Women in IT

A couple of months ago Linda van der Pal and I, representing Duchess, gave a talk at FOSDEM 2008 on the issues about women in IT today. Here is the abstract:
TITLE
Duchess, Ladies in Java
link: www.jduchess.org
ABSTRACT
Female programmers are rare. Female Java programmers are even more rare. As female Java programmers ourselves, our interest in this issue [...]

JavaPolis 2006: Closures

Closure. Closure. Closure. That’s all I heard from Ruby enthusiasts all week.
It was first explained to me as being able to pass code around, like they had in C which I only vaguely remember. Then it became more clear when applied as the much neglected Visitor Pattern. For example, if you have a Collection and [...]

JavaPolis 2006: Overall Impressions

After staying an extra day in Antwerp to visit family, I’m back in Amsterdam after the JavaPolis conference, the biggest independent Java conference. I told myself that if I don’t finish writing down my thoughts from JavaPolis before the weekend is over, I’ll probably never get to it. So here it goes. I guess if [...]