November 11, 2010 7:00 PM - 40 attended

WTF Web Lecture & Lab, hosted by Etsy

Tired of techies throwing around so many acronyms it makes your head spin?
Want to build a cool website, but can't decide whether to use RoR, PHP, MySQL, WTF, or BBQ?
Maybe you bridged the gap and heard about a great new tool that makes building websites easy, but keep running into an internet radio site when you try to Google it? (Tricked you! That's Jango, but you're looking for Django.)

We'll gather to go over the basics of a web technology stack (teaching all the acronyms that power a website, for example) and accept questions from the audience about those technologies and any other mysterious terms they may have heard in tech circles.

We'll also have an open lab (hackathon, if you will, which just means people at computers in a room together) where knowledgable developers can help answer general tech questions or help you through any rough spots in your own projects.

Thanks to Etsy for generously hosting this event!

  • Linda Liukas
    Linda Liukas

    Such a fun idea! We're doing a similar thing for railsgirls.com, there's going to be a session called Speak Geek where you can check all those acronyms mean without feeling outsmarted.

    Posted November 16, 2010 at 2:09 PM
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