I was really excited to attend the inaugral SheHacks 2014 hackathon in Sydney, organised by the lovely women from Girl Geeks Sydney - Georgi Knox, Denise Fernandez, Kris Howard, Sera Prince McGill and Peggy Kuo. It was held at Google's offices in Pyrmont and was a fantastic event! (SheHacks was running in parallel in Melbourne too, so you … Continue reading Winners of She Hacks 2014!
Month: March 2014
Three days of Haskell
I spent three days up in Brisbane between March 17-19 on a course called "Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell". It was intense! The course was run by Tony Morris & Mark Hibberd from NICTA, and Katie Miller from Red Hat. It was originally billed as Lambda Ladies, but it turns out there weren't quite enough … Continue reading Three days of Haskell
Angry Birds in CSS
I recreated an Angry Bird in CSS as an experiment to learn more front end styling. It has been tested on recent versions of Chrome and Firefox, but cross-browser compatibility wasn't really the goal - I wanted to try drawing shapes and learn more about CSS transformations. The code is on github, and you can … Continue reading Angry Birds in CSS
Finding a Memory Leak
This post originally appeared on the 7digital developer blog on 15th February 2011. It has been moved here for preservation. A few weeks ago, we launched the shiny, redesigned new 7digital.com to a beta audience. Unfortunately, we had a memory leak. The new site was hosted on the same set of hardware as a few other applications, and it … Continue reading Finding a Memory Leak
Managing Dependencies With TeamCity
This post originally appeared on the 7digital developer blog on 8th June 2011. It has been moved here for preservation. You can also use a newer TeamCity feature called Snapshot Dependencies for a cleaner way of managing dependent builds. We have recently switched to using TeamCity to manage the building and updating of our shared code at 7digital, which is great. … Continue reading Managing Dependencies With TeamCity
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