Coding Geekette

As I read through my RSS feeds, I noticed that December’s ClePy meeting will get into extending Civilization IV with Python. I’ve been a gamer most of my life, with my dad introducing me to Intellivision and Atari at a young age. I stayed solely a console gamer until we got our first computer. At [...]

While looking through the movies on Netflix last night, one title caught my eye - Helvetica. The font name jumped out at me, and I had to wonder… a movie about a font? It isn’t so much a movie, as it is a documentary on typography and thoughts about it throughout the world. Helvetica is [...]

One of the latest talks that I will be adding to my list is “Pumping Iron into Python: Intro to FePy”. Originally, I had named the talk “Pumping Iron into Python : Intro to IronPython”, but that title was too long for the CodeMash submission page. So then I shortened the name, but in changing [...]

On this past Thursday, I caught Mark Mydland’s user group stop here in Cleveland, as part of his Heartland tour. He was showing off VSTS 2010, formerly codenamed Rosario, and some of the features it has to offer. One of the things he showed us was a bug report complete with screenshots, comments, and even [...]

Just a heads up for those of you who are in the Cleveland area: What: Bennett Adelson .NET SIG November Meeting, Steve Smith presents “Programmatic ASP.NET Tips and Tricks” When: Tuesday, November 11th 5:45pm-7:30pm Where:Microsoft Office, 6050 Oak Tree Blvd, Third Floor, Independence, OH 44131 See Steve Smith, Microsoft Regional Director, speak on Programmatic ASP.NET [...]

On Thursday, November 13th, the principal group manager of Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers will be here in Cleveland, visiting various clients and then presenting for the GCPCUG VB.NET/C# SIG that night. All are invited to attend. What: Meet Mark Mydland, Principal Group Manager of Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers When: [...]