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Rails & Girls
a.k.a how to get girls excited about technology
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Not a question of statistics.
But of perspective.
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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.
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Don’t just like or reblog.
Curation is cool, but even cooler is creating.
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My story.
Madly in love with Al Gore in 2001. In Finland.
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First experience in software craftmanship.
(I grew up listening to Spice Girls and Girl Power. Girls - for me - is not
diminutive, but strong.)
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Hands-on, minds-on.
3 events, 400 applicants, 100 participants, 20+ apps
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Small groups, quick lectures
A web application from concept to code
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Boys invited too.
(Make something so cool boys want to be part of it)
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Not lonely, not mathematical
- almost like learning a new language
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Koodi on lukutaitoa.
Timissä monia rooleja.
Code is literacy
And valuable wherever you work.
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Speak Geek.
Or how to teach the language of web
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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.
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HTML
AJAX
CSS
RUBY, PYTHON, PHP, SCALA
MYSQL,
MONGODB
RUBY ON RAILS, DJANGO,
CAKEPHP, JETTY , LIFT….
XML
JAVASCRIP
DOM
UNICORN
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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. “
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PHP + Matlab
MySQL
PostgeSQL
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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).
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MongoDB and
PostresSQL
Nginx +
HAProxy
Lift
Scala
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R
#1 HTML/CSS
#2 JQUERY
#3 Unicorn
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HTML CSS
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HTML
AJAX
CSS
XML
JAVASCRIP
DOM
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UNICORN
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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
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5 minutes.
Game on!
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Internet is copy-paste
And full of building blocks. Googling encouraged!
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Building web apps is fun
but also creative and personal, craftmanship of modern day.
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More? You bet.
Teamtreehouse.com, Codeacademy.com, Codeschool.com
Tryruby.com and dontfeartheinternet.com
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“Learning to program teaches you how to think.
Computer science is a liberal art.” – Steve Jobs
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What next?
Berlin, Tallinn, Amsterdam, New York..
Local chapters: coaches, girls & gems
Android, WP, iOS, Coffeescript, HTML5, APIt?
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Whole new culture of software development.
And a heroine to match. Beware Pippi Longstrumps.
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