Jolie O'Dell is a journalist and is fascinated by the development and business of technology. She started out in print journalism, transitioned to blogging at ReadWriteWeb and Mashable, and now writes forVentureBeat, the finest technology publication in the land. Since her focus is on developers and the more technical side of tech, she also studied computer science and programming, the better to understand topics like the mobile web and Node.js. O'Dell lives in San Francisco with her neckbeard engineer husband.