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Moving to Middleman
Things are a-changing here at jeriwieringa.com. While I have been a WordPress user for many years, it is time for a change. As I learn more about the web and about creating sites for long-term management, I have become convinced that simple is a virtue on the web. And database-driven sites are complex.
2013
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Bringing Rails Girls to the Digital Humanities
Last fall I attended Rails Girls DC, a one day workshop that introduces women to programming using Ruby on Rails. It was a wonderful event and I learned a lot. But I also left inspired to bring this sort of event to the Digital Humanities! We too have a gender gap and need to support women interested in the coding side the field.
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Intro to Rails Girls for HASTAC 2013
This is a draft of a lightening talk I will be giving a HASTAC 2013 on Rails Girls, a seminar popular around the world for introducing women to programming in Ruby on Rails.
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Review of HERB: Social History for Every Classroom
Review of HERB: Social History for Every Classroom, a product of the American Social History Project and the Center for Learning and Media at CUNY.
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Social Gospel and Missions
Gender and the Social Gospel, Wendy Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford, eds.
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Short Tutorial: Cleaning up downloaded files
So you used wget or Python to pull down a collection of files from the web. Excellent! But in looking through your loot, you notice that a number of the files are oddly small and, on further examination, find that they are functionally empty. How do you clean up your collection of files quickly?
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Looking outside the Protestant bubble
Maureen Fitzgerald, Habits of Compassion
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Healings and Holiness, Pentacostals, the Black Baptist Church, Itinerant Women, and Spiritual Narratives
We are a bit eclectic this week.
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Slides from Text-Mining Presentation
Bit short since I was trying to read off of the screen less. Down-side: slides are less helpful on their own.
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Short Tutorial: Cleaning up downloaded files (draft)
So you used wget or Python to pull down a collection of files from the web. Excellent! But in looking through your loot, you notice that a number of the files are oddly small and, on further examination, find that they are functionally empty. How do you clean up your collection of files quickly?