I started with Codecademy’s Code Year track and have been learning programming progressively ever since. It took me months to start and almost one year to get into the habit of coding frequently. By Dilys Sun (Student, Codecademy) Congratulations on learning how to code! Chances are you have already envisioned how the coding knowledge may [...]
Posts Tagged "Javascript"
Carbon38 Launches Today, A Year After Attending Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (Surfing The Wave)
January 14, 2013 – 11:59 am
This unique environment of midnight sandwich runs, unending games of ping pong, impromptu social media study halls, and Ruby on Rails power hours has served to concentrate our community and expose us to the next generation of visionaries and entrepreneurs. By Katie Warner Johnson (Co-Founder, Carbon38) My team and I all looked up from our [...]
Where UX Meets Code: Get Started On Web & Mobile Development
October 26, 2012 – 2:48 pm
The front-end web and mobile development is where UX meets code. By Frances Advincula (Software Engineer, Accenture) When I was young, I wanted to be a fashion designer. But then I grew up and realized I actually have to be able to eat food and pay rent, so I became a software engineer instead. Fast [...]
Girls Who Code Graduates First Inaugural Class In NYC
September 6, 2012 – 9:38 am
Girls paired up to complete their final projects, from mobile apps to computer games. By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) The first inaugural class of Girls Who Code graduated last Thursday after the 8-week summer crash course in technology and computer science. From about 100 applicants, 20 girls from underserved high schools across New York [...]
Tech Talk: Frontend Vs. Backend
August 14, 2012 – 1:35 pm
The frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest. By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder, Balance Media & Skillcrush) The frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest. You [...]
Story Of The Hackfest – Bacon Unicorn!
May 7, 2012 – 6:00 am
During the hackathon, we’re constantly evaluating whether “it’s worth it” on any given problem. By Anna Billstrom (iOS & Facebook App Developer, Self) The AT&T Hackfest was in Palo Alto. Sleepy, beautiful, affluent, diverse and yet economically not-diverse, Palo Alto, at the AT&T Foundry, a neat space with lots of power, sunlight, and (oddly, but [...]
Almost $20k Cash – AT&T Hackathon Recap (Engineers Don’t Blog)
May 7, 2012 – 5:00 am
This is my story of how I almost won $20k. By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) This weekend I participated in the AT&T Mobile HTML5 Hackathon. I had very mixed feelings in the beginning about my participation for multiple reasons. The first reason in which I was against participating is because I have a number [...]
Partner Event: O’Reilly Fluent Conf (May 29-31 In San Francisco)
April 27, 2012 – 11:00 am
Master the Web’s most important technologies and explore the changing worlds of JavaScript and HTML5. At O’Reilly Fluent Conference in San Francisco May 29-31, 2012, you’ll make sense of the vast explosion of JavaScript and related technologies and take away practical skills you can apply immediately. Fluent gives developers working with JavaScript a place to [...]
How Google Makes GMail Mobile Fast (Web Performance)
September 2, 2011 – 7:26 am
By Sophia Perl (Producer, PicPredict) When I saw the title of the Meetup talk “High Performance Mobile” and that it was in the south bay, I was sold in an instant. Who doesn’t want to know how to make their mobile web apps go faster? The SF Web Performance Meetup talk took place at LinkedIn [...]
Partner event: Node.js Class Taught by Spoondate CTO
May 2, 2011 – 7:50 pm
Spoondate Co-Founder & CTO Van Nguyen is teaching a 4 week course on Node.js starting May 9 online at CodeLesson. Learn how to create high-performance, server-side applications using JavaScript from the Spoondate co-founder building an innovative technology stack powered by Node on the server and JavaScript in the browser. This is a rare opportunity to [...]
