“It was a good opportunity to get more into a Ruby on Rails,” says Karen Keasler. “Ruby is a pretty easy- to- read language – it’s more like reading sentences and can be a lot less intimidating. I think it’s a great opportunity for women to get in and see that coding is hard, but [...]
Posts Tagged "Ruby on Rails"
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 [...]
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 [...]
How I Learned To Code
July 9, 2012 – 6:00 am
From one-day classes to Stanford courses, Natasha continues learning to code at Dev Bootcamp. By Natasha Murashev (Student, Dev Bootcamp) Learning to code is one of the most challenging things I’ve accomplished in my life to date. It is also the accomplishment that I’m most proud of. The journey started two years ago when I [...]
Hackathon: An Amazing Experience With New Friends
June 25, 2012 – 10:00 am
“Everyone contributed their skills, which was perfect. We had an iPhone developer, an Android developer, a few Rails developers including myself…” By Natasha Murashev (Student, Dev Bootcamp) Today, I participated in my very first Hackathon, and what an experience! So far, I’ve been building apps on my own, so this was the first time I [...]
RailsGirls Launches Workshop In San Francisco (June 29-30)
June 7, 2012 – 2:56 pm
RailsGirls San Francisco is a free crash course on how to build web applications with Ruby on Rails. By Crystal C. Yan (Marketing Intern, StackMob) My colleagues and I at StackMob are on a mission to bring some RailsGirls love to San Francisco. RailsGirls San Francisco on June 29-30, 2012 is a free crash course [...]
Starting Up: Resources For Learning Programming, The Software Business And Design
March 29, 2012 – 9:00 am
Learn how to program, what software businesses are, and how to design – through free classes online! By Frances Advincula (Former Platform Development Intern, Accenture Software) Someday I will get through all of this – the courses here are free, through endeavors such as iTunes U and MIT Open Courseware. For The Programmers Multi-core Programming [...]
Rails Web App: Easy Like Sunday Morning
February 5, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) This is a tutorial to on how to create a simple Rails 3.2 web app. Basic Assumptions: Ruby 1.9.3, RubyGems, and Rails 3.2 installed. If not, visit rubyonrails.org/download PostgreSQL is installed. If not, visit postgresql.org/download/ You are familiar with the Ruby programming language. If not, check out tryruby.org, to [...]
The Impact of Twitter on RailsBridge (Learning Ruby on Rails)
November 8, 2011 – 7:10 am
By Jennifer Lindner (Organizer, RailsBridge & Freelance Open Source Developer) Twitter not only helps facilitate organizing across the world, they invest in their local community by hosting RailsBridge workshops in their San Francisco office. We’re doing it. We’re teaching each other technology. Not how to use it: how to build it. We’re teaching and learning [...]
“I Have An Idea, Now What?” (Resources For New Entrepreneurs)
November 8, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) I often receive emails or view posts of the flavor, “I have an idea, I don’t know how to code, now what?” This is my response for those who are curious about starting an web-based or software startup. (in no particular order): Start Building: Startup Weekend Find a local [...]
