08
Jun
My second interview ever is up! This one is with the folks over at WordCamp Chicago leading up to their event next weekend. I’ll be speaking during the final slot on Sunday… It’s a good thing my talk is kinda funny! Maybe I should put a bowl of candy by the door, too. Oh! Bonus […]
18
May
I was recently interviewed by Jeremy Allen from MLive / the Ann Arbor News regarding gender disparity in the tech fields of Ann Arbor. The secret to my success is finally out: boy bands. Deal with it. Check it out! Gender disparity: Women severely underrepresented in tech fields in Ann Arbor area
09
May
This year I was fortunate enough to be able to attend RailsConf for the first time in my ~7 years of on-and-off Rails development. It was an awesome experience overall, especially because I was joined by 13 of my remote, Articulate teammates! Articulate Co-Working Space Since the conference started on Tuesday, we decided to arrange […]
13
Apr
Yes! Girl Develop It is coming to Ann Arbor! Inspired by the success of the Girl Develop It Detroit chapter, myself and Ronda Bergman – a long time developer and president of the Ann Arbor chapter of Association for Women in Computing, are co-founding this chapter in hopes of creating a thriving community of women […]
29
Mar
Hellllloooooo friends. Back again with some more SlickQuiz updates. Do you know what I’m excited about this time? The super fresh logo I just made in celebration of the release of v1.3 SlickQuiz WordPress. Just look at it! It’s so blue and shiny. Gradient-y and shadow-y, in just the right places. I’m pretty happy with […]
29
Mar
Hey everybody! About a week ago I was faced with a development dilemma. I needed a search field that toggled open (via jQuery width animation) in my site header. After toggling open, the field would get focus; upon toggling shut, the field would blur and the value would be reset. This seems pretty straightforward, right? […]
01
Mar
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted about new updates to SlickQuiz but I’ve put a ton of work into it over the last month or so and am overall very happy with some of the new features and changes that have been included! Here’s the run down… v1.2.33 Previewing the quiz is now […]
13
Jan
This year’s annual Women of CodeMash photo Last week I was fortunate enough to attend my second CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio at the ever entertaining Kalihari waterpark resort. It was a blast – as expected. Many old friends were seen, and even more new friends were made. Many new things were learned and shared. […]
31
Dec
I’ve been in the web development business for just about 7 years now, but this has been the first year when I have finally felt like this is where I belong. In the past, there had always been thoughts in the back of my mind that maybe this wasn’t for me, that I’d be better […]
21
Nov
I’ve already mentioned it a few times but I figured that now, after one whole month of contributing code, it’d be a good time to share the news with all of you… I’m doing frontend development for Articulate now! I discovered Articulate via a job post on Github Jobs and became immediately smitten with the […]