Christina Wood
Christina Wood is a freelance writer living in North Carolina. She blogs at GeekGirlfriends.com.
Today is a good day for one guy working in IT
Microsoft announced that it has finally sorted through a world of candidates and chosen one of its own to lead the company out of the woods and into the cloud. There is a lot of talk about what choosing from within will mean for...
State of California tells code schools to cease and desist
In my post “Where Women Learn to Code” I extolled the virtues of friends, boyfriends, and husbands who encourage the women in their lives to consider a future in IT and the code academy Hackbright, that specializes in teaching women...
Working from the couch
At some point in every job, getting to the job – unless you are very lucky – becomes a part of the day you would rather do without. You start calculating what else you might have done with the time spent sitting on a train or watching...
Can you reverse engineer your job search to get better perks?
Thinking about how to advance your career? Should you apply at Google? Join a start up? Work someplace that offers a better grade of barbecue sauce and beer? Apparently – if you are an “A level person” – all of that should come to you...
Where women learn to code
Often, when I ask people how they got started in IT, they tell a story from childhood. Dad gave them a hammer instead of doll. Mom was a scientist. Someone brought home a computer. This has spawned an industry of toys designed to...
Does your career need a power-up?
Sometimes you come to a moment in your career when you feel stuck. You can’t move forward. Backward is no longer an option. You need some sort of power-up to get you to the next level. But that power up is hard to unlock. Do you take...
IT needs all types. Creative, nerdy, and everything in between
I sat down last week at CES to chat with Qualcomm's Liat Ben-Zur about the Internet of things and how our appliances, cars, phones, toys, TVs, locks, lights, and security system are beginning to wake up and talk to each other so that...
Plan your dive. Dive your plan
When I learned to SCUBA dive, (a long time ago) my instructor believed firmly in the axiom, “Plan your dive. Dive your plan.” It is a generally accepted truth that when you go into a wild environment, you don’t know what to expect and...
The myth of the useless degree
If all the work of the future is in high tech, it stands to reason that your non-technical degree – in the liberal arts, fine arts, or a non-technical science – will leave you out of that future, right? Nope. That’s a myth.
Code.org gets 15 million students in 170 countries to code
When a bunch of geeks who know how wield a camera, brandish social media, and reach the eyeballs of the populous, harness their power to get a message out in order to exact positive change in a short period of time.
Shouldn't we be teaching kids to code?
How many futures do you think Ali Partovi, Hadi Partovi, and Code.org changed with the Hour of Code campaign? I’m guessing quite a few.
Dream jobs: What inspired your IT career?
Everyone has a story about what got them interested in technology and a career in IT. What's yours?
The (better) future of tech support
Right now, getting help when something unusual goes wrong is a frustrating experience for customers. They've come to stereotype the experience as waiting endlessly on hold, deciphering strangely cheerful foreign accents, humoring...