Books are a great way to level up your skills; so let’s get together and talk about the books we’re reading, share insights that we’ve gleaned, and maybe pick up a new read! This is a text chat in the #_community-events channel.
Freelancing provides an opportunity to explore new skills while picking up some extra cash. This month we’ll discuss how to manage your time while freelancing; balancing customer development with delivery; and having a life.
Books are a great way to level up your skills; so let’s get together and talk about the books we’re reading, share insights that we’ve gleaned, and maybe pick up a new read! This is a text chat in the #_community-events channel.
Freelancing provides an opportunity to explore new skills or improve existing ones in a new context while picking up some extra cash. This month we’ll discuss how to bid a project; covering gathering information on the project, pricing, building a formal statement of work, and presenting your bid to clients.
Books are a great way to level up your skills; so let’s get together and talk about the books we’re reading, share insights that we’ve gleaned, and maybe pick up a new read! This is a text chat in the #_community-events channel.
Books are a great way to level up your skills; so let’s get together and talk about the books we’re reading, share insights that we’ve gleaned, and maybe pick up a new read! This is a text chat in the #_community-events channel.
For our next Mob Programming adventure, we’re going to try and work through adding user registration and log in to an express.js app!
For our next Mob Programming adventure, we’re going to try and work through adding payment processing to an express.js app!
We’re hosting a distributed mob programming session! We’ll be using VNC for screen and keyboard/mouse sharing; and may try streaming the session on Twitch. If you’d like to participate; make sure you’ve joined the community.
We’ll be discussing how to improve tech hiring in this week’s community Slack conversation.
We’ll be discussing jobseeker do’s and don’ts in the next community Slack conversation.
This week, we’re inviting community members with experience with running apprenticeship programs to talk about it and answer questions from those who are curious.
We’ll be talking about learning new programming languages in this week’s community Slack discussion.
This week, Pat Maddox will be our featured AMA guest. The main topic will be, “How junior Rails developers can drop ‘junior’ from the job title and start seeing fatter paychecks.”
We’ll be talking about improving as a mentor in this week’s community Slack conversation.
Our next Ask-Me-Anything guest is Rebecca Miller-Webster.
We’re changing up our format. Instead of doing Twitter chats every other week, we’ll be hosting themed discussions among members in our #_community-events Slack channel.
This AMA was a treat: Aki Braun and Blithe Rocher answered questions about working as programmers for political campaigns to kick off the American election season.
Our next Twitter chat will address the topic of “changing careers.”
Tiffany Mikell spoke with the community about remote work and learning, and being a self-taught developer.
Members discussed the value of a college degree, especially for programming jobs. Here’s the Storify of the chat.
Alex Harms had some real talk with the community about vulnerability, making time for what’s important and recovering from a blow to one’s confidence.
Community members talked about the challenges self-taught workers face, as well as finding mentors and learning new skills during our Twitter chat on getting from self-taught to employed.
Lynn Cyrin answered questions about the social network she’s building, and how she stays motivated in social justice work.
Kronda Adair spoke to the Apprenticeship Community about managing clients and running her business effectively.
Community members shared the pros and cons of working remotely in this Twitter chat. Here’s the Storify of the conversation.
Lanette Creamer shared her extensive passion and experience with software testing during her AMA with the Apprenticeship Community.
We had lots of chatter about senior contributors. Here’s our Storify of the tweets.
Michael (Doc) Norton spoke with the Apprenticeship Community about workplace culture for the engineering teams at Groupon, as well as hiring and retaining employees.
We had a great Twitter chat about empathy. Thanks to community member @GeekOnCoffee for the topic suggestion. Here’s the Storify of the chat.
Coraline Ada Ehmke is a speaker, author, teacher, open source advocate, and technologist with 20 years of experience in developing apps for the web. As a founding member of LGBTech, CultureOffset.org and and contributor-covenant.org, she works diligently to promote diversity and inclusivity in the tech industry. Her current interests include refactoring, code analytics, and artificial intelligence.
Our second #Apprenticeship Twitter chat featured “effective mentorship.” We’ve Storified the conversation.
Sarah Mei took more than an hour of her time to answer questions from the Apprenticeship Community in our Slack channel.
We had a lovely twitter chat with some community members! We’ve Storified the notes