Archive for the ‘WiTty Perspectives’ Category
The Plight of Women in Tech Lately
Posted by: sarah on: March 21, 2012
A couple articles/incidents got me thinking, and I wanted to get my thoughts out there. Boston API Jam - a Hackathon for “Brogrammers” The Boston API Jam, organized by Sqoot, took the whole “brogramming” idea a little too far. The idea of female event staff getting beers for these so-called “brogrammers”… just an awful thing. [...]
The 9 Month Long Get-ChildItem Cmdlet
Posted by: sarah on: March 8, 2012
I’ve got to start off by apologizing for being so quiet here lately. I’ve been ramping down my community involvement, as I’ve had a new opportunity in my life that will be changing things. Ramping Down You may not be seeing me at user groups or other events as much as you used to. This [...]
Words of Advice from an Inc. Success Story - Forget Gender
Posted by: sarah on: November 5, 2011
Now that I own my own business, I find myself reading more and more business-oriented websites. Inc. is one of those sites. While reading yesterday, I found one of their success stories intriguing. Theresa Alfaro Daytner is the owner of a construction company. Inc.’s success story is here: http://www.inc.com/video/201101/success-stories-daytner-construction-group.html. There’s one question in particular that stands [...]
Problem with Telerik’s recent geekette shirt…
Posted by: sarah on: October 30, 2011
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I have no problem identifying with being a geekette (as is obvious with my domain name). However, I do have a problem with one of the more recent geekette shirts to hit the public (this one courtesy of Telerik): Most geekettes I know dress like a typical geek. We like our hoodies and geek tees [...]
The Lonely WiIT Playing with PowerShell…
Posted by: sarah on: January 8, 2011
While I’m a C# and ASP.NET dev by day, I am programming language and automation junkie. My current interests lie in PowerShell. A friend of mine talked me into tech editing some PowerShell stuff of his, and that has since escalated into doing some writing. As I write this technical PowerShell stuff and as I [...]
Thanks, Guys!
Posted by: sarah on: December 18, 2010
Within the past year, I’ve become part of a fairly technical leadership team. This team is mostly made up of males, as the teams we leaders lead are mostly males. While talking with one of the other team members, I got an interesting perspective. The guys’ body language can definitely send all sorts of messages, [...]
Half a Geek Couple and Lovin’ It
Posted by: sarah on: October 2, 2010
While catching up on Twitter, I came across this post titled “Sex and the Single Geek Girl: Half a Geek Couple?”. I was curious to see what a single geek girl had to say, and I had to laugh. Her experiences with geek guys who respond to her profile happen all too often with geek [...]
Another WiTty Observation…Boy Toys, Girl Toys…
Posted by: sarah on: May 16, 2010
Another WiT-related thought came across when I saw this retweet from datachick of this particular Saturday Morning Breakfast Comic (webcomic). I couldn’t hook up my Cabbage Patch Kids, Sylvanian Families, or Barbies to the computer when I was a kid. The closest I came to a futuristic girly doll was Astronaut Barbie. We didn’t have [...]
Where Women Fail - The Programming Beard
Posted by: sarah on: May 16, 2010
Note: This is not meant to be offensive in any way and is purely an interesting observation amongst guys in programming. where women shouldn’t be competing. While I was reading some tweets this morning, I came across Kevin Mitchell‘s link to Unix beards. Sorry, ladies… this something that we should not try to strive to [...]
Computer Careers Represent in Best-Paying Jobs for Women
Posted by: sarah on: May 15, 2010
I came across this article on CNN about the 25 best-paying jobs for women, and I was pleased to see so many computer-related jobs on there. Check this list out: Computer software engineers Computer and information systems managers Computer and mathematical occupations Computer scientists and system analysts Computer programmers That’s 20% of the list! [...]
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