Author sightings, partner events, and other notable happenings.

Author Appearances

• Oct 5–6, Agile Business Conference, London, UK
  “Building a Culture of Trust”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• Oct 7, Milwaukee Jobcamp 4, Milwaukee, WI
  “Effective Interviewing from the Hiring Manager’s Point of View”
  Andy Lester, author of Land the Tech Job You Love
• Oct 9–10, Twin Cities Code Camp, Minneapolis, MN
  “Web Development with Ruby—From Simple To Complex” and c“Building Offline Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Web Standards”
  Brian Hogan, author of Web Design for Developers and HTML5 and CSS3
• Oct 13–15, Strange Loop, St. Louis, MO
  “Outside-In TDD in Clojure”
  Brian Marick, author of Programming Cocoa with Ruby and Everyday Scripting with Ruby
• Oct 14, Babson, CIMS, Babson Park, MA
  “Project Portfolio Management”
  Johanna Rothman, 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
• Oct 14–15, Strange Loop, St. Louis, MO
  “Mary Poppins meets the Matrix”
  Bruce Tate, author of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• Oct 14–15, Agile Cambridge conference, UK
  Keynote on “Building trust in Agile teams” and workshop on “Creating Agile Environments”
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Oct 15–16, Software Craftsmanship North America, Chicago, IL
  “McDonalds, Six Sigma, and Offshore Outsourcing—Unexpected Sources of Insight”
  Chad Fowler, author of The Passionate Programmer
• Oct 15–16, No Fluff Just Stuff Twin Cities Software Symposium, Minneapolis, MN
  Several talks
  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
• Oct 16–17, Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  “Mastering Media with AV Foundation”
  Chris Adamson, co-author of iPhone SDK Development
• Oct 18, Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC), Portland, OR
  “Document Your Software Project”
  Ian Dees, co-author of Using JRuby and author of Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby
• Oct 19, Boston SPIN
  Speaking
  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
• Oct 19–22, SpringOne 2GX, Chicago, IL
  “Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM” and “Grails Integration Strategies”
  Dave Klein, author of Grails: a Quick-Start Guide
• Oct 20, MongoDB Conference, Chicago, IL
  “PyMongo and Python Development”
  Brendan McAdams, author of the forthcoming MongoDB: A Quick Start Guide
• Oct 23, Linux Day Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
  “A Metaprogramming Spell Book”
  Paolo Perrotta, author of Metaprogramming Ruby
• Oct 25–27, Pragmatic Studios, Chicago, IL
  Pragmatic Rails Studio with Dave Thomas
  Chad Fowler, author of The Passionate Programmer
• Oct 25–28, Pragmatic Studios, Chicago, IL
  “iPhone Studio”
  Daniel Steinberg, co-author of iPad Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for iPhone Developers and author of Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers
• Oct 27, RubyConf Brasil, São Paulo, Brasil
  “Maintaining Balance while Reducing Duplication”
  David Chelimsky, author of The RSpec Book
• Oct 29–30, RubyConf Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
  “Maintaining Balance while Reducing Duplication”
  David Chelimsky, author of The RSpec Book
• Nov 1–4, Much Ado About Agile, Vancouver, BC
  “Creating an Adaptable Life” and “Making Geographically Distributed Projects Work”
  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
• Nov 1, ZendCon, Santa Clara, CA
  “Cloudy with a chance of PHP” along with Josh Holmes and Eli White
  Travis Swicegood, author of Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
• Nov 1–4, ZendCon, Santa Clara, CA
  “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies” and “Requirements: The Last Bottleneck”
  Bill Karwin, author of SQL Antipatterns
• Nov 1–4, Agile Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
  “Card, CONVERSATION, Confirmation: Improving Customer Conversations” and “From Big Boss to Steward Leader: Becoming an Agile Manager”
  Esther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors and Agile Retrospectives
• Nov 3, Agile Project Leadership Network, Calgary, Ontario, CA
  “How You Lead”
  Jonathan Rasmusson, author of The Agile Samurai
• Nov 3, ZendCon, Santa Clara, CA
  “Pragmatic Guide to Git”
  Travis Swicegood, author of Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
• Nov 5–7, Northern Virginia Software Symposium, Reston, VA
  Several talks on Groovy and Grails
  Dave Klein, author of Grails: a Quick-Start Guide
• Nov 7–11, AYE Conference: Exploring Human Systems in Action, Phoenix, AZ
  Many sessions
  Esther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors and Agile Retrospectives
• Nov 7–11, AYE Conference, Phoenix, Arizona
  Several talks
  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
• Nov 10, Øredev, Malmö, Sweden
  “Building Trust”
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Nov 11, RubyConf, New Orleans, LA
  “Maintaining Balance while Reducing Duplication”
  David Chelimsky, author of The RSpec Book
• Nov 11–13, RubyConf, New Orleans, LA
  (organizer)
  Chad Fowler, author of The Passionate Programmer
• Nov 11–13, RubyConf, New Orleans, LA
  (keynote)
  Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer
• Nov 12, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Learning Technology Center, Milwaukee, WI
  “Seven Languages in Seven Hours” full day workshop
  Bruce Tate, author of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• Nov 12–14, Great Lakes Software Symposium, Chicago, IL
  Various topics
  Dave Klein, author of Grails: a Quick-Start Guide
• Nov 12–14, Great Lakes Software Symposium, Chicago, IL
  “Improving Customer Conversations” and several other talks
  Esther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors and Agile Retrospectives
• Nov 12–14, Great Lakes Software Symposium, Chicago, IL
  Several talks on Grails
  Dave Klein, author of Grails: a Quick-Start Guide
• Nov 15–17, Scrum Gathering, Amsterdam, NL
  “A Deep-Dive into Agile Coaching”
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Nov 14–19, Agile Development Practices East, Orlando, FL
  Three Agile talks
  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
• Nov 15–18, Agile Development Practices East, Orlando, FL
  “The Value of Value Story Cards”
  Jared Richardson, author of Ship It!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
• Nov 19, Italian Agile Day, Genova, Italy
  “The BDD Live Show” and “Workshop: Ruby for Java programmers”
  Paolo Perrotta, author of Metaprogramming Ruby
• Nov 25–27, XP Days Germany, Hamburg, Germany
  Keynote on “Resolving Resistance to Change” and “Agile Coaching Skills” workshop
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Nov 30–Dec 3, The Rich Web Experience, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  “Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM”
  Dave Klein, author of Grails: a Quick-Start Guide
• Dec 1–3, Summit 2010 Europe, London, UK
  Workshop Seminar: “Agile in the Workplace”
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Dec 2–3, Agile, Lean & Kanban EXchange, London, UK
  Speaking
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Dec 7–10, Pragmatic Studios, Denver, CO
  iPhone/iPad Programming Studio
  Daniel Steinberg, co-author of iPad Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for iPhone Developers and author of Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers
• Dec 8–10, Pragmatic Studios, Denver, CO
  Pragmatic Rails Studio with Dave Thomas
  Chad Fowler, author of The Passionate Programmer
• Dec 9, IIBA, Boston Chapter, Waltham, MA
  “The Role of the BA in an Agile Project”
  Johanna Rothman, 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

