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Cohort One Capstone Projects

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Phew! It’s unbelievable that our first cohort of students is already a third of the way through their internships. It’s been two months since the students have been in class, but we’ve been so heads down that the time has flown.  Better late than never, we’d…

Ada is Hiring!

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Love writing code? Want to help others? Join Ada Developers Academy to help women prepare for software development careers. Ada Developers Academy is seeking instructors to teach our 24-week intensive programming training course. We’re looking for part-time, contract, and guest instructors, so if you’ve got…

Ada Apps at Code for Seattle

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Last night, four Ada students presented their capstone projects (which featured civic data) to Code for Seattle: http://wherecanipark.in/seattle Our app, Seattle Street Parking, is a resource for anyone who has ever stood in front of 6 different parking signs trying to decipher where they can park….

H is for Hstore

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Using Postgres, like, for Real writting by Hsing-Hui, Ada student. Read the original post on her blog. The vast majority of Rails apps we build are hosted on Heroku, which uses PostgreSQL to store database tables. Since starting a new project by running rails new defaults to…

Hemiola of the week – PGP GPG

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written by Sue, current Ada student. Read the original post on her blog. As a private communications enthusiast, I hosted my very own PGP keysigning party. Beforehand, I shared with my fellow Adies how to generate their keypairs. The conference room surged with entropy as…

Semantic UI is awesome – part 3

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this is part of a series from Ellen, a current Ada student. Read the whole series on her blog.  My love affair with Semantic-UI continues. It offers you so much control! A few weeks ago, we used Semantic-UI heavily in our project about responsive, mobile-first…