Archive for the 'Quotations' Category
Posted May 12, 2008 at 9:37 PM | Tagged as: Computing, Quotations, Web Stuff, Women! | Comments Off
Five ACM experts have contributed to the twelfth edition of Deborah Morley’s college textbook, Understanding Computers: Today & Tomorrow. One of them, Chandra Krintz, Vice Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, answered the question, Are programming skills necessary to be a Web site developer today?
Yes, more than ever. Web sites today are dynamic, interactive, complex, and highly adaptive to appeal to the specific and changing needs of the individual users and consumers that constitute today’s competitive commercial markets and popular Web communities. Programming languages have evolved to support existing and emerging Web technologies. Developers today must be able to use effectively a wide range of high-level programming language technologies, such as Java, AJAX, Ruby/Rails, Python, ASP.Net, and PHP, and to adapt quickly to new languages, frameworks, and practices. Programming expertise enables developers to implement efficiently dynamic Web page content, as well as the distributed and layered systems through which Web pages interact with databases and other back-end applications. In addition, strong and marketable programming skills today include team-based work styles and pair programming, test-driven program deployment, agile workplaces, and use of visual and interactive development environments. Programming skills are key to the success, productivity, and satisfaction of today’s Web developers.
Posted March 7, 2008 at 8:38 PM | Tagged as: Quotations | Comments Off
Of personal relevance: Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Of professional relevance: Set the right example. It will inspire others.
Posted December 4, 2007 at 10:21 AM | Tagged as: Bryn Mawr, Quotations, WTF? | Comments Off
Delaware Senator Joe Biden was recently asked why he wears an American flag pin, by, as Biden put it, a “very attractive woman who looked like she just finished a sociology course at Bryn Mawr College, if you know what I mean.” According to the Washington Post, most of his audience clearly didn’t know what he meant.
Even David Karen, chair of sociology at Bryn Mawr, doesn’t know what he meant: “I don’t know what the senator means. But if Senator Biden is implying that sociology students at Bryn Mawr College are ‘very attractive’ and more liberal than he is, I wouldn’t spend any time trying to disabuse him of that notion.”
I’d guess that Biden was referencing the antiquated notion that Mawrters are so engrossed in their books and studies that they are unaware of what’s going on in the rest of the world. But hey, at least he understands that attractive women attend Bryn Mawr, so that’s progress, right?
Posted February 14, 2007 at 1:35 PM | Tagged as: Geekout, Quotations, Web Stuff | Comments Off
My Valentine’s day gift to you… a geeky tee that you can buy for yourself or your sweetheart!
Ah, the button element. Overlooked by some, but loved by those that know it and use it. With the power of button, you can make style great-looking form buttons in any browser. I was introducing someone to its awesomeness yesterday, when the idea for this tee came to me.
Get one now!
Posted January 4, 2007 at 2:32 AM | Tagged as: Quotations, Women! | Comments Off
Via Feministing/jerseygirl80, originally known as the Women’s Rights Manifesto…
Because woman’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we’re the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it’s our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we’re nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we’re nymphos and if we don’t we’re frigid and if we love women it’s because we can’t get a “real” man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we’re neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we’re selfish and if we stand up for our rights we’re aggressive and “unfeminine” and if we don’t we’re typical weak females and if we want to get married we’re out to trap a man and if we don’t we’re unnatural and because we still can’t get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can’t cope or don’t want a pregnancy we’re made to feel guilty about abortion and…for lots and lots of other reasons we are part of the women’s liberation movement.
I’d also add, “…and if we’re working in science or technology and we’re not ugly and totally geeky we must only be in it because a man helped us get there…” — because that’s sometimes how you’re perceived when you’re a smart and beautiful woman in science/tech. (Men are just so catty sometimes!)
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