Daydreams in Ruby

I am a Ruby, Rails developer who loves learning more about coding. I'm also a University of Michigan alum and former startup founder. I was previously a community builder at the University of Michigan and managing director of a DC nonprofit. I co-organize Rails Girls DC and Silver Spring Ruby and frequently speak at technical conferences.

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Technical Interviews - A Revised Process

I recently attended a handful of conferences, some of which I’ve spoken at. A topic that is frequently discussed based on the research I’ve...
On Accomplishing Goals

I've always been a listmaker. I use evernote to take ideas and things down. I make lists for everything and I keep a running weekly to ...
Storing cookies

Once we established the connection with the website and authenticated, we then needed to take the cookie that we got back and save it so tha...
Using Ember to Make the Seemingly Impossible Easy

This session was titled “ Using Ember to Make the Seemingly Impossible Easy " with Andre Malan and Heyjin Kim . The talk touched on fo...
Mentorship from a n00b's perspective

Here are the slides and notes from my lightening talk at RubyConf 2013 in Miami. While at RubyConf, I did my first lightning talk!!! I h...
One Giant Post about Ruby Nation

This year again, I attended Ruby Nation . This year was great because I actually understood what was going on!! Admittedly, I took better ...
The Unofficial, official Ember Testing Guide

This was one of the sessions I was anxiously awaiting and it did not disappoint. First, a big hand of applause for Eric Berry for giving a...
Broccoli

Moving right along, the next talk was from Jo Liss about Broccoli . Broccoli is a js build tool. The goal of broccoli is to have an archit...
Mentorship: Wants vs. Needs

Mentors generally have the best of intentions. They want to help, they want to teach, they want to give back to the community oftentimes bec...
EmberConf 2014 - Setting the Scene

Last week, I went to EmberConf 2014 . This conference was the first official Ember conference and it was fantastic. For those of you who don...

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