Writing on Trisha Gee

I was interviewed at GOTO Copenhagen, about Java, the Disruptor, the Graduate Developer Community & London Java Community, and a whole host of other things.

I attended (one way or another) two events last week that got me thinking The first was Girl Developers will Save the World - a session that had me a little confused as to whether that referred to me, or actual girls, i.e. those that are not yet legally c…

So, my first day at my very first OSCON.

I’ve been challenged to do a session at a very large conference around women in programming.

Continuing the theme of Things I Have Heard I Don’t Think I Agree With.

Topping off my mini-tour at the end of May, I was invited to Rotterdam to present to a brand new community of developers.

The “User’s Guide to the Disruptor” presentation I gave at QCon London is now available on the InfoQ site.

Three airports and three hotels in a week, and I don’t know whether I’m coming or going.

So, before everything gets pushed out of my head, GOTO Copenhagen.

So yet another interview with me is available, but this one is in written form.

Here’s a video of my Open Conference session on the business benefits of open sourcing your software.

Just a quick note to say I was interviewed for another podcast (Update 2020: apparently no longer available), again to talk about all-female events.

This week’s BBC Outriders podcast features yours truly venting about The Subject That Won’t Go Away, Women in Technology.

Today I was at the Girl Geek Meetup conference.

After attending a number of conferences and events, and performing numerous interviews, I’m starting to hear the same things again and again.

I’m late with my write-up of QCon, and what’s worse, it will be partial - “sadly” I was in Lanzarote on a training week with the running club from the Thursday (8th) so I missed most of it.

This month’s Java Magazine features an article by yours truly, which is yet another intro to the Disruptor.

A few weeks ago, I presented my new “User’s Guide to the Disruptor” talk to the London Java Community.

Last week I went to get my hair cut (yes, sorry, this is a story about hair).

In theory, I am busy writing material for my upcoming speaking events, rather than writing terribly illuminating posts on my blog (see what I did there?).

And now, after an absence of several weeks, you get to see how long it takes me to write some of these posts.

If you have a Parleys subscription, you can watch the whole “Why we shouldn’t target women” panel from Devoxx 2011 a month or so ago.

When you’re applying for a job at LMAX, your CV (or résumé, for our American readers) usually comes through me and I decide whether to call you for a technical phone screen.

Tori Wieldt from the Oracle Technology Network interviewed me at Devoxx.

Saturday was, hopefully, my last conference of the year.

Panel with: Martijn Verburg; Regina ten Bruggencate; Trisha Gee; Antonio Goncalves; Claude Falguière; Kim Ross I’m back from Devoxx, having had lots of food for thought.

Stephan wearing the Brazilian flag at the opening keynote European conferences are different (and cool) because you get to hear even more languages spoken than you usually do in London (apparently the most diverse city in the world for spoken languages).

A couple of weeks ago, I was at JAX London along with a number of the London Java Community regulars (Martijn/Ben/John/Sandro/Simon/Zoe I’m looking at you….)

“What… exactly… were you guys looking to get out of today’s event?

It must be time for me to move on from talking about Java One, it has dominated my blog of late.

I discovered, through the power of the search words that lead to my blog, that there was an incident at JavaOne that once again opens the can of worms that is Sexism In IT.

Last Tuesday Mike and I unveiled our brand shiny new presentation: Understanding the Disruptor, a Beginner’s Guide to Hardcore Concurrency.

Having been back in London for a few days I’ve had some time to digest the madness that was last week.

Here’s a photo of me representing LMAX as I pick up the Duke Award we won for the Disruptor (Thanks to Martijn for taking the photo) So I’ve been at JavaOne for the better part of three days, it’s time to record some of my observations so far:

So, I’m off to JavaOne next week!

Remember a while back I talked about my first public appearance?

We are hiring!

As a survival trait for living and working in the cites1 of London, I have a set of rituals to avoid hangovers.

On Thursday I was at Simon Brown’s Effective Sketches session at Skillsmatter.

Martin recently announced version 2.0 of the Disruptor - basically there have been so many changes since we first open-sourced it that it’s time to mark that officially.

And now, a post for my long-neglected, less technical readers.

My recent slow-down in posting is because I’ve been trying to write a post explaining memory barriers and their applicability in the Disruptor.

We mention the phrase Mechanical Sympathy quite a lot, in fact it’s even Martin’s blog title.

Martin Fowler has written a really good article describing not only the Disruptor, but also how it fits into the architecture at LMAX.

…“what do female programmers look like”: Well, sometimes… If there are any girl programmers out there who are interested in being part of a montage showing who we are, I’d be dead (see what I did there…?)

So now I’ve covered the ring buffer itself, reading from it and writing to it.

This is the missing piece in the end-to-end view of the Disruptor.

The next in the series of understanding the Disruptor pattern developed at LMAX.

Recently we open sourced the LMAX Disruptor, the key to what makes our exchange so fast.

Remember I posted about having to write .NET?