Archive for October, 2006

I’m an author!

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

I helped write a Redbook! Now I’m an author (in Draft state). Cool!

geek gene?

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

There’s an article in the Toronto Star today about WIT day at CASCON (which is tomorrow! AH!). Q But how is it that women can juggle making computers with making babies? … Q But are the babies disruptive to the computers? How do you trust babies around all that sensitive equipment? BAH! The article makes […]

Feedback is fun

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

And good feedback is the funnest kind. technorati: cascon2006

Hack Evening @CASCON

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Tonight was Hack Camp at CASCON 2006. There were more than 20 people there, despite the awful weather. Sacha and Stephen (nice homepage stephen!) gave a terrific introduction on what Hack Camp was going to be the rest of us chowed down on food. Then the fun began. Our first challenge was to format data […]

The unofficial CASCON

Monday, October 16th, 2006

After our workshop was done, we wandered nextdoor into the Agile all-day workshop that had just finished. I had really hoped to take part in this workshop, especially since the chair of the workshop was Matt Ganis, who I’ve spoken to over the phone. Unfortunately, scheduling didn’t permit me to attend. Lucky for me, though, […]

CASCON: One Down

Monday, October 16th, 2006

This afternoon was my first CASCON workshop. It was pretty amazing – we had 30 people there, and a few waiting at the back in the hopes of getting a machine. There were a few minor glitches with the lab material, which was to be expected given the amount of code they involved, but nothing […]