events Archives - Trisha Gee

Summer Reading 2023

November 13, 2024July 31, 2023 Trisha Gee

I’m about to jet off on my sunny* summer holidays, so it’s a good time to leave you with my recommended reading and learning. Are they all my books and content? Yes. But I do have discounts and deals for them, so that’s something, right? Working With Code in IntelliJ IDEA (Online course) I’ve just … Read more

Sevilla MUG March Madness

December 12, 2020March 19, 2014 Trisha Gee

Last night the Sevilla MUG had our March Madness event. This was our largest event yet, with 36 people signed up. Although the aim of March Madness is to have a MongoDB Engineer at all the user groups this month, that’s not such a big deal for us as I live here, so this was … Read more

First presentation at the Virtual JUG!

December 14, 2020November 22, 2013 Trisha Gee

Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting the very first session for vJUG, a new virtual Java User Group that allows us to span geographies when sharing talks and stories. I'm really interested in the vJUG idea, especially now I'm not in London - if we can find good ways to share knowledge without having to travel, that will help us reach people who don't normally go to conferences or don't have a local user group to go to. Not to mention cutting travel costs and saving the environment.

2013 is looking a lot busier than I planned…

December 14, 2020May 10, 2013 Trisha Gee

So, despite promising myself that I would only do one event a month for the rest of this year, looks like I'm going to be a bit busier than that.

Mike and I debut our new Disruptor presentation

October 15, 2020October 21, 2011 Trisha Gee

Last Tuesday Mike and I unveiled our brand shiny new presentation: Understanding the Disruptor, a Beginner's Guide to Hardcore Concurrency. This was a preview of the talk we'll be doing at JAX London on the 2nd November.

A video of the session is available, as are the slides. I promise not to say "so" anywhere near as many times when I repeat my performance at JAX (is there anything more painful than watching yourself on video?).

Effective Sketches

December 18, 2020September 4, 2011 Trisha Gee

On Thursday I was at Simon Brown's Effective Sketches session at Skillsmatter. Just because my pictures are pretty awesome doesn't mean there's no opportunity for continuous learning.

The points Simon made in the session really made sense to me, and I wish I could have had something like that as a primer when they taught us UML at university. Without the context of what the diagrams were supposed to mean, to convey, all the boxes and lines made no sense to me back then. I'm still not a fan of large chunks of UML because I think the convention sometimes gets in the way of real meaning.

My take-away points were:

My first public appearance

December 15, 2020May 30, 2011 Trisha Gee

I’m finally moving up from working behind the scenes to actually doing a (short) presentation for the LJC. I’m going to be giving a lightning talk on Wednesday at the AWS Elastic Beanstalk event, on the JCP – what it is and what our election to the executive committee means. Ben and Martin’s post gives … Read more