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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…

Displaying Popups on Mouse Hover with jQuery

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by Galina Yermicheva, cohort 1 student. Read the original on her blog. A part of Ada is attending networking events to get to know the Seattle tech community better. I thought it would be great if my classmates could add events like this to a…