The District Nerd

02/08/2023

I can't believe it is happening!

Join me on Saturday, March 18th, 2023, at the Ga***rd Rockies Resort & Convention Center, to hear "Flying High: The Women of Aerospace Cybersecurity" presented by the Aerospace Village at the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys) Annual Conference. Panelists Jen Miosi from United Airlines, Teresa Merklin from Lockheed Martin, Erin M. Miller from Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC), and moderator Adrienne McCloud from the Aerospace Village will discuss the challenges facing aerospace cybersecurity and how attendees can help tackle those issues.

Seats are limited. Register on WHOVA Event App to save your seat.

05/31/2019

I'm excited to share a first over at The District Nerd - a guest blog post by Shay Over Wine. Shay put together this awesome piece about putting together a tasting in 3 simple steps. Yep, you read that right. With Shay's 3 steps, anyone on any budget can host their own wine tasting.
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04/23/2019

Ive been meaning to share this article for awhile. It dosent go into specifics about what a developer should do, instead it outlines theories. Either way it is something that we should consider when developing apps.

Here are five principles that developers should keep in mind to create more secure apps

04/09/2019

I love the women over at smnty/Stuff Mom Never Told You.

Along with the rise of craft beer has come the revival of women brewmasters who challenge the stereotype of beer as a man's drink. Learn more about the ancient history and return of women to craft beer brewing in this classic episode.

03/18/2019

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03/02/2019

To say that Washington, D.C. has a lot of history would be an understatement. But you probably don't know much about the Washington Metro's area contribution to American culture. Mr. Beck has compiled an amazing summary of the areas rich history enough to satisfy any historian or beer drinker.

Garret Beck's Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington D.C. breaks down the long complicated history between beer and Washington, D.C.

03/01/2019

When I decided to learn the first thing I did was an online search for options. And wow the options for learning a language was overwhelming with programs ranging in prices and duration. In the end, I decided to try Codecademy and SoloLean. Check out my review to learn more about my experience.

A review of using the mobile app SoloLearn and the desktop platform Codeacademy to learn the basics of Python programming.

02/18/2019

Often enough, Wilkes’s code didn’t produce the result she wanted. So she had to pore over her lines of code, trying to deduce her mistake, stepping through each line in her head and envisioning how the machine would execute it — turning her mind, as it were, into the computer. Then she would rewrite the program. The capacity of most computers at the time was quite limited; the IBM 704 could handle only about 4,000 “words” of code in its memory. A good programmer was concise and elegant and never wasted a word. They were poets of bits. “It was like working logic puzzles — big, complicated logic puzzles,” Wilkes says. “I still have a very picky, precise mind, to a fault. I notice pictures that are crooked on the wall.”

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

02/13/2019

I have no words. ...

[EDIT (2/12/19 10:21am): Since posting this piece, Bill Metzger has officially responded, giving the old “I’m sorry you were offended” non-apology and saying that the piece was a …

01/31/2019

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01/31/2019

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