Upcoming Talks
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After talking with some friends about representation of women in tech conferences, I’ve decided to focus most of my efforts on technical talks this year. So…. what’s in store? Predicting…
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International Women’s Day
March 8 is International Women’s Day. It was first honored in 1911, and the history of the day can be seen on this page IWD: History of International Women’s Day.…
Resurrecting the blog
After years of dormancy and clearing the blog, I decided 2022 would be my year of data adventures. It would be the year that I pick up writing more on…
Getting Past Biases
As I was growing up, certain biases were established that I never thought I would get past: However, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten past a lot of the biases,…
Rockstars Need Not Apply
My friend Doc posted this on Twitter, and it really grated on me, so much so that I’m compelled to write. Meet Bill.Bill’s a rockstar programmer.He codes fast.Bill doesn’t need…
My Super Power – Debugging!
Almost every night, my boys want me to read books about Iron Man, Hulk, Spiderman, Thor, and even the Guardians of the Galaxy. They are all about superheroes and villains…
2018… The Year of… Python?!
Over the past few years, I’ve been dealing with things in C# and Java, especially in bringing newcomers to the field and helping those who may be older in the…
International Speaker!
2018 marks 10 years (and a little of change, counting my 1999 stuff) of speaking in the tech community on a variety of technologies: I have spoken on other technical…
My VB.NET Story
In my MVP Summit recap, I mentioned that I want to help contribute to the docs on docs.microsoft.com, including Visual Basic. Many people know that I’ve focused on C# the…
Microsoft MVP Summit 2018 Recap
Last week, I was out at the Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond, Washington. As many people know, I’ve been a Microsoft fan all of my life, so going out to…