Woman on Rails

Today I will tell you something about Web Summit. This was the second event I participated in Dublin at the end of October. How did I get there? Web Summit announced, they have 50 free tickets for women interested or related with technologies. So I filled and sent the form. A few days later I received an email with congratulations. I won ticket to Web Summit in Dublin. It was my first such big conference. Over 10 000 participants, 300 speakers, many workshops, 7 lecture halls and many start ups from different sectors and different countries…

I had the pleasure to be a part of two events in Dublin this week: Hack4good and Web Summit. Today I will focus on the first. What is Hack4good? It’s one day of coding in good cause. Programmers from different countries come to one place (this time in Dublin) and create applications for community. For example: How to give homeless people food to survive? How to fulfill the dreams of dying children? How to follow people carrier path after graduation? And many, many more…

In this week I was part of something special. There was RuPy conference in Budapest. What is RuPy? As it’s said on RuPy web page:

RuPy is a unique conference that brings together communities from different state-of-the-art programming languages > Ruby, > Python, > JavaScript, > Clojure and related technologies.

Firstly, what is Rails Girls? These are workshops for girls. They learn how write code in Ruby on Rails. During this two-days event they prepare environment and create first application in Rails. They work with coach in small groups. Secondly, what was Rails Girls for me? It was an amazing adventure. I have learned many things. I met so many people and also had lot of fun. Coding is not a boring thing. It is a pleasure, when you do this with right people, on the right time…

Let’s start blog’s adventure. Feel free to read!I think that my first post should be original and interesting, but also feminine. I hit on an idea to create recipe. Well, my cooking skills are none too good so the recipe will be short.Take a Ruby on Rails baking tin. Then add Ruby, HTML 5 and little piece of JavaScript into it. Mix all ingredients together and add CSS icing. Finally our new application is ready. Fast, easy, and with lot of fun.I would like to divide my blog entries to some categories…