It’s always nice to have a friend who can help you out once in a while. It’s even nicer to have a friend who can help you out 24 hours a day, who never gets tired or bored or sick, who is focused 100% on helping you do what you need to do. Slackbots can be such friends for you. Setting up a slackbot is easy, and we will show you how to build your own helpful slackbot in 7 simple steps: Get your Slack API Key Add a New “Bot User” Setup Your Project Import Dependencies Handle...
When you first join a new dev team or contribute to a new open source project, getting started can be a little daunting. Often times, familiarizing yourself with an existing code base can feel like being thrown right into the deep end of a pool. Your team might give you a brief tour of the project, and you might have some background knowledge to put to use too, but you still won't really know your way around until you actually dig in for yourself. In this post I'll candidly describe my experience fixing my first bug in an existing project...
What role does immigration play in the technology community? In what ways can it be harmful? How can it be helpful? With the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, immigration has become one of the foremost issues in American politics today. His staunch anti-immigration stance has not been met with universal support from the technology community - in fact, the world’s largest tech companies - such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft - seem to think that immigration is good for them. When Trump issued an executive order banning all immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, 97...
From the earliest days of the internet, developers have gotten together in chat rooms and message boards and IRC channels to ask questions and get feedback on the projects they've been working on. The internet allows you to learn from other developers and pass your experience along, from anywhere in the world. Still, it is important for developers to plug in to their local community development scene, getting to know the developers in their city and tapping into the experience and opportunities that they provide. Here are five community resources that can help developers find opportunities to work and learn...
The NASA Space Apps Challenge, “the biggest hackathon in the universe”, is coming to Orlando for its third year in a row. To learn more about this event, Code Hangar sat down with Holly Akers, one of the event’s primary organizers. We set out to get her insights into what makes a hackathon successful and what makes the Space Apps Challenge unique. The Venue A hackathon is a gathering, and every gathering needs a good place to gather. The Space Apps Challenge will be held in the Guidewell Innovation Center, located down in the medical technology sector of Lake...
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Writer, Programmer, Brain Scientist, Unreconstituted Class Warrior