Archive for October, 2009
Why there are few women in IT, redux
(To see where this started, go back to the first post.)
Mostly I just wanted to post a couple of articles from Bruce Byfield, specifically referencing sexism in the FOSS movement, but I think it applies to all of IT, or any technical field for that matter. I thought his arguments were presented in a very professional, non-confrontational manner. It’s not surprising that a lot of men take it as a personal attack, however.
The second one is actually about the fallout from the first one, and what a fallout it was. I won’t even bother talking about the comments this time (specifcally I’m looking at Slashdot, here), since it would cause one to despair on the future of the human race. And I thought the comments over at the Register were bad! It should come as no surprise that the article itself got tagged “troll” by the mysoginistic members of the audience.
Code available for download
My new Code page is now online, where you can download some of my little project exercises. You’ll find the REST web services project I talked about a few weeks ago, as well as a lightweight inversion of control container. I’m releasing these projects as public domain since they were really just exercises and not full-fledged usable codebases.