Intimidating situations

This week I was finally invited to the architect forum meeting. Ten more or less geeky men, and me. It’s funny, I don’t usually think about the gender imbalance in the software industry much. On this occasion though, I felt distinctly uncomfortable. They...

booked for SDC2009

The full programme for SDC2009 in March will be published in about a week’s time, but I can already tell it will be a great event. The call for papers is now closed, and the website has been updated with photos of all the booked speakers. With only one day of...

GothPy last night

The second official meeting of the Gothenburg Python User Group was last night. Eight of us turned up, despite my writing the wrong address on my meeting invite. (It is Norra Ågatan 10A, not 6A – sorry!)Anyway, in the first part of the meeting Jacob Hallen...

A Quality codebase

What is the quality of this codebase on a scale of 0 – 100? Zero means “perfectly designed, clean code” and 100 means “total spaghetti, impossble to make changes”.Without hesitation, Andreas answered. “70”.Andreas was standing...

Conflict of interests

My cousin held out the keys to his flashy looking sportscar and said “Do me a favour. If you crash into something with my car and it’s nearly written off, but not quite. Please back up then hit it again, harder, until it really is written off”. I laughed...