Monthly Archives: January 2009

She’s Geeky – Install Drupal on your Mac

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Liz Henry

In this session we talked about Drupal in general, and a few people, including Margaret Rosas from Santa Cruz Geeks and CrystalMarie, got it installed and running. I have to apologize for being a bit incoherent; I was tired and … Continue reading →

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She’s Geeky – Show and Tell Your Dev Env session

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Liz Henry

We had a session to talk about what tools, languages, and platforms we use for software and web development. I started off by trying to list all the tools I use for work for development. Then other people stood up … Continue reading →

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She’s Geeky – Session on gaming

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Liz Henry

There are some hard core gamers here, about 10 women, a lot of them gamers for many years. STories of AFT, All Female Tournament, Female Fragfest 99, women playing for years with male online identities to avoid harassment and then … Continue reading →

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Cleaning up urls with awk

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Liz Henry

Here’s my stupid awk trick of the day: using the field separator option to mess with URLs. I spent something like an hour trying to write regular expressions and then reading other people’s solutions to cleaning up urls from log … Continue reading →

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She’s Geeky conference this weekend in Mountain View

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Liz Henry

This Friday and Saturday I’m going to the She’s Geeky conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Take a look at the proposed topics and at the list of women coming to the conference! It was a great … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing Cheney’s De-Inaugural Wheelchair

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Liz Henry

When I heard that Dick Cheney had pulled a muscle and was going to be attending the inauguration in a wheelchair, I was filled with deadly fascination. How would that play out? Would the inaugural ceremonies be even remotely accessible? … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Drupal 4.7 to 5.14

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Liz Henry

I have been working on upgrading a site from Drupal 4.7, which is unsupported, to Drupal 5.14. I am somewhat familiar with Drupal as a blogger, user, and administrator, but wasn’t sure what it would take to upgrade a large … Continue reading →

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Cooperative Discardia!

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Liz Henry

You can see the floor in my living room and office now! Minnie came over to my house last week and helped clean and organize. Mostly, we went through stacks of papers. About 20 grocery bags of recycling, trash, and … Continue reading →

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