This is where my thoughts live — across time zones, industries, and identities. I’m Hadiyah: builder, investor, nonprofit leader, and global citizen currently living in Denmark with my family. I write about the things I’m learning as I move between the worlds of tech, capital, and community.
This weekend I participated in the AT&T Mobile HTML5 Hackathon. I had very mixed feelings in the beginning about my participation for multiple reasons. The first reason in which I was against participating is because I have a number of incomplete apps from previous hackathons that I have yet to complete, and I didn’t want […]
Compiled list of my fav resources and tutorials for building rails web apps Twitter Bootstrap is a great styling and css template. It also has responsive design http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ Railscast Tutorial on Twitter Bootstrap http://railscasts.com/episodes/328-twitter-bootstrap-basics OmniAuth Login Authentication https://github.com/intridea/omniauth Railscast Tutorial on OmniAuth http://railscasts.com/episodes/241-simple-omniauth
Omniauth is a simple rails gem that provides multi-authentication for web applications. For example, if you wanted to use have a facebook and twitter login for your app, Ominauth makes this easy to do. Omniauth Identity also makes it easy to add your own authentication, if a user didn’t want to use the other services. […]
First, my apologies for starting a daily post on TED and stopping after day 2. It was my intention to chronicle each day, but TED ended up getting the best of me, and I got the best of TED. I decided not to do a recap of the TED talks. It is available online on […]
Yesterday proved to be another amazing day at TED. The excitement, over stimulation, and late night from Day 1 caught up with me mid day. After an inspiring talk from Susan Cain on introverts and society being more introvert-friendly, I decided to claim my introvert badge and listened to the next session in one of […]
The infamous TED conference started yesterday here in Long Beach. The program kicked off with the TED Fellow Talks. I knew that TED is well known for gathering some of the most extraordinary minds around the world. But I really had no idea. I started the day with a scheduled thirty minute Speed Meeting session, […]
Roughly three weeks ago, I packed up my belongings and moved home temporarily. Yes, I moved in with my parents back home in Philadelphia. Yes, I’m 32 and now living home with parents. Majority of society would not think highly of my current situation. In fact, it may appear that I’m “moving backwards.” A little […]
This is a tutorial to on how to create a simple Rails 3.2 web app. Basic Assumptions: 1. Ruby 1.9.3, RubyGems, and Rails 3.2 installed. If not, visit http://rubyonrails.org/download 2. PostgreSQL is installed. If not, visit http://www.postgresql.org/download/. 3. You are familiar with the Ruby programming language. If not, check out tryruby.org, to learn some basics. From […]
A micropreneur is an entrepreneur willing to accept the risk of starting and managing the type of business that remains small, lets them do the kind of work they want to do, and offers them a balanced lifestyle. – InvestorDictionary.com Or you could substitute this definition with a more urban definition like: A micropreneur is someone […]
So, if it isn’t obvious, I want to clarify that the title of this post is just a catch-title. But I also want to clarify that the organization Black Founders is not just for black people. In fact, the organization is created for all. This statement does not take away from the mission of “increasing […]
Hadiyah Mujhid 