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).

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.

Yesterday I attended a Tech Conference, Women Techmakers Madrid and it was a wonderful event. I loved the Art and Technology talks from Marta Verde and Esther Borao and I am now an absolute fan of Laura Lacarra, her talk about Comfort Zone should be seen by any women in Tech. Moreover, the talk was so funny!

Yesterday I did my very first talk in a technical conference, T3chFest, and it has been a very challenging experience.

One day you decide you want to improve in what you do for a living. You start thinking about what you want to learn and you organize your learning program in a visual way.

Last weeks I have realized that I am focus now on improving in my career, which is great. But how did I get here?

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.

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

After organizing the learning Front-end development project, I am going to start learning about Preprocessors (Sass for CSS and Jade or HAML for HTML), Postprocessors (PostCSS) and automatic workflow (with Gulp or Grunt):

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.

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:

When I saw that the Call for papers for Codemotion Madrid 2016 process was open, I thought that I could explain my journey to becoming a Front-end developer because it can be useful for others.

2 weeks ago I wrote a post about my first year as a Frontend Developer. At the end of the post I wrote my goals from now on:

Last Friday I watched “Divergent” on TV and only 5 days later I was living the same experience!

In 10 days I do my first year as a Frontend Developer and although I like the change very much, it was not easy to take the first step.

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 :)

Brad Frost wrote recently an article about Frontend design and after read it I thought, yes, this is what I am! I am a Frontend Designer!

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.

For my next web design I want to do something cool, like a header effect on scroll. An example of what I want to achieve is something like this: Chris Simpson web page, so I looked for a tutorial to get some ideas to do it: How to Create a “Stay-On-Top” Menu with CSS3 and jQuery.

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.

Now that I have tried different jekyll themes, it is time to start one from scratch. I will use a very useful tutorial: Creating and Hosting a Personal Site on GitHub , that explains very well all the steps to do. The only thing that is different in my case is that I use Project Pages instead of User Pages, so I will specify here the differences.

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.