Coding Geekette

I get to add another talk to my list of Python/IronPython talks, as I’ve been asked to speak at the Cleveland C#/VB.NET SIG for their June meeting. The talk will start with a focus on Python, giving my fellow SIG members a glimpse at yet another language to add to their toolboxes. We’ll take a [...]

I’ve had my netbook since the middle of January, running Windows 7 from day 1. No, my netbook doesn’t have a DVD drive. However, a USB to IDE adapter gave me the ability to hook a drive up to the netbook to get Windows installed. Everywhere I take it - user groups, coffee shops, hotels [...]

Over the past couple months, I had been leery about my hard drive in my laptop. It had been getting noisier, and a noisy hard drive is never a good sign. Before I went to PyCon, we got a new hard drive, just in case we had to swap it out at the last minute. [...]

Yesterday, I took the day off of work to attend Stir Trek. I’d been hearing about it for quite awhile, as Jeff has been quite excited about it and talked about it quite often throughout its planning stages. After two months of planning, the event finally happened! I arrived in Columbus Thursday night, just in [...]

Last night, I attended the inaugural meeting of the Cleveland Architecture SIG. The group itself is being organized by Jody A. Morgan and Andrew Craze. We had people of various backgrounds in attendance - some with a formal architect title, and others who have had (or currently have) some architect-like roles. We started introducing ourselves [...]