Author sightings, partner events, and other notable happenings.

Author Appearances

• July 9–10, Agile Coaches Gathering, Bletchley Park, UK
  “Facilitating Open Space”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• July 13, Uniforum Chicago
  “What’s New in Perl 5.10 and 5.12”
  Andy Lester, author of Land the Tech Job You Love
• July 13, Agile Yorkshire in Leeds, UK
  “Building Trust on Agile Teams”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• July 17, Ruby Midwest, Kansas City, MO
  “Pragmatic Guide to Git”
  Travis Swicegood, author of Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
• July 19–23, OSCON
  “Building a NoSQL Data Cloud”
  Krishna Sankar, author of the forthcoming Building Clouds with Amazon Web Services
• Aug 9–13, Agile 2010, Orlando, FL
  “Improving Customer Conversations” and “Manager as Work System Designer: 13 Essential Questions”
  Esther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management; Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
• Aug 9–13, Agile 2010, Orlando, FL
  “Agile Coaches Dojo” and “Refactor Your Retrospectives”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• Aug 9–13, Agile 2010, Orlando, FL
  “Exploring Coaching From Multiple Dimensions and Levels,” Agile Managers: The Essence of Leadership,” and “Agile Program Management: Another Approach to Large Projects”
  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
• August 10, Uniforum Chicago
  “Crash Course in Git”
  Andy Lester, author of Land the Tech Job You Love
• Aug 28, RubyKaigi 2010, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
  “A Metaprogramming Spell Book (for Ruby and Rails)”
  Paolo Perrotta, author of Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros
• Sep 24, JAX London in London, UK
  “Coaching Teams over Acceptance Testing Hurdles”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching

USENIX Events

• Aug 11–13, 19th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, D.C.
  Whether you’re a researcher, a system administrator, or a policy wonk, come to USENIX Security ’10 to find out how changes in computer security are going to affect you. The 3-day program includes an innovative technical program, starting with a keynote address by Roger G. Johnston of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory; invited talks, including “Toward an Open and Secure Platform for Using the Web,” by Will Drewry, Google; a refereed papers track, including 30 papers presenting the newest advances; and a Poster session displaying the latest preliminary research. Gain valuable knowledge on a variety of subject areas, including detection of network attacks, privacy, Internet security, Web security, and more. Register by July 19 and save! Additional discounts available!

O’Reilly Events

• July 19–23, Portland, OR
  At OSCON you’ll participate in hundreds of sessions covering open source languages and platforms, practical tutorials that go deep into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products, fun networking events and activities, and the best “hallway track” around.

Other Happenings

• July 9
  Browser pioneer Marc Andreessen is 39.
• July 16
  VisiCalc co-creator Dan Bricklin is 59.
• Aug 9
  Alfred Aho, co-creator of AWK language, is 69.
• Aug 11
  Steve Wozniak is 60.
• Aug 20
  Game developer John Carmack is 40.
• Aug 21
  Linus Torvalds announces Linux project, 1991.
• Aug 29
  Boy genius Stephen Wolfram is 51.
• Sept 1
  This month the GNU Project turns 27.
• Sept 2
  First message sent over Internet, 1969.
• Sept 2
  sendmail creator Eric Allman is 55.
• Sept 4
  LISP creator and AI pioneer John McCarthy is 83.
• Sept 9
  C creator Dennis Ritchie is 69.
• Sept 10
  Space tourist Charles Simonyi is 62.
• Sept 27
  Perl creator Larry Wall is 56.