{"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":"

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<\/a> that introduce Ruby and Ruby on Rails to women interested in the technology and hopefully, a career in software development. <\/p>\n

Bianca Rodrigues<\/a> provides a nice, brief description of the RailsBridge NYC workshop June 6th.<\/p>\n

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. (read the entire post)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a large body of research and writing (including my own paper) on the fact that women are drastically under-represented in software development disproportionate to other careers in science and technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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’s eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t