Loren Wang and I were Opportunity Scholars at the 2015 RubyConf in San Antonio, Texas last week. It was four days of meeting incredible and inspiring programmers within the community! Fellow scholar Shana Moore authored several blog posts about her day-by-day experiences at RubyConf and the scholarship application process, if you’re interested in becoming a scholar next year! Bella Woo also chronicled her experiences, which include meeting other scholars via Twitter to make lodging arrangements....

Update: You can read all about my first hackathon experience here on Medium Hey folks, if you’re attending the Lesbians Who Tech summit, come find me on the panel at Bootcamp 101: So You Want to Learn How To Code on Friday, October 2nd at 11:15am. I’ll be chatting about my experiences as a software development student at Ada Developers Academy. I’ve even got my own fancy speaker bio. And on Saturday, I’ll be helping out with the hackathon....

Hey folks, Sorry I haven’t had very much time to post. I wrote my first Twitter bot during a weeklong exploratory project during our break from class. I was inspired to check out bots after attending Liz Uselton’s *.rb talk, Build Your Own Friends: Fun Times With Twitterbots. Here are some key takeaways from my twitter bot experience. You can check it out @CoinForTechConf. And you can find my GitHub repo for it here....

Cohort #Unigoat had a week-long vacation to rest up after spending the last 2.5 weeks working with Rails. In case you’d like to see some examples of what we’ve been creating in class, here are two projects I contributed to: Unigoat Books (GitHub) This first Rails endeavor was a solo project Kudos to our instructors for designing the TaskList projects, especially TaskList Sinatra. It gave us a great stepping-stone for learning how Rails and Active Record work....

Last week was a serious blur that ended with a working website. I’m still blinking because my eyes feel dry from the wind chill. Fwoooooooosh. Here are the tools we crammed into our coding repertoire in just five freakin days, along with some jumbled streams of consciousness. 1. Gemsets and Bundler Pretend like your project is a saltwater fish. Using Gemsets and Bundler is like getting the salinity, temperature, and PH levels just right in the fish tank....