Posted on September 9th, 2008
Written by Barry Dorrans
Now that Developer Day voting is open the competition to an MSDN subscription is closed. We ended up with three potential female speakers, one from an MVP, Bev Hatchard who spoke at DDD Scotland and is now bitten by the presenting bug, one from Chris Hart on virtual worlds and a submission from Helen Emerson. [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2008
Written by Barry Dorrans
As a way of getting the Girl Geeks more involved with the Microsoft community we are opening up a competition that is running alongside DDD, with a prize donated by me. Firstly; what is DDD? It’s FREE one day events, all about .NET developers learning, sharing and interacting with each other in an informal and [...]
Over the weekend I was talking to Sarah about the developer day events; and how she had pointed out that DDD Ireland had an all male "cast" of speakers. She’s of the opinion that it’s because call for speakers aren’t announced widely enough; I’m of the opinion it’s because the ratio of developers who are [...]
Posted on April 17th, 2008
Written by Barry Dorrans
It appears my seduction technique is not so far off the mark, with Infosecurity Europe doing their annual poll to see who will give their passwords away. According to the survey, 45 per cent of women were quite happy to give strangers, posing as market researchers, their email password, in return for a chocolate bar, [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2007
Written by Barry Dorrans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7120667.stm Girls school to get £5.5m upgrade Plans for a new £5.5m post-16 education centre at a Berkshire school have been submitted to the council. The scheme, which would be located at Reading Girls’ School in Whitley, would include accommodation and facilities for young mothers. It would offer vocational courses such as hairdressing, beauty, childcare, [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2007
Written by Barry Dorrans
Men. We’re shallow creatures you know (cue comments from everyone about my obsession with heels). Geeks? Well we like toys, useless things like frisbees, or shirts branded with some software company logo, or, well, booth bunnies. Baskow & Associates, a local special-events and talent agency, has ridden the Comdex gravy train for 10 years. Owner [...]
So today is "Women’s No Pay Day", highlighting the fact that women are on average for £4,000 less a year. It’s headline grabbing certainly but the briefing PDF paints a more interesting picture. There is an admission that straightforward pay discrimination only accounts for 40% of this figure, the rest is down to the jobs [...]
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