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As my blog has been relatively quiet recently, I thought I’d take this opportunity to let you know that an article I’ve written about how to write for the web has just been published on my company’s website.

I work for a small company called Rendili, and you can find my article here.

I hope that it’ll prove useful, and if anyone wants to make any comments or add anything then please feel free to post your comments here on my personal blog.

Thank you!

So today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day organised to highlight the wide-ranging contributions and achievements of women in science and technology.

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While in general I try to stay away from the whole gender debate surrounding these industries, I don’t think that anyone can deny that women form a very definite minority in these areas. There are a whole host of reasons for this, none of which I particularly want to go into and none of which are going to be that quick and easy to solve. But I believe that everyone has the ability and opportunity (however small) to help change mindsets, throw out the old stereotypes and encourage a more open and welcoming atmosphere.

In regards to today’s post, it can only be a good thing that women are being publicly recognised for the work that they do. This will hopefully lead to them being inspired to keep up with the good work and stand as encouragement for others just starting out or looking to join the profession. One day I hope that we won’t really need events like these as they’ll have served their purpose, and our industries will be freed from the stigma and issues that arise from having such a wide gender ratio.

I should also point out that throughout my time working as a developer, I have received a massive amount of help and support from both friends and colleagues, male and female, and I would really like to thank all of you! You’ve been brilliant!

But in the spirit of Ada Lovelace Day, I am going to highlight one person in particular who has helped me such a lot in past, both personally and professionally, and to whom I owe a great deal.

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I’ve been feeling bad about not posting for a while, but I’ve just realised how long it’s been!

All I can say is that it’s testament to how busy I’ve been recently. I take quite a bit of time tweaking my blog posts until I am happy with them, so as a result I’ve got a few unpublished posts and some ideas that as yet are unwritten, but I just either don’t have the time to complete them or just can’t get my head into the right frame of mind for writing.

As such things have been a bit quiet around here recently.

However I shall be taking the opportunity to hopefully kickstart everything again tomorrow, as it’s Ada Lovelace Day.

I meant to take part in this last year but couldn’t quite get everything up together in time. I shall be joining in this year though to help celebrate the contributions and achievements of women in science and technology.

Will you?