My notes from the talk Robin Elliot, CIO at Foxtel gave at a Girl Geek Dinner. CIO of Foxtel for over 11 years. On a mission to encourage women to step up and apply for technical leadership roles. A leadership role is in your grasp and something you might find rewarding. Students don’t have a […]
Daphne Chong talked about a recent project. Usually been backend, but recently did a new an interesting site for twitter and the elections. First time looking at responsive design, found it really interesting. Example of the Sydney Morning Herald. As you make the view port smaller, you have to scroll. If you pre tent to […]
I’ve known Tammy a long time (we worked together in Minnesota!) so I know how amazing she is – and I was really happy she agreed to speak at the Girl Geek Dinner we hosted. I thought it was a really interesting talk, about how to support and create innovation. Tammy’s been in UX for […]
I was really excited for one of the network engineers to give a talk at Girl Geek Dinner. It’s easy to complain as a software engineer that people don’t appreciate what you do, but in networking that is actually true – people just complain when it goes wrong! I took a lot of notes, but […]
When I was doing my undergrad in Edinburgh, in around my second year, I was at a ceilidh, and a guy asked me out on a date. And I said, “sure”. Then, he asked my roommate if I was single, which was a little bizarre. And finally, he tried to “get to know me”. We […]
I’m super excited that I’ve been asked to speak at the next Girl Geek Dinner. I have a couple of talks prepared and so the plan is to modify one of them – the underlying theme to everything I’ve been talking about (and doing) lately is about how technology is changing things, and how can […]