Nice intro. I've meant to go to CodeMash, but couldn't ever get leave to go. I'm hoping I can finally go this January. Best of luck with the business and of course the home front.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Dianne Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Yikes! I should have introduced myself. It's sort of rude to show up > here and ask for abstracts, plus you got the wrong idea of who I was. > > So, I'm a software developer who happens to also organize this > conference (codemash). I own a software consulting company in Ann > Arbor, with my co-founder, Bill Wagner. > > I suck at GUI design, but I enjoy parallel and distributed > processing. My current language of choice is Scala, but I have done > some work in C# and LINQ and I really like LINQ. > > I'm also a Java Posse Roundup attendee X 4. Until this year, I was > the only woman who participated at the Roundup. You can hear me > lament my transition from developer to manager in "Engineering vs. > Management". On a good day, I still write code. Like today. > > I used to participate in this group a bit more, but I'm crazy busy > between trying to run the company, stay current in our industry, and > with my 2 small children. Fortunately, I have a husband who rocks > both as a husband and as a dad. It's hard to have 2 careers + > parenting between us, but we're managing so far. > > Anyhow, hope to meet some of you at CodeMash ... and/or at the > Roundup. > > Dianne > > On Oct 1, 10:13 am, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > > Women get pulled into roles that require a lot of their time. Children > first > > come to mind. My wife has the same computer science degree I have. One of > us > > had to attend school meetings, get kids to the bus, etc. That is the role > > she is playing right now. There may be other demands than family, but > that > > has got to be the biggest reason for the difference. > > > > Before you hit me about woman's lib and such, remember that each couple > > makes a choice. My wife could have gotten a job writing software. She > would > > be very good at it. That is not important though and since she has been > out > > of practice for many years, getting back it would be quite difficult. We > > have a profession that requires a lot of dedication to keep up with what > is > > going on. Not as bad as doctors of course, but certainly more demanding > than > > a real estate agent, bus driver, or other jobs that don't take so much of > > your time that you are able to spend little time elsewhere. > > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 1, 4:12 am, Dianne Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > : > > > > Dianne > > > > > Oh, my god! Someone's let a woman in! Oh, phew. She's only a > > > conference organiser. > > > > > No, seriously. Good luck with CodeMash. I'd love to come but there's > > > no chance of that. > > > > > But where are all the female software developers? They used to form a > > > sizeable minority a few years ago but, these days there just seems to > > > be (even) fewer and fewer of them. Is that just my impression or has > > > anyone else noticed this? > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "The Java Posse" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > <javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups .com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > > -- > > Robert Castowww.robertcasto.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
