Emerging Tech Conference Breakdown Part 2: Javascript Sucks and Adobe Dropped a Bomb

I swear, that’s what my notes say: Adobe dropped a bomb.  It was really late when I prodded the half asleep, half sloshy programmer to tell me more about the conference.  He probably slurred Adobe dropped the ball and my sleepy mind told my fingers to write dropped a bomb…which is so much more catchy.
Adobe [...]

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Emerging Tech Conference Breakdown Part 1: Surfing, The Secrets to Business Success, and Bloody Buzz Words

So it might be a little unfair for me to focus on THE BATTLE when it was probably such a small and insignificant part of the Emerging Technology Conference. Guess I’m showing my bloodthirsty, witchy part. Therefore I did make sure I asked my programmer about a few of the other talks he [...]

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Comparing Web Technologies to Hillary Clinton (and Other Fighting Words)

The programmer showed up at the hotel door after midnight sloshy and without his keycard.  I made him give me juicy tidbits through the door before letting him in (for fear he’d pass out on the bed and I’d be left with nothing to chitchat about here).
I tried to drag information about the Battle of [...]

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(Naughty) USB Toys for the Over-Educated

I wandered the campuses of Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania today while the programmer absorbed hours of technological debating and education.  I have a way of reducing all that higher learning to the tawdry.  I found this in a store right off campus.

Just what every programmer wants!  A beagle to hump their USB port!

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Day One of the Emerging Tech Conference in Windy Philadelphia

Let’s talk about goodies.
For y’all not on a conference circuit (be it for dental hygiene, African violet breeding, or all things computer and programming related), you may not know what goodies are. Goodies are the collection of things you typically get in a bag when you check in to your conference of choice. [...]

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Observing Programmers in their Natural Habitat

The programmer and I made it to Philly, where we froze our asses off last night looking for something to eat (where do all these University of Pennsylvania and Drexel students eat or is the dining hall food that good?). Miracle of miracles, the programmer woke up before noon and made it to the [...]

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Surprise Announcements from the Programmer (aka The Emerging Tech Conference)

Ahh, the exciting, spontaneous life of being married to a programmer. One minute you’re finished scheduling your week, then Wham!, he murmurs an offhand comment while squinting at his screen…leaving me blinking at my calender in horror and wondering if I have any whiteout left (because he mutters comments that tilt my world rather [...]

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The Programmer and Perfectionism

I read an article this morning about women and their quest for perfection. To me, this quest is unattainable (can we say Don Quixote but without the moral innocence) and frankly, why do we want to be perfect in all aspects of our lives? That and then the scientist part of me gets [...]

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