I was in a virtual panel discussion today in Ratoma, Guinea, West Africa. I joined Kolawole, Ousman, Kouame, and Chuck to discuss programming and the technology challenges that are unique to Africa....

I’ve been thinking about inclusion in tech events a lot lately. I grant pointing out any great talks is to accidentally exclude many more, but I must call out the excellent talk from MVP Summit “Let her Finish”, and a great Adventures in Angular episode where they discussed baking in diversity when planning events....

What have I done recently? I’ve been focusing on regional and national speaking opportunities and community outreach....

.blockquote-callout { clear: both; background-color: #f0db4f; border: 0; } It was my pleasure to present A Dozen JavaScript Libraries at vNext Phoenix this evening....

Wow, that was fun. I had the pleasure of training 174 people (42 in-person, 132 virtually) for an 8-hour session on Git....

It’s my pleasure to present “Welcome to Node” to the dotNet user group in Las Vegas on August 29, 2013....

I had a wonderful time attending SQL in the City London. It’s really great to see the new versions of the tools and exchange new ideas with friends....

It was my pleasure to present the follow-up to Thinking in Git, “Git, GitHub, and GitFlow” at the Phoenix Java Users’ Group last night....

It’s my pleasure to present Backbone.JS at this evening’s Phoenix JavaScript Meetup. Backbone is a great library for achieving separation of concerns in client-side code....

It was my pleasure to talk about version control systems: svn (subversion), hg (mercurial), and git at the NWVDNUG....