USENIX Events

• Oct 27, Atlanta, GA
  CC ’10: USENIX Education on the Road: Georgia: a new program that will bring USENIX-quality tutorials for free to a city near you.
• Nov 7–12, San Jose, CA
  Lisa ’10: 24th Large Installation System Administration Conference. The 2010 training program includes over 45 classes and they’re again offering series of classes focusing on some of the most important topics you’ll encounter.
• Nov 29–Dec 3, Bangalore, India
  Middleware 2010: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference. The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design, construction, and uses of middleware.

Other Happenings

• Oct 2
  The Great Quux is 56.
• Oct 4
  The Free Software Foundation is 35.
• Oct 4
  Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, one of the inventors of the computer.
• Oct 5
  Linux is 19.
• Oct 6
  Adobe co-founder John Warnock is 70.
• Oct 12
  Birthday of Ole-Johan Dahl, co-creator of the Simula language and thus of object-oriented programming.
• Oct 15
  David Heinemeier Hansson is now over 30, hence not to be trusted.
• Oct 16
  Mike Muuss, who invented Ping, was born on this date in 1958.
• Oct 17
  October Manifesto issued by Tsar Nicholas II in an unsuccessful attempt to undermine the Russian Revolution. (October 30 according to the Gregorian Calendar.)
• Oct 19
  Steve Peter’s birthday. I had to mention that, because he proofread the issue. If you find any errors, they’re his fault.
• Oct 25
  Peter Naur, the N in BNF, is 82.
• Oct 28
  Former software executive Bill Gates is 55.
• Oct 29
  On this date in 1969, ARPAnet first linked Doug Engelbart’s lab at SRI with Leonard Kleinrock’s at UCLA.
• Oct 31
  The traditional date for the leaking of confidential internal Microsoft documents outlining strategies for undermining open source software.
• Nov 1
  This month the OLPC is 5 years old.
• Nov 1
  Mitch Kapor is 60.
• Nov 8
  Bill Joy is 56.
• Nov 6
  Jerry Yang is 42.
• Nov 22
  Randall Schwartz, aka merlyn, is 49. He may be hoarding helium.
• Nov 22
  PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf is 42.
• Nov 22
  Charles Simonyi’s wedding anniversary.
• Nov 27
  Andrew Flugelman, inventor of shareware, would have been 67 today.
• Dec 3
  John Backus would have been 86.
• Dec 4
  Eric Raymond, aka ESR, is 53.
• Dec 9
  Grace Hopper’s 104th birthday.
• Dec 10
  Ada Lovelace’s 195th birthday.
• Dec 10
  Ada, the programming language, is 30 today.
• Dec 16
  John Bardeen and Walter Brattain created the first transistor on this day in 1947.
• Dec 17
  Ken Iverson, creator of APL, would have been 90 today.
• Dec 17
  Les Earnest, inventor of first spell checker and of the finger protocol, is 80.
• Dec 23
  Birthday of Bob Miner, who wrote Oracle’s original database software.
• Dec 25
  Richard Greenblat, famed MIT hacker, is 66.
• Dec 26
  Charles Babbage’s 219th birthday.
• Dec 28
  Linus Torvalds is 41.
• Dec 30
  Bjarne Stroustrup is 60.
• Dec 31
  Leonard Adleman, the A in RSA encryption, is 65.