FollowI went to the Philadelphia Women in Tech Summit, part of Philly tech week, today. It was my first conference, and a great experience. Here were some of the big lessons I took away from the event. If you want something, ask. “No one is going to offer you opportunities. It’s no one else’s responsibility to make you happy in your career.” #witsphl — Vicki(@vboykis) April 21, 2012 In order to get started, you must …
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Blogs are projects, too
When people post projects/hacks on Hacker News, the HN community is good at giving feedback. Why don’t you add feature X? Or, The layout of Y is confusing. Or, Z failed when I tried to do X. Sometimes people will say simply, “This is entirely shit,” but more commonly people have feedback or advice. This is not what happens with blog posts. It’s facepalm-inducing when a designer goes to the trouble of redesigning a site …
Visiting New York for the Young, Geeky and Clueless
Drew and I went to New York this weekend, and wandered around like the naive nerds we are. I’ve been living in Philly for almost a year and yet we hadn’t made it up yet (with the exception of hackNY, which I hesitate to count because we basically didn’t make it out of one building). So when we headed out on Friday we were armed chiefly with our smartphones and our curiosity. It was a …
Not now? Yes, now.
Quick PSA, by way of one of my friends who actually knows something* about this: When companies publish software updates and security patches, hackers (not the good kind) can run a diff on the old software versus the new (patched) software and see just what hole the company was patching. They can then take advantage of that knowledge and attack computers that haven’t been updated yet; aka, the systems where someone has pressed “Not …