It's not technically my official job, but I do some "developer-esque" relations for the ABC's Digital Network division. I started doing it because I like it, and it's been very educational. To clarify, the phrase "developer relations" could be interpreted in a couple of ways: Your company has products or services it sells, and you're trying to help people in the … Continue reading “Developer-esque” relations
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Metro: the ABC’s new Media Transcoding Pipeline
In December last year, the ABC launched a new video encoding system called Metro ("Media Transcoder"), which converts various sources of media into a standardised format for iview. It's been a fantastic project for the ABC's Digital Network division - we've built a cheap, scalable, cloud-based solution that we can customise to suit our specific … Continue reading Metro: the ABC’s new Media Transcoding Pipeline
Classy Coding
So, this happened yesterday: Classy Coding! It was one of Women Who Code's October events with wine, cheese, pastries and a bunch of amazing women working on their own projects, just hanging out and saying hello. This photo made my day 😀
Running Women Who Code
I've helped to run Women Who Code Sydney for about a year (along with Lucy Bain and Peggy Kuo), and it's been a blast. We organise practical hands-on workshops for a variety of technology like Arduino, Golang, Sass, Scala and Swift. Participants spend about 1.5-2 hours working through a tutorial or problem set on their laptops, and can ask … Continue reading Running Women Who Code
Review of Coursera’s Algorithms Part I by Princeton
This is the first in a series of two posts about a study group I organised for learning Algorithms & Data Structures. This post focuses on the content of the course, which is Princeton's Algorithms I on Coursera. The course covers a variety of data structures and searching and sorting algorithms from a programmatic implementation angle (as opposed to … Continue reading Review of Coursera’s Algorithms Part I by Princeton
Study Group: Algorithms & Data Structures
Since doing a Javascript study group last year, I've been keen to organise a Data Structures & Algorithms study group (partly to brush up on interviewing). I'm pleased to announce that the study group will start January 28th. If you're interested and live in Sydney, read on. What will I learn? We will be doing the Algorithms … Continue reading Study Group: Algorithms & Data Structures
Hello, Arduino
Last September, Women Who Code Sydney ran a Learn Arduino event. I'm generally not very keen on hardware, so I hadn't bothered to investigate Arduino in depth, but this blinking green light from the workshop was one of the most exciting things I'd seen in ages. It was programming in physical form: I'd written the code, sent it to … Continue reading Hello, Arduino
Code Sydney – a Javascript study group
I've done quite a few random side projects using Javascript, but I've never learned it "properly", and I've always wanted to. In a nice coincidence, a fellow geek Lucy Bain started a Javascript study group a couple of months ago called Code Sydney, which uses the Odin Project's course material - so of course I signed up. Course Content I've really … Continue reading Code Sydney – a Javascript study group
GovHack 2014
GovHack, held on July 11-13, was a fun experience. It's been running for many years, but it was the first time I'd been involved, and the format is quite different compared to other hackathons. Firstly, it's huge: over a thousand hackers get together in 11 cities around Australia, and the timing is all coordinated so that everyone starts and … Continue reading GovHack 2014
Fun With Public Transport Data
I am a transport nerd, and a map nerd, as evidenced by all the previous hackathons I seem to do involving maps. Thus, when I discovered that Sydney’s public transport system data is available to download, it seemed only logical that I should involve a map somewhere. The result is a map to show you where … Continue reading Fun With Public Transport Data
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