That’s the percentage of women at 2010 iPadDevCamp (5 of 500, by my hallway count). 6% is what my friends saw at GoGaRuCon (golden gate ruby conference). I attended JavaOne around 1998/9, and counted around 10 per 1000 (another hallway count). So, uh, it’s gotten better? It’s not that the gender balance made the event [...]
I wrote a paper once in linguistics class that was the opposite- masculine metaphors for computers, in the sense of “from the male perspective.” It’s pretty obvious if you’re a programmer, and not a guy. I frequently kill, abort, execute, deploy, etc, in the line of duty! Reading this paper, to a friend, she was [...]
I’ve had a lot, and I mean, a lot, of interviews over the past year and a half. I was intermittently contracting and looking for the perfect job. So, in that process, I developed a few theories and opinions on how one should be interviewed. At She’s Geeky 2011 last weekend, I attended a rather [...]
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