Hi all,

The ACMW was very happy to see so many people come to our events this quarter. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future events, please let us know!

Survey: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/nancydo/64974

**Note**: Location has changed to Gates Commons

ACMW is holding another chill session on October 30th, 5pm in the Gates Commons (on the 6th floor of the CSE Building). Chill sessions are a fun, informal way of getting people (particularly women) in the CSE department together so that we can all get to know each other.

We’re planning to do YouTube charades next Thursday, but we need your help. Fill out the survey if you have any YouTube videos that you’d like us to use: https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/nancydo/63023

Hope to see everyone there!

http://grok-code.com/37/famous-programmers-from-adleman-to-zimmermann/

The bulk of my summer, I was working as a Program Manager intern at RealNetworks (the RealPlayer company). There were two main projects I was working on this summer.

Project #1: Write a functional specification for the Rhapsody client (the application that manages their music subscription service). Though Rhapsody already existed, there was almost no documentation on it–the only way you could learn about the product was to ask other people about it. Unfortunately, this becomes a problem when very knowledgeable people leave the company. My job was to gather all the technical information from everyone and document it. Because there is so much different functionality in Rhapsody, this project took roughly 6 weeks.

Project #2: Instrument Omniture into the Rhapsody client. My job was to write a technical document to describe how to instrument Omniture (a web analytics product) into the Rhapsody client. This would allow the company to track user usage data to answer important business questions. At first, this was difficult because I didn’t know anything about Omniture (and their online help documents were not very helpful). Finding good resources about Omniture and learning about the product took about 3 weeks. Eventually, I was able to create a roadmap to divide this project into separate phases, each with details about the technical implementation. The team is using this document to guide them as they work on instrumenting Omniture–in fact, they have already started work on Phase 1!

I faced many challenges in the scary work world, but I felt that I had a valuable experience as an intern at RealNetworks. It was a good opportunity to work with many technical, experienced, and smart people. I also felt that I did meaningful work that will actually be put to use. In short, if you’re thinking about doing an internship, I highly recommend it!

Other than work, work, and work, I went to San Jose and San Francisco for a few days in August. We were visiting my brother who was interning at Adobe, and just going around and exploring the Bay Area. I also spent a lot of time at home playing with my little brother, now 9 years old! He’s a big kid now.

That pretty much sums up my summer .

Hello everyone! The officers of UW ACMW have been very busy this summer with travel, school, internships, research opportunities, work, and other activities.

We’d like to share some of our summer experiences with you. Expect some posts from us in next two weeks!

Girl geek dinners are fun events for geeky girls to get together, network, and hear a technical presentation. I went to the second girl geek dinner at Amazon with some of my coworkers last night.

Last night’s presentation was an overview of Amazon Web Services. Frankly, I did not even know that Amazon even had something called “Amazon Web Services”, so this was a great way to learn about what the company is doing outside of Amazon.com. Go check out aws.amazon.com–it is pretty neat!

If you missed this event, don’t worry! There will be more; just check out the Seattle Girl Geek Dinner blog for updates.

Everyone is talking about “The Chrome” now.

Naturally, if you don’t know what the Chrome is, you might feel a little left out. But no worries, we are here to fill you in. The chrome is Google’s new web browser that just came out today. See more info here: http://www.google.com/chrome/

Read the comic too! (FYI, it’s good, but it’s also 38 pages; you’ll need some time)

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/08/06/lol_its_the_attack_of_the_internet_memes.html.

Enjoy .