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Stage Fright

I’m at An Event Apart in Boston right now, feeling inspired and somewhat exasperated — I’m inspired by seeing fantastic speakers talk about some things they’ve discovered or learned, and am exasperated by my lack of progress in getting up on the stage myself. What keeps me from the stage? …

Thoughts on women in tech

My blog has been neglected because I’ve been so busy running the Women’s Javascript Study Group and doing related networking. O’Reilly wants to give us books! Women 2.0 wants to help out! And Women Who Code is going to be our parent group! This feel-good buzz around women in tech …

Yay for women in tech!

With Zoosk’s support, my colleague Kristin & I are starting a Women’s Javascript Study Group.  I blogged about it on Zoosk’s Engineering Blog — it’s for both beginners and more experienced folk, and we’ll focus on learning vanilla JS and sharing new findings with each other.

On Plumbers & Persuading Stakeholders

Just spent a few amazing days at An Event Apart Austin.  I got into many fun conversations, but I got to thinking about one in particular this morning…. I brought up the issue of persuading stakeholders to adopt certain practices with Jeremy Keith, and suggested it might be a good …

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