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Is anyone else sick of the diversity in tech talks?
Isn’t it ironic that the founder and organizer of Black Founders is saying that she’s sick of the diversity in tech talks? Here’s a couple of scenarios that’s happened over the past couple of weeks. - I participate in the Launch hackathon. As the hackathon is ending, the Launch conference begins and opens up with […]
Rails Testing Like A Boss: Part 1
February 19, 2013
Testing is a subject that is often talked about as a best practice in the Rails community. However, behind the scenes, many a Rubyist forego testing, using lack of time and “prototyping” as an excuse. The root cause is that a lot of Rubyist have bad habits that need to be broken, including myself. Two […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
Script for starting new rails projects
October 19, 2012
Tbl uses a script for starting new rails projects. After you run ‘rails new example -d=postgresql’, create a new file in the script folder of the new project. (don’t worry about an extension for the file) Add the contents to the new file Be sure to replace ‘replacemewithusername’ with the actually username. This is the […]
Posted in: Hacker Notes, Learning RoR
Managing Virtual Teams
September 17, 2012
(excerpt from Thunderbolt Labs Blog) The Thunderbolt Labs team is highly distributed and travels often. You can find us working at any given moment from San Francisco, Virginia, Maryland, PDX, Barcelona, Sweden, or in between at 38,000 feet. Our team works (and plays) better together than a lot of companies we know where everyone’s forced […]
Posted in: Co-Working, Thunderbolt Labs
Developers – Does typing speed matter?
August 24, 2012
This week pairing with Tammer Saleh has been pretty cool. Its a great opportunity and I’m learning a lot. My main reasons for joining the TBL team is to ramp up my developer skills. The first feedback from Tammer, after our pairing session was that I didn’t know how to type. Actually, he told me […]
Posted in: Journey to badass developer, Lessons learned
New Beginnings
August 6, 2012
I’m excited to announce that last week I joined the Thunderbolt Labs family. I’ve accepted a role as an apprentice and will be supporting operations, as well as ramping up to be a badass developer. Wait! What about Picturely? Picturely was a great project where I learned a lot. One of the goals of picturely […]
When Life Gets In The Way of Life
August 6, 2012
My blog posts have been quiet with intention. My main objective for blogging is to document my journey as an entrepreneur and developer for my personal use and for others who may have an interest. Its a rarity that I write about personal matters, however I could not return to the routine of blogging without […]
Posted in: Life Matters, Mother's Cancer Journey
I'm a developer and entrepreneur living in San Francisco. I co-founded Black Founders, an organization dedicated to the success of black entrepreneurs in tech. I'm also a known troublemaker at Thunderbolt Labs. Follow my rants at @hadiyahdotme on twitter.
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