what WPF had to offer. (That and I wanted to see one of Jennifer’s presentation, as I [...]

When I first started tinkering with Virtual Earth, I blogged about the interactive SDKs and mentioned that I had found other Live tools. Here are just a few Live things that I’ve been playing with… Listas Over in the Live Labs, there’s a list-making site called Listas. Now I’ve been playing with this site off [...]

So another Internet meme is making its rounds… and here’s how I got it: Josh Holmes > Michael Eaton > Sarah Dutkiewicz The questions I have to answer are: Who has inspired you and how?What have they inspired you to do?Who else have they inspired? There are two guys who came to my mind when [...]

As the UML guy mentioned in his Ann Arbor Give Camp wrap-up and on Twitter, I had my little Code Monkey with me. Ever since I heard the infamous Jonathan Coulton song, I looked at this little guy and wondered if I’d ever call him a code monkey. This weekend, he made his debut. This [...]

Sunday was our final day of Ann Arbor Give Camp, the day where we turned over our projects to the charities. Once my teammates Brian and Kevin arrived, we worked on the finishing touches of the site - minor CSS changes and template updates. John came by Sunday afternoon to see the site, and we [...]