Software Craft, Women In Tech
Software craftswomen: Claudia Rosu
In celebration of Women’s Day, this March we salute yesterday & today women’s contribution to the development of the technology and IT fields. Follow #famousITwomen to find interesting stories. They might motivate and encourage you to do something out of the ordinary in your career.
The importance of women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math has been gaining a momentum in the last years. At I T.A.K.E. Unconference, we value women’s contribution in IT and we believe their dedication to the software craft can be an inspiration for other practitioners.
In the latest posts we invited you to learn more about the contribution women have in IT as Fransizka Sauerwein, Alexandra Marin and Grace Hopper.
Now it’s time to introduce you Claudia Rosu, software craftswoman speaking @ I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016.
#1. What’s your professional story?
Why did you choose to develop a career in this domain?
First, I will say that I am proud to be a software developer. Since primary school I loved to solve math problems. Later, during high school, I was encouraged to follow Computer Science, as I had good logical and analytical thinking skills. Looking back, I would follow the same path, and I would change just a few things.
#2. Share with us a lesson you’ve learned since you’ve been working in IT
#3. Whom do you admire as a women IT practitioner? Why?
Software Craft, Women In Tech
Software craftswomen: Alexandra Marin
In celebration of Women’s Day, this March we salute yesterday & today women’s contribution to the development of the technology and IT fields. Follow #famousITwomen to find interesting stories. They might motivate and encourage you to do something out of the ordinary in your career.
The importance of women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) has been gaining a momentum in the last years. At I T.A.K.E. Unconference, we value women’s contribution in IT and we believe their dedication to the software craft can be an inspiration for other practitioners.
Alexandra Marin, software craftswoman speaking at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016, shared more with us about her professional journey and lessons learnt in the IT field.
If you want to find more inspirational stories, we invite you to read also about Franziska Sauerwein, software craftswoman speaking at I T.A.K.E Unconference, and Grace Hopper, programming pioneer.
#1. What’s your professional story?
Why did you choose to develop a career in this domain?
Dopamine junkie who loves cracking puzzles. Had my first computer in middle school and by high school had taught myself how to code. One CS degree and a few freelancing/volunteering gigs later landed my first real developer job in Germany. My traditional office career was short lived though. I decided to check for myself if freelancers really go hungry looking for work, as I had repeatedly been warned.
#2. Share with us a lesson you’ve learned since you’ve been working in IT
Maybe counterintuitive, but time and again I’ve seen collaboration putting you ahead of the game. So, experience pair programming & code retreats, make open source contributions, be a speaker, offer mentorship or get a mentor. Building a network beats whiteboard practice any day of the week as far as job hunting goes.
#3. Whom do you admire as a women IT practitioner? Why?
I appreciate makers like Simone Giertz and Sara Chipps, creator of Jewelbots, for tackling hardware and robotics. I empathize with Julie-Ann Horvath, ex-GitHub, for a situation all too common for women in tech. Also worth following on Twitter: Iris Classon, Pinterest’s Tracy Chou, and not women per-se, but the @CallbackWomen & @PowerToFly initiatives.
Announcements
Meet the speakers – Part 4. Early Bird tickets available
Software craftsmen from more than 15 countries will meet in the heart of Bucharest, 19-20 May, at I T.A.K.E Unconference! For 2 days, more than 30 speakers will share insights, latest trends, and deliver hands-on sessions.
In Meet the Speakers Part I, Part II, and Part III, we shared more about the speakers who will make this year event a one not to be missed. Below, you can read more about other top-notch practitioners who joined the speakers line-up:
Come discover mutation testing and make sure your never forget another assert again.
Alexandru Bolboaca, CTO MozaicLabs, Romania
Intro to Microservices (Talk)
Alexandra Marin, Software developer at crossplatform.io, Romania
C# and NUnit tests are essential, but limited. Let’s make our testing toolkit complete with automated UI acceptance testing for common behaviors like pressing buttons, making swipe gestures, entering text and validating inputs.
Flexibility through immutability (Talk)
Is immutable data just functional programming snobbery? How could it possibly provide more flexibility than a mutable approach?
Houssam Fakih, Software Engineer at Arolla, France
Boris Gonnot, Head of Feature Development Teams at BISAM, France
Metrics For Good Developers (Talk)
Simple and efficient metrics for developers
Want to challenge the current programming practices as these software craftsmen are doing? Want to experience new techniques, debate on the existing ones or even pair program in the I T.A.K.E Unconference space?
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Stay tuned. We will continue publishing more about the program, speakers and the dynamic learning practices awaiting you.
Thrilled to see you in May!
Women In Tech
Admiral Grace Hopper, programming pioneer
In celebration of Women’s Day, this March we salute yesterday & today women’s contribution to the development of the technology and IT fields. Follow #famousITwomen to find interesting stories. They might motivate and encourage you to do something out of the ordinary in your career.
The importance of women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math has been gaining a momentum in the last years. At I T.A.K.E. Unconference, we value women’s contribution in IT and we believe their dedication to the software craft can be an inspiration for other practitioners.
