Gimp for developers

This week I had to manipulate some images at work and I use normally GIMP for that. The thing is, I did a GIMP course a while ago and the only functionality that I remember well is the Clone functionality (you clone a region in another part of the picture).

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Being a volunteer in Adalab

I learned about the Adalab program in twitter and I started to be curious about it. Adalab is a program to help women to become programmers. The program includes a front-end course, personal development classes and an internship in a company. Moreover, each woman will have a female mentor to help her to start in the tech sector.

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Learning Sass

I am starting the learning process with Sass and I have decided to apply the concepts after learning PostCSS, automating the compilation to css with Gulp.

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Challenges while learning

After learning the basics of responsive web design back in 2014, I did some web designs to practice what I learnt. I realized that I wanted to learn also graphic design to do my own designs from scratch, so I did some online courses:

  • Creative course
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How to make time for a side project

After organizing a little and analyze what I want to learn to improve in Front-end development, it comes a question to my mind: How to get time for this? This learning process is like a side project, so I have researched in Internet to get some ideas.

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Learn HTML & CSS

I learnt the basis of HTML5 & CSS2-CSS3 in a course in 2013/2014, but you can do it from scratch with a lot of online resources. I found a very good article From zero to Front-end hero where it explains how to start and keep learning HTML & CSS:

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Women techmakers Madrid 2016

Today I went to the Women Techmakers Madrid and it was an overdose of Iocain for me, in a possitive way, of course. Iocain? To understand the meaning, you should have watched Teresa de la Torre’s talk, but I will explain a little bit later :)

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Women in tech

One month ago I went to the first meeting of a new Meetup group in Madrid: “Ada Code Group”, for women developers that want to improve their skills and spread their knowledge. In that meeting, a girl, Laura Morillo, who works with different organizations to make visible the role of women in tech, told us about a new event, “Women Techmakers Madrid 2016” and she encourages us to present a talk in the Call for Papers. I didn’t do any talk until now, but I presented one, about creating a Portfolio with Jekyll and Github Pages.

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Make a logo with Inkscape

I am not a graphic designer, but I would like to add my own images to the web page I’m going to do. Some months ago I learnt the basics of Inkscape and GIMP, the free software alternatives to Illustrator and Photoshop, so now it’s time to use them for real.

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Tutorials for GitHub pages

After doing my first 2 personal websites, I wanted to put them together in a web page. Then, people in my company talked about GitHub pages to host web pages and I thought that it would be a good idea to learn more about it.

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