Tired of techies throwing around so many acronyms it makes your head spin? Want to build a cool website, but can’t decide whether to use RoR, PHP, MySQL, WTF, or BBQ? Maybe you bridged the gap and heard about a great new tool that makes building websites easy, but keep running into an internet radio site when you try to Google it? (Tricked you! That’s Jango, but you’re looking for Django.)

Thanks to the rapid evolution of programming tools and especially web frameworks, there are a lot of buzzwords to sift through to decipher conversations about computer technology. We think we’re missing out on a lot of great conversations by speaking in acronyms and want to lay it out straight for the New York community.

Please join Girl Develop It in our first WTF Web Lecture and Lab, hosted by Etsy. We’ll gather to go over the basics of a web technology stack (teaching all the acronyms that power a website, for example) and accept questions from the audience about those technologies and any other mysterious terms they may have heard in tech circles.

We’ll also have an open lab (hackathon, if you will, which just means people at computers in a room together) where knowledgable developers can help answer general tech questions or help you through any rough spots in your own projects.

Hope to see you there!