Calendar
Author sightings, partner events, and other notable happenings.
Author Appearances
- Nov 5–7, Northern Virginia Software Symposium, Reston, VASeveral talks on Groovy and GrailsDave Klein, author of Grails: a Quick-Start Guide
- Nov 7–11, AYE Conference: Exploring Human Systems in Action, Phoenix, AZMany sessionsEsther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors and Agile Retrospectives
- Nov 7–11, AYE Conference, Phoenix, ArizonaSeveral talksJohanna 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, LAMCChad Fowler, author of The Passionate Programmer
- Nov 11–13, RubyConf, New Orleans, LAKeynoteDave 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 workshopBruce Tate, author of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
- Nov 12–14, Great Lakes Software Symposium, Chicago, ILVarious topicsDave Klein, author of Grails: a Quick-Start Guide
- Nov 12–14, Great Lakes Software Symposium, Chicago, IL“Improving Customer Conversations” and several other talksEsther Derby, author of Behind Closed Doors and Agile Retrospectives
- Nov 12–14, Great Lakes Software Symposium, Chicago, ILSeveral talks on GrailsDave Klein, author of Grails: a Quick-Start Guide
- Nov 13, Marion Correctional Institute (MCI) Technical Conference, Marion, OHKeynote and a session on test-driven developmentJeff Langr, co-author of the Agile in a Flash card deck
- 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, FLThree Agile talksJohanna 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, GermanyKeynote on “Resolving Resistance to Change” and “Agile Coaching Skills” workshopRachel 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, UKWorkshop Seminar: “Agile in the Workplace”Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
- Dec 2–3, Agile, Lean & Kanban EXchange, London, UKSpeakingRachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
- Dec 7–10, Pragmatic Studios, Denver, COiPhone/iPad Programming StudioDaniel 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, COPragmatic Rails Studio with Dave ThomasChad 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
O’Reilly Events
- Nov 15–17, San Francisco, CAWeb 2.0 Summit: An invitation-only event, Web 2.0 Summit brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together to discuss and debate the most critical issues and strategies driving the Internet economy now and in the near future.
USENIX Events
- Nov 7–12, San Jose, CALisa ’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, IndiaMiddleware 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
- Nov 8Bill Joy is 56.
- Nov 6Jerry Yang is 42.
- Nov 22Randall Schwartz, aka merlyn, is 49. He may be hoarding helium.
- Nov 22PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf is 42.
- Nov 22Charles Simonyi’s wedding anniversary.
- Nov 27Andrew Flugelman, inventor of shareware, would have been 67 today.
- Dec 3John Backus would have been 86.
- Dec 4Eric Raymond, aka ESR, is 53.
- Dec 9Grace Hopper’s 104th birthday.
- Dec 10Ada Lovelace’s 195th birthday.
- Dec 10Ada, the programming language, is 30 today.
- Dec 16John Bardeen and Walter Brattain created the first transistor on this day in 1947.
- Dec 17Ken Iverson, creator of APL, would have been 90 today.
- Dec 17Les Earnest, inventor of first spell checker and of the finger protocol, is 80.
- Dec 23Birthday of Bob Miner, who wrote Oracle’s original database software.
- Dec 25Richard Greenblat, famed MIT hacker, is 66.
- Dec 26Charles Babbage’s 219th birthday.
- Dec 28Linus Torvalds is 41.
- Dec 30Bjarne Stroustrup is 60.
- Dec 31Leonard Adleman, the A in RSA encryption, is 65.
- Jan 10MUD co-creator Richard Bartle is 51.
- Jan 10Donald Knuth, who continues to inspire authors who are having trouble finishing that book, is 73.
- Jan 11Tony Hoare, author of Quicksort, is 77.
- Jan 20Sims creator Will Wright is 51.
- Jan 21Paul Allen is 58.
- Jan 22On this day in 1984, Superbowl viewers watched a woman with a hammer smash Big Brother.
- Jan 24Alain Colmerauer, Prolog’s creator, is 70.
- Jan 25Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani is 56.
- Jan 31Guido van Rossum, author of Python and possessor of an excellent last name for a programmer (Google “R.U.R.”), is 55.