Help us meet other remarkable women, from your teams and communities! For the next 5 registrations at I T.A.K.E Unconference this week, we offer an invitation for a lady colleague to join! You will receive the discount code after registering.
After finding the professional journey of Franziska Sauerwein, software craftswoman speaking at I T.A.K.E Unconference, we invite to find more about United States Navy Admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992). Often defined as a woman ahead of her time, she is one of the first programmers in the history.
The first bug
With a PhD degree in mathematics, she was part of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, U.S. Naval Reserve), and later joined the programming team at the new Mark I computer, at Harvard University.
One famous anecdote kept perpetuating until today about her time in the Mark I team. One day a computer failure had Hopper and her team baffled. They opened the machine and they discovered the source of the problem: a live moth was stuck in one of the electrical switches controlling a circuit. Hopper taped the offending creature into her log book and noted beside it, “first actual bug found.” She is credited with the terms “bug” and “debug” for computer errors and how to fix them.
The A compiler
Grace Hopper is also the creator of the A compiler, a program developed during her time at UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I – UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I).
After joining the consortium Conference on Data Systems Languages (CODASYL), as technical consultant on the committee, she created a validation software for COBOL to make sure the language could perform its function. COBOL, which stands for “COmmon Business-Oriented Language”, is still used in order-processing business software today.
First woman to …
In the course of her lifetime, Grace Hopper was awarded 40 honorary degrees from universities around the world, along with numerous awards and honors including:
- 1st winner of “Computer Science Man of the Year” award from the Data Processing Management Association in 1969
- 1st person from the United States and the first woman from any country to be made Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1973
- 1st woman to receive the National Medal of Technology as an individual in 1991
The most important thing I’ve accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, ‘Do you think we can do this?’ I say, ‘Try it.’ And I back ’em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir ’em up at intervals so they don’t forget to take chances.
Stay tuned & follow #famousITwomen! During the next days, we will share more stories about women who made & make history in IT. If you want to meet remarkable software craftswomen, join us at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016!
Help us meet other remarkable women, from your teams and communities! For the next 5 registrations at I T.A.K.E Unconference this week, we offer an invitation for a lady colleague to join!
Software Craft, Women In Tech
Software craftswomen: Franziska Sauerwein
In celebration of Women’s Day, this March we salute yesterday & today women’s contribution to the development of the technology and IT fields. Follow #famousITwomen to find interesting stories. They might motivate and encourage you to do something out of the ordinary in your career.
#1. What’s your professional story?
Please share with us about your journey in the IT field.
#2. What would be a lesson you’ve learned so far as practitioners in this field?
As developers, we have a profound influence on our society and people’s everyday lives. How we write software and what we write has an impact and with great power comes great responsibility. And how people act when developing software has a great influence on how that software turns out. For example, a team that does not have a good team culture or a lacking relationship with the business will most probably have code quality problems that stem from misunderstandings and lack of communication. And sometimes products are developed just from a developer’s perspective without the user’s needs in mind when the teams are too homogenous. This is something that should definitely be changed.
#3. Whom do you admire as a women IT practitioner? Why?
Please share with our audience about great women you think they make a difference in this domain.
Announcements
Meet the speakers – Part 3
Software craftsmen from more than 15 countries will meet in the heart of Bucharest, 19-20 May, at I T.A.K.E Unconference! For 2 days, around 30 speakers will share insights, latest trends, and deliver hands-on sessions.
In Meet the Speakers Part I and Part II, we shared more about the first 10 speakers who will make this year event a one not to be missed. Below, you can read more about the next 5:
Yegor Buhayenko, CTO at Teamed.io, USA
Talk To Your Microservice Via a Chat Bot, not UI (Talk)
It seems that chat bots are a more effective way of interaction between web (micro-)services and users than traditional HTML user interfaces.
Alexandru Badiu, Development Lead at Corbis, Romania
Maintaining a Node.JS OSS package (Live coding)
How to setup a development pipeline for your Node.JS project.
Hugo Meeser, Owner at Bridge Global, Netherlands
How to successfully manage remote teams (Workshop)
Participants will create a best practice board in teams of 5-6 people.
Ionut G. Stan, Software Developer at Eloquentix, Romania
Let’s Write a Parser! (Live coding)
One weird trick to write parsers. Compiler engineers will hate you!
Milen Dyankov, Senior Consultant at Liferay, Poland
Microservices and Modularity or the difference between treatment and cure! (Live coding)
An attempt to analyze the problems microservices claim to solve and explore other possible solutions!
Want to challenge the current programming practices as these software craftsmen are doing? Want to experience new techniques, debate on the existing ones or even pair program in the I T.A.K.E Unconference space?
Get your Super Early Bird ticket today!
Stay tuned. We will continue publishing more about the program, speakers and the dynamic learning practices awaiting you.
Thrilled to see you in May!
Announcements
Meet the speakers – Part 2. Super early bird tickets available!
Software craftsmen from more than 15 countries will meet in the heart of Bucharest, 19-20 May, at I T.A.K.E Unconference! For 2 days, almost 30 speakers will share insights, latest trends, and deliver hands-on sessions.
