
- Mar 28
In 1951 Mary Coombs Became The First Female Commercial Programmer
In 1951 in England Mary Coombs became the first female commercial programmer at J Lyons & Co the family owned teashop business that was...

- Dec 17, 2021
Metaverses - SleepWalking Into Digital Dystopia?
The subtitle of my book 'The Programmer's Odyssey' is 'A Journey Through The Digital Age' but since the book's publication in 2016 the...

- Feb 24, 2021
Programming Back In The Day, A Picture That Would Grace The Book
This is such a great picture of a commercial programmer working on her program design back in the day and if I had seen it when I...

- Feb 24, 2021
Who writes open source software? Why? A Footnote To Page 116
I recently said I would summarize research into who contributes to open source software projects and why. I would have included such...

- Feb 23, 2021
Bill Gates and Moore's Law, An Addition To Page 162
If when I published my book I had been aware of Bill Gate's 1996 quote ...... "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the...