Calendar

Author sightings, partner events, and other notable happenings.

Author Appearances

Who’s where, and what for.

• Aug 3–5, JRubyConf, Washington, DC
  “JRuby, not just for hard-headed pragmatists anymore”
  Ian Dees, author of Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby and coauthor of Using JRuby
• Aug 8–12, Agile/XP 2011 10th Anniversary, Salt Lake City, UT
  Celebrating, we assume
  Andrew Hunt, author of Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
• Aug 8–12, Agile 2011, Salt Lake City, UT
  “Agile In a Nutshell” and “The Surprising Science behind Agile Leadership”
  Jonathan Rasmusson, author of The Agile Samurai
• Aug 8–12, Agile 2011, Salt Lake City, UT
  “Budgeting Black Hole: Predicting the Unpredictable ”
  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
• Aug 8–12, Agile 2011, Salt Lake City, UT
  Tim will be talking about whether pairing will ruin your company and also giving the fundamental agile apologetic.
  Tim Ottinger, co-author of Agile in a Flash
• Aug 8–12, Agile2011, Salt Lake City, UT
  Facilitating Open Jam
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Aug 11, Agile 2011, Salt Lake City, UT
  “The Only Agile Tools You'll Ever Need”
  Jeff Langr, co-author of Agile in a Flash (with Tim Ottinger) and Agile Java
• Aug 12–13, Cocoa Conf, Columbus, OH
  Keynote: “Your Code: The Director’s Cut” plus sessions “Mac OS X for iOS Developers” and “The Key to Blocks”
  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
• Aug 12–13, Cocoa Conf, Columbus, OH
  “Introduction to AV Foundation” and “Advanced AV Foundation”
  Chris Adamson, author of iPhone SDK Development
• Aug 12–13, Cocoaconf, Columbus, OH
  “Understanding View Controllers ” and “Drawing with Core Graphics on iOS ”
  Bill Dudney, author of Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone and iPhone SDK Development
• Aug 12–13, CocoaConf, Columbus, OH
  Emcee
  Dave Klein, author of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide
• Aug 20, Madison Ruby Conference, Madison, WI (Brian says: “And seriously, if you’re not going to this conference, you’re going to miss out on a lot of fun. I’ll buy a beer for any other Prags author/editor/publisher who says hello.  Come on! Come to Wisconsin before it gets cold again!”)
  “Building A Gem From Scratch”
  Brian Hogan, the author of Web Design for Developers and HTML5 and CSS3
• Aug 22–25, Pragmatic Studios, Denver, CO
  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
• Aug 28–Sept 2, Problem Solving Leadership, Albuquerque, NM (Email her for the registration form)
  “Problem Solving Leadership”
  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
• Sept 2, Reaktor Dev Day, Helsinki, Finland
  “Regex in Scala”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Sept 2, Reaktor Dev Day, Helsinki, Finland
  “Pomodoro Technique—Can you focus for 25 minutes?”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Sept 7, JavaZone 2011, Oslo, Norway
  “Regex—The Future Programming”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Sept 7–9, Heartland Developers Conference, Omaha, NE
  “Unleashing your Inner Hacker”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, Second Edition
• Sept 7–9, ALE2011, Berlin, Germany
  Opening Keynote
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Sept 9–11, New England Software Symposium, Boston, MA
  “Hello Groovy!,” “Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM”
  Dave Klein, author of Grails: A Quick-Start Guide
• Sept 11–14, SpeakerConf, Rome, Italy
  David says, “Knowing me, I’ll be able to report on what I talked about after the fact and not much sooner. :)”
  David Chelimsky, co-author of Thje RSpec Book and contributor to Advanced Rails Recipes
• Sept 12–13, Agile Program Management, Berlin, Germany
  “Agile Program 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
• Sept 15–16, Agile on the Beach, Falmouth, UK
  “Surfing the Agile Wave”
  Rachel Davies, co-author of Agile Coaching
• Sept 15–16, Agile Program Management, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  “Agile Program 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
• Sept 16, Innovate Virginia, Richmond VA
  Keynote
  Andrew Hunt, author of Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
• Sept 16, Innovate Virginia, Richmond VA
  “Building Analytics with Clojure”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, Second Edition
• Sept 16, Innovate Virginia, Richmond VA
  “Tightening Your Feedback Loop”
  Jared Richardson, author of Ship It!
• Sept 18–20, Strangeloop, St. Louis, MO
  “Clojure Part 2: Building Analytics with Clojure”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, Second Edition
• Sept 18–20, Strange Loop, St. Louis, MO
  “Airplane-Mode HTML5: Is your website mobile-ready?”
  Scott Davis, author of Groovy Recipes
• Sept 18–20, Strange Loop, St. Louis, MO
  “Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go”
  Brian Ketelsen, author of The Go Programming Language
• Sept 18–20, Strange Loop, St. Louis, MO
  “Functional Thinking”
  Neal Ford, coordinating the forthcoming Thoughtworks Anthology 2
• Sept 19, Strangeloop, St. Louis, MO
  “Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go”
  Brian Ketelsen, author of The Go Programming Language
• Oct 2, Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, CA
  “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies” and “Maatkit Tools—Like a MySQL Guru in a Box”
  Bill Karwin, author of SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming
• Oct 2–6, Java One, San Francisco, CA
  He’ll be representing Clojure in the script bowl.
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, Second Edition
• Oct 10, Web 2.0 Expo, New York, New York
  “The New Startup Stack”
  Trevor Burnham, author of CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development
• Oct 17–20, Zend PHP Conference, Santa Clara, CA
  “SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies” and “MySQL 5.5 InnoDB Tuning”
  Bill Karwin, author of SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming
• Oct 24–27, Pragmatic Studios, Reston, VA
  iOS 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 30–Nov 4, AYE Conference, Cary, NC
  “Project Bloat Doesn't Float,” “Replacing Management Myths with Effective Practices,” “Influence and Authority: Using Your Personal Power to Get Things Done,” “Adapting to Change in Your Life,” and a one-day workshop: “Making Geographically Distributed Projects Work”
  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

