i had to make a really hard decision last week. tl;dr – i have decided to leave red hat and go back to booz allen / SPARC. when i took my position at red hat 6 months ago, i had never worked from home full time before. i also knew that…
this week has been a complete 180 compared to last week. the plague that is HFMD ended. lucky for me, it ended the night before my red hat training began. no more blisters, no more ulcers, no more fever, no more crippling foot/hand pain, no more messed up face,…
i was fortunate enough this week to do some awesome things that i don’t normally have the opportunity to do. the first was on thursday. the charleston metro chamber of commerce held its annual cyber security conference. i’d never been until this year, oddly enough, and certainly never…
this weekend was sparc’s 3rd annual hackathon. i had been looking forward to this weekend since the last hackathon, 5 days before caylin was born, knowing good and well that i wouldn’t be pregnant for this one. to say i was pumped was the understatement of the century.…
i finally re-did this website. after 3 scrapped designs and several nights of staring at a blank canvas in photoshop, it happened. so glad that’s over with. i don’t hate it yet. we’ll see how long that lasts. also, i added a recipes section. while i enjoy…
the company i work for had their very first hackathon last year, and has since decided to make it an annual event. a bunch of teams of 1-3 people draw random ideas for an application to develop, and they spend a 10-hour day building the application for either android, iOS,…
i don’t even know where to start here. the list of reasons for this title is never-ending, it seems. this past week was SPARC’s second mobile hackathon. the first one was a 1-day hackathon with dozens of teams, sponsors, prizes, food… it was fantastic. it was my second…