Author sightings, partner events, and other notable happenings.

Author Appearances

• April 7, online
  “Don't Play Schedule Games: Recognizing and Ending the Schedule Games We Play”
  Johanna Rothman, the author of Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• April 8, Agile Central Europe conference, Krakow, Poland
  “Retrospectives”
  Rachel Davies, the author of Agile Coaching
• Apr 8, New England Java Users Group
  “An Experiential Introduction to Agile”
  Johanna Rothman, the author of Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• Apr 8-9, Philly Emerging Technology
  I think I finally understand mocks
  Brian Marick, the author of Programming Cocoa with Ruby: Create Compelling Mac Apps Using RubyCocoa and Everyday Scripting with Ruby: for Teams, Testers, and You
• Apr 8-9, Philadelphia Emergent Conference
  Building DSLs with Groovy
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy, and Programming Scala
• Apr 10, Twin Cities Code Camp, Minneapolis, MN
  “HTML5 and CSS3 Today”
  Brian Hogan, the author of Web Design for Developers
• April 11-14, 360iDev, San Jose, CA
  TBD
  Marcus Zarra, the author of Core Data
• Apr 11-14, 360iDev, San Jose, CA
  “Core Audio: Don't Be Afraid To Play It LOUD!”
  Chris Adamson, the author of iPhone SDK Development
• Apr 12-15, MySQL Conference & Expo, Santa Clara
  “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies”
  Bill Karwin, the author of SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming
• Apr 14-16, Reston, VA
  “Pragmatic Studio: Cocoa Programming for Snow Leopard”
  Daniel Steinberg, the author of Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers, and co-author of iPad Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for iPhone Developers
• April 14-17, First Lego League World Robotics Championship, Atlanta, GA
  Technical Judge—Robot Design
  Krishna Sankar, the author of Building Clouds with Amazon Web Services
• Apr 15-17, Palmetto Open Source Conference, Columbia, SC
  TBD
  Andy Lester, the author of Land the Tech Job You Love
• April 16, ACCU conference, Oxford, UK
  Workshop: “Understanding User Stories”
  Rachel Davies, the author of Agile Coaching
• April 16, GR8 , Minneapolis, Minnesota
  “Grails Quick-Start”
  Dave Klein, the author of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide
• Apr 16, Minneapolis
  On topics around Groovy, and giving a kickoff talk at GR8 Conference
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy, and Programming Scala
• Apr 16-17, Citicon: Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, RTP, NC
  TBD
  Jared Richardson, the author of Ship It!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
• Apr 20-23, Bangalore
  On topics around Java and Scala, and giving a keynote at Great Indian Developer Summit
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy, and Programming Scala
• Apr 22, Manchester Geek Night, Thoughtworks UK
  “Naked Objects”
  Dan Haywood, the author of Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects
• April 24-25, Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference, Seattle, WA
  “Core Location and Map Kit: Bringing Your Own Maps” and “In-App Purchase: Best/Worst Thing Ever”
  Chris Adamson, the author of iPhone SDK Development
• Apr 26, London
  “DevDay for iPhone”
  Daniel Steinberg, the author of Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers, and co-author of iPad Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for iPhone Developers
• April 26-27, University of Washington
  TBD
  Marcus Zarra, the author of Core Data
• Apr 27-30, Reston, VA
  Mastering Ruby and Rails Studios
  Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler, the author of The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
• Apr 28, Geneva
  “DevDay for iPhone”
  Daniel Steinberg, the author of Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers, and co-author of iPad Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for iPhone Developers
• May 2-7, ???
  teaching PSL with Esther Derby and Jerry Weinberg
  Johanna Rothman, the author of Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• May 10-11, Agila Sverige 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
  “Timboxed Thinking”
  Staffan Nöteberg, the author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• May 11-14, Chicago, IL
  “Pragmatic Studio iPhone Programming”
  Daniel Steinberg, the author of Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers, and co-author of iPad Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for iPhone Developers
• May 11-14, Reston, VA
  Mastering Ruby and Rails Studios
  Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler, the author of The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
• May 11-14, Obtiva's Ruby on Rails TDD Boot Camp, Chicago, IL
  Teaching
  Noel Rappin, the author of Rails Test Prescriptions
• May 12-14, GeeCON 2010, Poznan, Poland
  “Pomodoro Technique”
  Staffan Nöteberg, the author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• May 12-14, Reston, VA
  Clojure Programming Studio
  Stuart Halloway, the author of Programming Clojure and Rails for Java Developers
• May 14-15, Open Agile conference, Bucharest, Romania
  TBD
  Rachel Davies, the author of Agile Coaching
• May 16~19, Software Practice Advancement 2010, London
  “Customizable UIs with Naked Objects”
  Dan Haywood, the author of Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects
• May 17-20, Agile Oresund, Malmo, Sweden
  “Agile Management: The Essence of Leadership”
  Johanna Rothman, the author of Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• May 18, Software Practice Advancement 2010, London
  “Retrospectives Refactored”
  Rachel Davies, the author of Agile Coaching
• May 18-21, TEK-X PHP Conference, Chicago
  “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies” and “Models for Hierarchical Data with SQL and PHP”
  Bill Karwin, the author of SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming
• May 23, Gateway Software Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri
  “Grails Deep Dive” and “Grails Takes Care of the REST”
  Dave Klein, the author of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide
• June 1-2, DevSum 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
  “Pomodoro Technique”
  Staffan Nöteberg, the author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• June 1-4, XP2010, Trondheim, Norway
  Workshop: “Trust and Culture”
  Rachel Davies, the author of Agile Coaching
• June 6-11, Better Software Conference/Agile Development Practices, Las Vegas, NV
  “It’s the People, It’s Always the People”
  Johanna Rothman, the author of Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• June 8, Embedded Systems Conference, Chicago, IL
  “Testing Embedded User Interfaces”
  Ian Dees, the author of Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby
• June 8, Sacramento Java User Group
  “Grails Integration Strategies”
  Dave Klein, the author of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide
• June 14-17, UberConf , Denver, CO
  Continuous Testing, TDD, and Iterationless Development
  Ben Rady

USENIX Events

• Apr 27, San Jose, CA
  LEET ’10: 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
• Apr 27, San Jose, CA
  INM/WREN ’10: 2010 Internet Network Management Workshop/ Workshop on Research on Enterprise Networking
• Apr 27, San Jose, CA
  IPTPS ’10: 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Apr 28-30, San Jose, CA
  NSDI ’10: 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation

O’Reilly Events

• Apr 12-15, Santa Clara, CA
  MySQL Conference & Expo: “The largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide.”
• May 25-27, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
  Gov 2.0 Expo: “Gov 2.0 Expo will showcase the real-world application of Web 2.0 technologies in government and municipal sectors, featuring a practical program that will teach government employees and contractors how to apply technology best practices to foster greater transparency, ef? ciency, and collaboration.”

Other Happenings

• Apr 14
  Matz is 45.
• Apr 30
  The World Wide Web is 17.
• May 6-7, Oklahoma City, OK
  Red Dirt Ruby Conference
• May 17
  Alan Kay is 70.
• May 19
  James Gosling is 55.
• May 26
  Ward Cunningham is 61.
• June 8
  Tim Berners-Lee is 55.
• June 23
  Vint Cerf is 67.
• June 30
  Lynne Jolitz is 49.