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Rails Girls presentation

lindaliukas
December 29, 2011
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Rails Girls presentation

lindaliukas

December 29, 2011
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  1. Rails & Girls a.k.a how to get girls excited about

    technology Friday, December 2, 11
  2. 3 Finland - the backbone of Internet MySQL, SSH, IRC,

    Linux, Nokia - all come from Finland. All built by men - in one of the most gender-equal countries of world. Friday, December 2, 11
  3. 4 Don’t just like or reblog. Curation is cool, but

    even cooler is creating. Friday, December 2, 11
  4. 5 My story. Madly in love with Al Gore in

    2001. In Finland. Friday, December 2, 11
  5. First experience in software craftmanship. (I grew up listening to

    Spice Girls and Girl Power. Girls - for me - is not diminutive, but strong.) Friday, December 2, 11
  6. Boys invited too. (Make something so cool boys want to

    be part of it) Friday, December 2, 11
  7. Koodi on lukutaitoa. Timissä monia rooleja. Code is literacy And

    valuable wherever you work. Friday, December 2, 11
  8. Why Bento? • You need a balanced mix of things.

    • It’s a puzzle - putting everything together in the box. • “Ekiben“ - content which is arranged in the most efficient, graceful manner. The bento is presented in a simple, beautiful, balanced way. Nothing lacking. Nothing superfluous. Not decorated, but wonderfully designed. Friday, December 2, 11
  9. HTML AJAX CSS RUBY, PYTHON, PHP, SCALA MYSQL, MONGODB RUBY

    ON RAILS, DJANGO, CAKEPHP, JETTY , LIFT…. XML JAVASCRIP DOM UNICORN Friday, December 2, 11
  10. Etsy: “We use a number of different programming languages (including

    Matlab!) but are primarily a PHP shop. We have a number of databases, some of which are MySQL and some of which are PostgreSQL. “ Friday, December 2, 11
  11. 24 Foursquare: “Server code is written in scala running on

    the lift web framework using jetty for a webserver. We front everything with nginx, and use HAProxy in between. MongoDB handles most of our data storage needs (though a bit hasn't been migrated off PostgreSQL yet). Friday, December 2, 11
  12. R #1 PHP #2 SaaS #3 RoR #4 HTML #5

    MongoDB Rules: Figure out the term and place it on the bentobox in the right place.. There might be false friends and doubles. Googling allowed! You have five minutes – wrong answers will be removed, the team with most post-its wins! #6 Apache #7 CSS #8 Django #9 MySQL #10 nginx Friday, December 2, 11
  13. Building web apps is fun but also creative and personal,

    craftmanship of modern day. Friday, December 2, 11
  14. “Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science

    is a liberal art.” – Steve Jobs Friday, December 2, 11
  15. 36 What next? Berlin, Tallinn, Amsterdam, New York.. Local chapters:

    coaches, girls & gems Android, WP, iOS, Coffeescript, HTML5, APIt? Friday, December 2, 11
  16. 37 Whole new culture of software development. And a heroine

    to match. Beware Pippi Longstrumps. Friday, December 2, 11