Author sightings, partner events, and other notable happenings.

Author Appearances

• Feb 9-11, Speakerconf 2010, Aruba
  TBA
  Brian Marick
• Feb 11, Moscone Center, San Francisco
  Macworld Expo
• Feb 17-18, PyCon 2010 Atlanta, Georgia
  Tutorial session: Test Driven Web Development
  Travis Swicegood
• Feb 22, Skills Matter, London
  “How to have your Domain Driven Design cake and eat it too”
  Dan Haywood
• Feb 22-24, JAX London conference
  “Agile Coaching Secrets”
  Rachel Davies, coauthor of Agile Coaching
• Mar 8-9, Devnexus, Atlanta, GA
  Java related topics
  Venkat Subramaniam
• Mar 9-12, Reston, VA
  iPhone Studio, Pragmatic Studios
  Daniel Steinberg
• Mar 9-12, Reston, VA
  Mastering Ruby and Rails Studios
  Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler
• Mar 15-17, Reston, VA
  Clojure Programming Studio
  Stuart Halloway
• Mar 16-17, Scandinavian Developer Conference, Göteborg Sweden
  “I Think I Finally Understand Mocks” and “Artisanal Retro-Futurism Crossed With Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism”
  Brian Marick
• Mar 18-29, SPARK IT, Bangalore
  Groovy and Java topics
  Venkat Subramaniam
• Apr 8-9, Philadelphia Emergent Conference
  Building DSLs with Groovy
  Venkat Subramaniam
• Apr 16, Minneapolis
  On topics around Groovy, and giving a kickoff talk at GR8 Conference
  Venkat Subramaniam
• Apr 20-23, Bangalore
  On topics around Java and Scala, and giving a keynote at Great Indian Developer Summit
  Venkat Subramaniam

USENIX Events

• Feb 23–26, The Fairmont San Jose, 170 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113.
  FAST ’10: The 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies. Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS. “FAST ’10 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.”

O’Reilly Events

• Feb 22-24, New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, 1535 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 USA
  TOC: O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing. The O’Reilly TOC Conference “will decipher the tools of change in this industry and help cut through the hype for a more profitable future in publishing.”
• Mar 30-Apr 1, San Jose Marriott, 301 South Market Street, San Jose, CA 95113
  Where 2.0: “Now in its sixth year, the Where 2.0 Conference is where the grassroots and leading edge developers building location-aware technology intersect with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge.”
• Apr 12-15, Santa Clara, CA
  MySQL Conference & Expo: “The largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide.”

Other Happenings

• Feb 9-13
  Macworld Expo, SF
• Feb 12
  Darwin Day: Charles Darwin’s 201st birthday.
• Feb 24
  Steve Jobs is 55.
• Feb 29
  Herman Hollerith’s 150th birthday. Celebrate it any time you want, since we don’t have an actual February 29 this year.
• Mar 12-21, Austin, TX
  SXSW 2010
• Mar 16
  Richard Stallman is 57.
• Apr 5
  Dean Kamen is 59.
• Apr 30
  The World Wide Web is 17.