[jdefarge]

"Julie Ann, Adria Richards and Shanley enter a bar: the bar just explodes because it's a symbol of the patriarchy."

But, seriously, I know various female programmers that I could trust not only my project, but my LIFE to. And as in the case of men, those are usually the low profile, highly productive, people. I doubt any "famous" developer this days in spite of gender/race/whatever. As with any hyped profession, there are a LOT of impostors trying to succeed without basic qualifications in computing. Hint: those are the ones who shout the loudest, have the highest number of followers on Twitter, but have very little, if any, REAL code on Github or any other public repositories. So... when the masks start to fell off they usually bail out their jobs loudly and pointing fingers to preserve their public personas. I doubt this is not the case of Julie Ann.

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", Abraham Lincoln