Technical Blogging session at ElaConf 2016
This is probably going to be one of several blog posts related to ElaConf . It's a wonderful conference for empowering women in tech that took place in Philly for the second time recently. One of the breakout sessions at ElaConf was on Technical Blogging which was run by Vaidehi Joshi ( @vaidehijoshi ). Here are my takeaways from that session. We started off by reading Julia Evans' blog post on processes . Vaidehi asked us to take a few minutes to read it and discuss with a partner. Here are some things that stood out to us in the blog post: Conversational Matter of fact Formatted Code snippets Author's personality shows in the code comments Condensed scope, author links to external content for more research Good introduction to the topic even for a newbie We also took some time doing a fun exercise, with one of us pretending to be a student and the other a teacher. The teacher had to describe " opening a Facebook account to someone who has not used a...