Gail Ollis
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where they keep going back
- ACCU5 editions2018–2025
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- Cecy Correa8 talks
- Dylan Beattie81 talks
- Heidi Waterhouse49 talks
- Kerri Miller19 talks
- Michael Feathers23 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Automate! | ACCU 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Research finds 89% of experienced developers pick automates tasks as the single most helpful teammate behaviour, because automation acts as executable… | ||
| Keynote: Psychology of Software Development: We’re Only Human After All | ACCU 2023 | 2023-04-19 |
Humans keep the same 1.4 kilos of jelly brains but work in a far more complex 2023 pipeline than the 1970 handoff model, so communication and psychology… | ||
| Preparing for Professionalism in Programming: A Student Perspective | ACCU 2023 | 2023-04-19 |
Final-year module runs like a mini conference: students submit bio plus three proposals, peer-review peers and act as the programme committee, then prepare… | ||
| Do You Want Fries With That? From Punched Cards to DevOps and Beyond | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
Argues that security is treated as an add‑on rather than built into developer workflows, using a staged punch‑card pipeline demo (analyst → coder → punch‑card… | ||
| Clacks - Sending Home A Tribute | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
A short live reading of a passage from Going Postal that shows how the clacks network uses semaphore shutters and an overhead code with flags like G, U and N… | ||
| Helping Developers to Help Each Other | ACCU 2019 | 2019-04-10 |
PhD research interviews with 28 experienced developers (combined ~400 years) produce a ranked catalogue of peer-impact behaviours and show 89% agreement that… | ||
| What’s new about fake news? | ACCU 2018 | 2018-04-11 |
Explains that fake headlines like Pope Francis supporting Trump are modern forms of long‑standing propaganda, spreads because social platforms let one click… | ||
| Folklore and fantasy in the information age | PyCon UK 2016 | 2016-09-15 |
Argument that there are no silver bullets and methods must match the actual problem, supported by interviews and literature review plus case examples… | ||
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