Now with Users, Permissions and Custom Query Filters ReQLPro is a desktop RethinkDB GUI Client for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. If you’re not sure what RethinkDB is, check out their website to learn more about what makes it “the open-source database for the realtime web.” Download ReQLPro The team at Code Hangar is excited to announce the release of ReQLPro version 0.1.0! This is an exciting release for us because it’s been a long time coming. The last ReQLPro release was about 6 months ago. Why did it take so long time for us...
I led a workshop recently on product development at an event in Orlando, FL called Make Day. The purpose of the event was to bring members of the community together to learn techniques in designing and building with a team, while also working toward the common purpose of building solutions to make Orlando the best city for women in tech. This post will include selected slides from my presentation as well as my own commentary. Click here to view the full presentation. My workshop was one of two that day, following the Design Ideation Workshop (slides here). So, I focused...
Orlando Lady Developers has announced an upcoming 'Make Day', an exciting two-part workshop in which coders and creators will develop their abilities in design, ideation and product development while contributing to solutions that help women achieve their goals in the software and technology industry. The situation is challenging; by 2020 there will be 1.4 million available jobs in computing-related fields, but the United States is on pace to fill only 29 percent of them with computer science graduates. Countless studies have shown the importance and benefits to approaching problems with diverse teams, yet at current rates only 3 percent...
A quick and efficient process to go from mockup to HTML & CSS. As a frontend developer for over 7 years, I've had the pleasure of working in situations where I had no choice but to build things as fast as possible. Over time I developed a process that allowed me to move quickly from mockup to code, and that process is what I will be sharing in this post. I hope some of what I've learned to speed up my development will be helpful to you. Consider the following layout. How do you convert a layout like the one...
I can’t believe it's finally happening! I am super excited that this Monday, June 13, 2016 Orlando’s FIRST EVER Girls Who Code Club Program begins! The initiative was announced in November last year at WeVENTURE’s Rengades and Rebels: Women and Tech event, and 7 months later our first week-long, all-day, summer program will bring coding skills and Computer Science education to eighteen middle school and high school girls in Central Florida! Girls Who Code is a national non-profit organization, moving into its fourth year of working to close the gender gap in technology. What started as 20...
Cassandra Wilcox is a full-stack JavaScript developer, Cofounder at Code Hangar Inc., Instructor at Girls Who Code, JavaScript Instructor at Skillcrush, and Organizer of Orlando LadyDevs