By Deborah Jackson (Founder & CEO, JumpThru) The Hamptons Hackathon for Humanity, or #GDIHHH on Twitter, was not your typical hackathon. The location was unique —- in South Hampton, New York two miles from the Atlantic Ocean. The food was better -— instead of...
By Sophia Perl (Producer, PicPredict) A fellow iOS developer buddy of mine told me about iOSDevCamp, so I decided to register and check it out. The hackathon follows a similar format of a Startup Weekend: Friday night –- networking, idea pitches, some teams form....
By Samantha John (Engineer, Pivotal Labs) A few months ago, I attended the TechCrunch hackathon in NYC. I expected an intense all-night session where programmers would crank out crazy amounts of code at top speed. As it turned out, my assumptions were far off from...
By Esther Nam (Co-Organizer, PyLadies) The Los Angeles PyLadies are continuing their summer series of hackathons with a Django-themed day sponsored by Mahalo, in partnership with the LA Django Meetup Group. The Django web framework is a great way to learn Python while...
By Audrey Roy (Co-Founder, Cartwheel Web) After a hugely successful Beginner’s Python Workshop in May, the PyLadies were inspired to keep the momentum going for those excited about learning Python and becoming a part of the local dev community. Last week, the...