{"id":2949,"date":"2013-06-13T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2013-06-13T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:21:47","slug":"railsbridge-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/railsbridge-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"RailsBridge NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a coder and hiring manager for Rails developers. I am father of a daughter who aspires to a career in science and technology. For both reasons, I am grateful that there are programs like <a href=\"http:\/\/workshops.railsbridge.org\" title=\"RailsBridge\" target=\"_blank\">RailsBridge<\/a> that introduce Ruby and Ruby on Rails to women interested in the technology and hopefully, a career in software development. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.endpoint.com\/2013\/06\/railsbridge-nyc.html\">Bianca Rodrigues<\/a> provides a nice, brief description of the RailsBridge NYC workshop June 6th.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was great to meet other newbie Ruby developers who were going through some of the same beginner pains that I was. The workshop was a positive experience, and gave me the push I periodically need to keep myself immersed in technology. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.endpoint.com\/2013\/06\/railsbridge-nyc.html\">(read the entire post)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a large body of research and writing (including my own paper) on the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/slide-notes-agile-2012-agile-values-innovation-shortage-women-developers-2\/\">women are drastically under-represented in software development disproportionate to other careers in science and technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an experienced developer, please consider volunteering. I participated as a TA and it really only took two evenings and one full day of my time to be of use to this great program. The experience of coaching is both a joy and a refreshing opportunity to see what you do through other people&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a coder and hiring manager for Rails developers. I am father of a daughter who aspires to a career in science and technology. For both reasons, I am grateful that there are programs like RailsBridge that introduce Ruby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/railsbridge-nyc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"If you are an experienced developer, please consider volunteering for RailsBridge.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[104,491,881,862],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-development","tag-developers","tag-ruby-on-rails","tag-software-development","tag-women-in-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Agile-Values-Innovation-and-the-Shortage-of-Women-Software-Developers.051.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}