Our very own Sarah Allen is featured as part of NPR’s series – Changing the Lives of Women. In the article, Sarah shares a bit of her journey as a programmer from teaching herself simple programs on the Apple II…
This month marked the first anniversary of my joining Rachel Myers as a RailsBridge meta-organizer. After I organized a workshop in March 2012, she asked me at the afterparty if I wanted to help her make workshops happen each month…
RailsBridge is 100% volunteer-based. It’s really fun! But sometimes we end up with a big backlog of to-do items. Can you help with any of these things? (Almost all of these things can be started by joining the RailsBridge Google…
A renewed effort to build out Bridge Troll (open source event management software) started in late November 2012, but mostly inside my head. As a new product manager, I wanted to define ALL THE THINGS before we started to build…
Congratulations to San Diego on their upcoming workshop on March 8 & 9! If you are in San Diego and are a Ruby on Rails developer who is interested in sharing your expertise with others at a RailsBridge workshop, please…
Putting on a RailsBridge workshop takes a lot of different pieces. You need volunteers to teach and TA, you need students to devote half a weekend to computer-time, you need a place with lots of tables and chairs and power…
Daniel Choi and a brilliant team of RoR devs put on their second Boston RailsBridge workshop in November. It included things like free O’Reilly & Prag Prog e-books and stickers featuring their sweet new logo. Oh, and learning. A lot…
Suggestotron is the flagship RailsBridge curriculum. Although somewhat difficult to say aloud, it is the springboard for all RailsBridge intro to Rails classes, whether the students are total “Ruby Nubys” or professional Java developers wanting to learn more about this…
(Hi! I’m Lillie Chilen, and I do meta-organizing for RailsBridge SF, which means that I work with Rachel Myers to find organizers and venues for our monthly workshops here. This is a post I wrote on my blog and thought you…
We’re organizing a next round of RailsBridge workshops, for January, February and March of 2013! You can make more workshops happen! 1. If you have space to host a workshop, and they’re able to host in in the first part…