Coding Geekette

While I was at CodeMash, I attended an open space on “Getting Started in Speaking”. One of the questions asked was how to find out who’s looking for speakers. Carey Payette mentioned on Twitter that Central Ohio Day of .NET opened their call for speakers. While at CodeMash, we had heard from John Kellar that [...]

The PyCon 2009 team has posted the talks. It looks like they have a little something for everyone. I will be speaking at PyCon on IronPython (#12 in the talk list). For those who saw my presentation at CodeMash, my presentation at PyCon will be a condensed version of the CodeMash talk. I am interested [...]

After a lack in communication, several delays, and a reorder, my Dell Mini 9 has arrived. The first thing I did after taking it out of the box was installed Windows 7 on it. So far, I’m extremely impressed – all the drivers loaded nicely, and I haven’t had to do anything special to get [...]

Last Tuesday, I left work early to head out to the Kalahari resort in beautiful Sandusky, Ohio. Although “resort” may make you think of fun in the sun, this was definitely not the case. We had fun in the Nia conference center there, at CodeMash v2.0.0.9. CodeJam and the other Precompiler (Day 0) Events CodeMash [...]

Welcome to this episode of “As Dell Turns”… in this episode, we’ll take a look at why Sarah still doesn’t have her Dell and which big name company joins in on dropping the ball. The latest ship date on my Dell Mini 9 is now 1/16, but this time it’s because we have an answer [...]

As I check out Is it CodeMash yet?, I see that the day has finally come. Yesterday, when I arrived at the Kalahari Conference Center, I was totally at a loss for words. This place is larger than life, simply amazing. I have had many people tell me about the awesomeness of CodeMash, and I [...]

Tomorrow is the start of my first CodeMash experience, at the Precompiler. There are so many tutorials that I want to check out, but I will mostly be hiding out in the CodeJam. It all started in 2007, when my buddy Russ from work told me about CodeMash. He’s gone to past CodeMashes, and whenever [...]

Today’s countdown feature is the event known as Open Spaces. While looking at the CodeMash schedule, you may find yourself not interested in any of the topics in a particular time slot. If you find yourself in that position, I’d recommend you check out Open Spaces and see what’s going on there. What are Open [...]

I’ve chronicled my journey so far with Dude, I’m Not Getting a Dell – Part 1. It doesn’t help the situation that the rep is on vacation, and all that his backup can do is say that it will ship soon. How long does it take to come up with a real explanation for the [...]