Rails Girls presentation

Transcript

1. Rails & Girls a.k.a how to get girls excited about

   technology Friday, December 2, 11

2. Not a question of statistics. But of perspective. Friday, December

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3. 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

4. 4 Don’t just like or reblog. Curation is cool, but

   even cooler is creating. Friday, December 2, 11

5. 5 My story. Madly in love with Al Gore in

   2001. In Finland. Friday, December 2, 11

6. 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

7. Hands-on, minds-on. 3 events, 400 applicants, 100 participants, 20+ apps

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8. Small groups, quick lectures A web application from concept to

   code Friday, December 2, 11

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13. Boys invited too. (Make something so cool boys want to

    be part of it) Friday, December 2, 11

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15. Not lonely, not mathematical - almost like learning a new

    language Friday, December 2, 11

16. Koodi on lukutaitoa. Timissä monia rooleja. Code is literacy And

    valuable wherever you work. Friday, December 2, 11

17. Speak Geek. Or how to teach the language of web

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19. 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

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21. HTML AJAX CSS RUBY, PYTHON, PHP, SCALA MYSQL, MONGODB RUBY

    ON RAILS, DJANGO, CAKEPHP, JETTY , LIFT…. XML JAVASCRIP DOM UNICORN Friday, December 2, 11

22. 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

23. 23 PHP + Matlab MySQL PostgeSQL Friday, December 2, 11

24. 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

25. 25 MongoDB and PostresSQL Nginx + HAProxy Lift Scala Friday,

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26. R #1 HTML/CSS #2 JQUERY #3 Unicorn Friday, December 2,

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27. HTML CSS Friday, December 2, 11

28. HTML AJAX CSS XML JAVASCRIP DOM Friday, December 2, 11

29. UNICORN Friday, December 2, 11

30. 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

31. 5 minutes. Game on! Friday, December 2, 11

32. Internet is copy-paste And full of building blocks. Googling encouraged!

    Friday, December 2, 11

33. Building web apps is fun but also creative and personal,

    craftmanship of modern day. Friday, December 2, 11

34. 34 More? You bet. Teamtreehouse.com, Codeacademy.com, Codeschool.com Tryruby.com and dontfeartheinternet.com

    Friday, December 2, 11

35. “Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science

    is a liberal art.” – Steve Jobs Friday, December 2, 11

36. 36 What next? Berlin, Tallinn, Amsterdam, New York.. Local chapters:

    coaches, girls & gems Android, WP, iOS, Coffeescript, HTML5, APIt? Friday, December 2, 11

37. 37 Whole new culture of software development. And a heroine

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

38. Thank you! railsgirls.com [email protected] 38 Friday, December 2, 11