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Programming is for girls?

Over the last year, while researching and preparing for my talk on “What if we could alter the perception of the Software Developer?”, I came across, and people sent me, dozens of links to great articles. I’ve tried to categorize them into a few posts (more to come soon) so that it’s easier to find…
How I wrote my conference session proposal

Having never submitted anything to conference before this year, I was more than a little bit lost when it came to knowing where to start. I thought I would share how I went from idea to proposal in an attempt to encourage people to give it a go. You never know what might come of…
Notes from “What if we could change the perception of the “Software Developer”?” at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2011

Notes from my session can be found HERE . Thanks to Molly for taking notes and everyone else for participating! If anyone has video please let me know!
Being a speaker at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

I have just returned from a very hectic week at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing which was held this year, in Portland, OR, and I am still on a high from being a speaker there. As a first time conference speaker, I was honored that they accepted my proposal for a birds of…