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• January 23, 2016

  What is Object-Oriented Programming?

  Configuration Management for BeginnersUsing Chef as an ExampleWho is this blog post meant for?This post is aimed at software engineers who have used configuration management software (especially Chef) without necessarily being comfortable with the...

• January 23, 2016

  What is Object-Oriented Programming?

  Object-oriented programming is the idea that data has its own identity and methods so it can do things for itself, instead of a workflow where functions do things to the data. The main goal here is delegation: you can tell an object what you want ...

• September 16, 2015

  Buzzwords, Quantifying the Unquantifiable, and Toxic Environments

  Diversity has become The Big Thing in tech. Everyone is talking about it. Companies releasing their diversity numbers, from IBM and Google to Slack. Here in PDX, a lot of tech companies have signed the Portland Diversity Pledge. People talk about ...

• April 15, 2015

  How to Support Diversity Advocates within Your Company

  Most people agree that tech needs to be less of a monoculture. So if you want to help fix that, great! More power to you. But I’ve heard a lot of frustrating stories lately from people in tech who are part of an underrepresented group, such as wom...