Our jam-packed journey – which now features a large, diverse, and expanding cast of characters as well as a growing list of workforce, educational and community development projects – officially began on June 9, 2016, when I handed a paper form to register a NYS non for profit corporation across a glass divider and into the hands of a government...
August was a month of institution building, planning, and everybody’s family time. Thanks to all of you who have signed up for our mailing list, taken the student survey or the employer survey, or attended one of our events. You are all part of the ecosystem that will start to take shape, beginning in September, and we go into action. For...
Today’s Albany Business Review featured a series of articles about the shortage of coders and what it means for our economy. This Sunny Day On The State Capitol Steps pic of Annmarie and me went with the headline “Finding Albany’s Coders.” The content is behind the paywall for subscribers but if you are a subscriber to the Albany Business Review...
TechCrunch is the best known online publisher of industry news for the software industry, and for tech in general. If you want to work in software or tech – to be part of the culture – make a habit of following the news on TechCrunch. Sharing a piece published today about...
Why is the rubber ducky a symbol of the software workplace? Because programming is problem solving, and sometimes, if we just have someone to listen to us talk about the problem, we can hear ourselves speak the answer. Even if that ‘someone’ is a rubber ducky. ...
One answer: start where you are, keep an open mind, and keep trying new ways to learn until you get the hang of it. You will need access to a computer and internet. It is usually helpful to have support from someone who is further along than you – a mentor, buddy, or instructor. Most libraries have books that teach...
How did this Albany Can Code thing start? Long story with lots of people and parts. One part is: the piece about being a grassroots organization aiming to get non-traditional talent into the pipeline for software careers. We didn’t invent that. Here are some of our sources of inspiration. There’s Code Louisville, organized by the workforce development board...
