Girl Geek Dinner 3 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands

http://www.girlgeekdinner.nl
Speaker: Julie LermanTitle: Staying dry while drinking from the technology firehose

Date: Wednesday 8 October, 2008

Time: 7-11 PM

Location: Flexbar @ Westergasfabriek (Pazzanistraat 1, Amsterdam)

Cost: 22.50 Euros (buffet dinner, excluding drinks)Abstract:

Julie Lerman has been programming for over 20 years, with the glorious

beginnings of a single BASIC computer class while acquiring a degree in

Russian history. At her first job (nothing to do with history) the only

computer in a company of over 1000 people quickly ended up on her desk.

Since then she has used about 10 programming languages, but it took 13

years before she attended her first programming class. Julie will talk to

the Amsterdam Girl Geeks about the challenge of trying to remain sane

while keeping up with constantly changing technology and some of the extra

challenges that being a girl geek added along the way.

Biography:

Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been

designing and writing software applications for over 20 years. Julie is

the author of “Programming Entity Framework” (O’Reilly) and is well known

in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker.

She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at conferences around the

world and author of articles in many technical publications. Julie lives

in the tiny U.S. state of Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User

Group and serves on the board of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance.

You can read Julie’s blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog