Writing on Trisha Gee

So, I wrote a long email to the London Java Community in answer to an excellent question: “What can men do to support Women in Technology?”.

It’s been a while since I wrote a conference write up.

So I came to the blog to update my upcoming events (at least something stays up to date) only to find it’s been nearly a year since I last blogged!

Last night was the final get-together to discuss the Java 8 MOOC.

As I mentioned last week, the Sevilla Java User Group is working towards completing the Java 8 MOOC on lambdas and streams.

I wrote a post for the JetBrains Upsource blog about some of the things you should be looking for when you do code reviews (and some of the things you should not be looking at).

The Sevilla Java User Group is working together towards completing the Java 8 MOOC on lambdas and streams.

While I was at QCon New York (probably my business conference this year!)

So, I get asked a lot about how I got into technical advocacy / evangelism1, so it seems like the most cost-effective way to answer this question is to write a post about it.

I was asked three simple questions about my thoughts on Java turning 20, and ended up writing a guest post for Voxxed.

You may have noticed that the more I go to conferences, the less I write about them.

Since publishing yesterday’s post, I’ve had a lot of great comments, so I thought I’d write yet another post to answer them.

Off the back of yesterday’s post, I received a number of comments and questions around blind CFPs (Call For Papers - usually to get into a conference you submit to a CFP) for conferences.

We work so hard to promote equality, to fight for the rights of people who are not middle-class white men, and time and again it just feels like we’re not getting anywhere.

I think living in a beautiful city in a fantastic climate has its advantages.

Apparently, I’m all about Continuous Learning - after I wrote the last post about IntelliJ Tips, I carried on through my trawl of the documentation and, of course, discovered a load more things I didn’t know.

Day three of my brand new job - woohoo!

I wrote a piece for the Java Advent Blog, about how developers aren’t just communing with the computer, they also need to feel listened to by real human beings.

Just over two years ago, I embarked upon a journey as a developer / evangelist for a company who was then called 10gen (who got fed up of saying “the MongoDB people”, and transformed into MongoDB Inc).

Last month at Devoxx I was in a session discussing what we can do to encourage more diversity in our speakers (specifically, although not limited to, increasing the number of women speakers).

In one my rare weekends at home, I found myself on a pottery course (this is the sort of thing that happens when you’re a “yes” person).

TL;DR MongoDB London, 6th November, 50% off with discount code 50Trisha.

This year I’ve been demonstrating how easy it is to create modern web apps using AngularJS, Java and MongoDB.

Well, I’m at JavaOne again, and after only one day I’ve already learnt stuff.

We’ve been missing an introduction to using MongoDB from Java for a little while now - there’s plenty of information in the documentation, but we were lacking a step-by-step guide to getting started as a Java developer.

I loved this analogy: Cycling is awfully similar to being a woman.

Last night at the Sevilla JUG we officially celebrated the launch of Java 8 - yay!

Which is more readable?

Yesterday I walked into the kitchen to see how lunch was going and my boyfriend handed me a knife, a part-chopped hard boiled egg and said “finish this, I need to have a shower”.

Last Saturday Mr Stephen Chin came to Sevilla on his crazy European tour to show us Lego and Robots.

It’s been a while since I updated you on my travel plans, so now I’ve had some more conferences confirmed, I thought I would pass the information on.

I’ve been using Blogger happily for three years or so, since I migrated the blog from LiveJournal and decided to actually invest some time writing.

Last night the Sevilla MUG had our March Madness event.

Wow.

I’ve been running into BSkyB a bunch this week - firstly I was invited to kick off their innovation tech talks series last Monday, then I kept meeting Sky people (that makes it sound like they’re aliens) at QCon.

I’m on a plane (there’s a surprise) on my way back from The Joy of Coding.

Web development has changed a lot.

So, following on from my observations of being an outsider at FOSDEM because I’m not an open source developer, I do have another story to tell where my female-ness is actually relevant.

So, FOSDEM.

Last night was the inaugural meeting of the Sevilla MongoDN User Group.

I wrote an article for the latest edition of Java Magazine which is an introduction to MongoDB for Java developers, and a nod to why it’s good in the “Big Data” space.

I’m pleased to see that GM has hired the “best person for the job” as their new CEO - that does seem like a good idea.

Well, if I thought 2012 was the fastest disappearing year on record, that record was smashed into the ground by 2013.

December disappeared in a rush of vacation and a fleeting tour of Australia.

In the last two articles on Spock I’ve covered mocking and stubbing.

In previous years, JAX London would have been an easy, local conference to go to.

For no reason other than LinkedIn communications are starting to irritate me, here’s my personal LinkedIn Etiquette guide.

So, I thought a few months ago that my blog would become more of a travel blog than a tech blog because of the amount of conferences I was going to.

I think this is a nice example of how to showcase technology and make it relevant and exciting for people.

I’m a great believer in getting kids to code early - after all, I’m of that generation that was taught 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 at the age of 9.