We have previously shared the first round of practitioners who will make this year event a one not to be missed. Below, you can read more about the next 5:
Franziska Sauerwein, Software Craftswoman at Codurance LTD, UK
Introduction to Outside In Test Driven Development (London School) (Live coding)
Learn about different styles of TDD and how to choose the appropriate one
Raising The Bar (Talk)
My Journey Towards Software Craftsmanship
Philipp Krenn, Tamer of technology at ecosio, Austria
Automate all the things AWS with Ansible (Workshop)
You want to automate your AWS infrastructure, the provisioning of instances, and your deployments? Then Ansible is the right tool for you and this workshop gets you up and running in no time
Tugberk Ugurlu, Software Developer at Redgate Software, UK
How Docker Changes the Way You Work with and Release Your Microservices (Talk)
1000 feet overview of managing a solution architecture that consists of Microservices with Docker
Zero Downtime Deployment Golden Rules (Talk)
Getting Into the Zero Downtime Deployment World
Tim Perry, Tech lead and Open-Source Champion at Softwire, Spain
Microservice Pipeline Architecture (Talk)
Microservice architecture in practice, to build content pipelines
Andrey Adamovich, Software Architect at Aestas IT, Latvia
Patterns for infrastructure as-a-code (Talk)
Patterns are everywhere
Visualizing codebases (Talk)
Want to challenge the current programming practices as these software craftsmen are doing? Want to experience new techniques, debate on the existing ones or even pair program in the I T.A.K.E Unconference space?
Get your Super Early Bird ticket today!
Stay tuned. We will continue publishing more about the program, speakers and the dynamic learning practices awaiting you.
Thrilled to see you in May!
Announcements
Meet the speakers – Part I. Registration on!
Live coding. Architecture & Software Design. Quality practices. DevOps. Technical Leadership. And more…
These are just a few of the topics you will hear about at the 4th edition of I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016, taking place in the heart of Bucharest, 19-20 May! We are going to welcome you with an intense program and an amazing line-up of speakers!
We are honored to welcome a great number of top-notch speakers, from 16 countries, to share their stories about the latest technologies and trends. In this blog post, we will share more about 5 speakers and more will come later.
Alastair Smith, Software Developer at Redgate Software Ltd., Cambridge, UK
Test-Drive your Database (Live coding)
Learn how to make database development fun again, by applying all your favourite modern development practices to your SQL code!
Andreas Leidig, Developer, Agile Mentor at msgGillardon AG, Bretten, Deutschland
Are your Mocks mocking at you ? (Live Coding)
How reliable are your mocks when it comes to integration?
Thomas Sundberg, Developer at Think Code AB, Stockholm, Sweden
You find bugs, even with 100% test coverage. Why? Let me show you. And how to address it using TDD
Sandro Mancuso, Software Craftsman, founder of Codurance at Codurance, London, UK
Session to be announced
Clément Bouillier, Software Craftsman at DevLyon, Lyon, France
CQRS & EventSourcing (Workshop)
Learn by yourself the basics about these concepts, through coding with prepared koans
Want to challenge the current programming practices as these software craftsmen are doing? Want to experience new techniques, debate on the existing ones or even pair program in the I T.A.K.E Unconference space?
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Stay tuned. We will continue publishing more about the program, speakers and the dynamic learning practices awaiting you.
Thrilled to see you in May!
Announcements
Countdown to I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016
Great news! The final preparations for I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016 program are done!
Our team of reviewers finished the draft program. 100 proposals, from speakers from 20 countries, were received to the Call for Speakers. We are looking forward to let you know which of them will make it to the final program.
As a sneak peak, we can tell you that lots of live coding and exciting talks & workshops are in row. As we are finishing up the details about the 4th edition of I T.A.K.E Unconference, we invite you to have a look at the previous editions.
Here it is a selection of our favorite highlights:
#1
I T.A.K.E Unconference has become a unique meeting place for top notch technology craftsmen. During a 2-day program, they get involved in talks and workshops that foster peer-learning and challenge the known paths.
#2
A great line-up of keynotes speakers enables the inspiring and dynamic learning atmosphere.
#3
We wrote code, talked code and presented code
#4
Both the participants, and the speakers could join a technical Open Space, where they shared ideas and learnt from each other, engaging in professional conversations, Q&A sessions and live coding.
#5
The participants, passionated coders, competed with their peers, taking a set of challenges that put their skills to the test. Gadgets like a drone or an iPad were the rewards for the winners.
#6
Women speakers, as well as academic speakers enriched the I T.A.K.E Unconference participants’ experience with valuable insights and stories. Additionally, the women in IT campaign brought into the audience’s attention some of the most amazing ladies who made a contribution to the development of the tech field.
#7
Happy we’ve had the chance to work with amazing speakers, participants, volunteers, partners, and sponsors. Looking forward to the next editions, too!
We would love to see you in I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016 top moments! Stay tuned for the program announcement and registration opening! If you would like to hear the news first, sign up here!