Code as Craft

“Today, in conjunction with Hacker School, Etsy is announcing a new scholarship and sponsorship program for women in technology: we’ll be hosting the summer 2012 session of Hacker School in the Etsy headquarters, and we’re providing ten Etsy Hacker Grants of $5,000 each — a total of $50,000 — to women who want to join […]

Next Monday, Garann Means, author of Node for Front-End Developers: Writing Server-Side JavaScript Applications, and Etsy’s newest engineer, is hosting All Girl* Dev Brunch 2012 . If you’re a female developer or someone who wants to get more female developers involved in your organization, Austin All-Girl Hack Night and Girl Develop It invite you to […]

A look at the state of PHP in 2012. Where are we, how did we get here and how does PHP fit into the current infrastructure ecosystem of the Web? Plus, a quick tour of what is new and cool in PHP 5.4. Reserve your free ticket, and subscribe to our list to find out […]

Ross Snyder will be speaking at Surge this Thursday/Friday in Balitmore, on Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right.

Generosity of spirit is a core Etsy Engineering principle — as a team we expect each of us to speak in public, release open source software, lead classes, write posts here on Code As Craft and/or publish research papers. In that spirit, we’re at OSCON in force this year: Ephemeral Hadoop Clusters in the Cloud […]