I wandered across this post lamenting the low proportion of women who wrote articles for an O’Reilly book about coding practice.
Out of 39 authors, only one is woman, and she’s a co-author of one chapter.
There is some debate about whether this low number is due to relatively few women being considered as leading programmers (and […]

So, devolution day in Northern Ireland. It doesn’t seem particularly special to me. Of course, however much politicians and media get het up about it, I think there’s an over-riding feeling we’ve been here before. There are some unique points (Martin McGuiness & Ian Paisley standing side-by-side? I don’t think anyone could have predicted that), […]