Today is March 24th: Ada Lovelace Day. I first heard about this event last year, via a co-worker’s blog, but it was too late at the time for me to come up with a contribution myself. As it stands, I almost missed this year, too!
In any event, the purpose of Ada Lovelace Day is to write a post celebrating the achievements of women (or a particular woman) in the technology industry and thus, I would like to call out Tess Ferrandez, ASP.NET escalation engineer extraordinaire.
But this post isn’t about Ferrandez’s achievements in the domain of ASP.NET, specifically. Instead, this is about commending her for her work in educating the development community about debugging in the .NET environment. Ferrandez has been at Microsoft for more than a decade, working with .NET technology since it was in alpha, and offering her knowledge to the community at large through blog posts, podcasts, interviews and by speaking at conferences. She often discusses techniques for diagnosing obscure bugs or memory issues, providing great insight into the tools used or the systems affected — and she’s always informative, easy to follow, and extremely helpful.
I, personally, can attribute the entirety of my understanding of WinDbg and SOS directly to her, as well as a good portion of my understanding of the .NET internals. I am certainly not the only developer to have benefited from her work. So I want to congratulate you, Tess Ferrandez, on what I feel is the greatest achievement of all: teaching others through your own wisdom and experience.
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I second that! I too have gained invaluable insight from Tess’s works. Woman or not, she is one of the best.