Meaningful Milestone
Last night, Walkstarter, the school walkathon fundraising platform I created, achieved a meaningful milestone -- $250,000 in aggregate funding for schools. This is so awesome. It's also very...
Career Girls
A friend shared this delightful site recently: http://www.careergirls.org/ If you have a daughter and want to help her see that she can be anything that she dreams of being,...
CoderDojo “Interactive Web” Session 5
After a whirlwind five weeks, last night was the last session of the CoderDojo "Interactive Web" series of classes. The sustained effort of developing the content for each...
Code For India Hackathon
For the third time, my daughter and I teamed-up for a Hackathon. This time it was at Google for the "Code For India" Hackathon. The goal of the...
CoderDojo “Interactive Web” Session 1
Yesterday was the first session of a new series I am teaching. Organized by CoderDojo, the session was geared towards kids who have prior HTML experience. Through the...
Mojio-Hertz Hackathon
My daughter and I teamed-up at the Mojio/Hertz Hackathon at NestGSV Silicon Valley yesterday. Our app -- GoodGaadi -- was the winner of the Social category. It uses real-time telematics to...
Microsoft Big Data Hackathon
My daughter made her hackathon debut at Microsoft’s "Big Data Hackathon" yesterday+today. We used San Francisco parking meter data, map-reduced it with Hadoop and created Meterzilla — a...
Facebook/Parse Mobile Hackathon
My team's app "HiveHere" won third place at the Facebook/Parse Mobile Dev Day Hackathon. Wooohoooo!!! HiveHere is an app that uses Bluetooth Low-energy to automatically match persons with...
SVCC Talk: Real-world AngularJS
My Silicon Valley Code Camp 2013 talk was "Real-world AngularJS." Here is the session abstract: AngularJS is an Open Source Javascript framework from Google that makes it very...
User Interface Lessons I Learned From Star Trek
Here's an Ignite presentation I gave at DNN World in Orlando. I had fun preparing for the talk and added a touch of style by presenting in Star...