Coding Geekette

A part of my history is closing up, and I have to admit that I’m a little sad. GeoCities is closing up shop later this year. This was where I got my start of doing web development on my own. I had learned HTML in high school to help with the school’s website (at the [...]

This weekend, I drove just over 4 hours to Kalamazoo, MI for the Kalamazoo X Conference, an event that Mike Eaton dreamt up and led. Over the past few months, I had heard a lot of the joys and pains that went into planning this event, and I had looked forward to seeing it happen.Mike [...]

This past Saturday, I attended Central Ohio Day of .NET. I spent a lot of the time running around, but despite missing a couple sessions, I really enjoyed the event. A Friendly Game of Tag Jeff Blankenburg had the fun idea of a Microsoft Tag scavenger hunt at Central Ohio Day of .NET, and he [...]

Stir Trek is only 3 weeks away — are you registered yet? They’ve had some exciting news, and I wanted to post that here, just to remind what you may be missing if you haven’t signed up yet. Event NameThey’ve changed the name! They now have a subtitle… so now it’s “Stir Trek: A ReMix [...]

Many years ago, I remember seeing “Optimized for IE”, “Best viewed inInternet Explorer”, and “IE Only” on websites. Nowadays, I’m not seeingthat as much, and I’m glad. I never realized how much “IE Only” impacted me until I was helping afriend with a project and found that the app worked fine in other browsersfor the [...]

‘Tis the season of local and regional events for both the Cleveland tech community and the Microsoft Heartland region. I’ve already posted what I’m looking forward to in the next couple months, but wait… there’s more! Some events have already announced their summer dates - so save the dates on your calendars and check these [...]

As some of you may have noticed, I’ve updated my blog badges for some of the upcoming events. However, there are also other events going on that I will not be attending due to other commitments, but I want to get the word out about them as well. So what’s happening over the next few [...]

As I finally settle back into side projects after work, I realize that I need to recap my PyCon experience. Since I blogged about my goals, let’s see how they went. Goal #1: Present at PyCon. (accomplished) My presentation was at 10am on Sunday morning, and it was an experience that I won’t forget. It [...]