Upcoming events from our friends at O’Reilly.

• Sept 17–18, World Maker Faire, New York, NY
  World Maker Faire
• Sept 19–23, Strata NY, New York, NY
  O’Reilly Strata Conference: Making data work: “With hardcore technical sessions on parallel computing, machine learning, and interactive visualizations; case studies from finance, media, healthcare, and technology; and provocative reports from the leading edge, Strata Conference showcases the people, tools, and technologies that make data work.”
• Oct 9–11, Android Open, San Francisco, CA
  Android Open Conference: “Android Open is the first conference to cover the entire Android ecosystem. Whether you’re a developer, IT pro, business decision-maker, or marketer, you’ll find the latest and best information for maximizing the power of the Android platform.”
• Oct 11, TOC Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  Tools of Change Frankfort: “Tools of Change Frankfurt returns for a third year on... the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair (12-16 October)—connecting the people, content, and conversations along the cutting edge of global publishing and technology.”
• Oct 10–13, Web 2.0, New York, New York
  Web 2.0 Expo NY: “At the next Web 2.0 Expo, we’ll reveal the key pieces of the digital economy and the ways you can leverage important ideas for your own success. We’ll look specifically at web success stories in the New York startup ecosystem.”
• Oct 17–19, Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, CA
  Web 2.0 Summit: “Once each year, the Web 2.0 Summit brings together 1,000 senior executives from the worlds of technology, media, finance, telecommunications, entertainment, and the Internet. For 2011, our theme is ‘The Data Frame’—focusing on the impact of data in today’s networked economy.”

USENIX Events

What’s coming from our USENIX friends.

• Aug 8–12, USENIX Security ’11, San Francisco, CA
  The 20th USENIX Security Symposium. “USENIX Security ’11 brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks.” Not to mention a bunch of collocated conferences: 2011 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections, 4th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test, USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, 5th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, 2nd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy, 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security, and Sixth Workshop on Security Metrics.

Other Happenings

• Aug 9
  Alfred Aho, co-creator of AWK language, is 70.
• Aug 11
  Steve Wozniak is 61.
• Aug 20
  Game developer John Carmack is 41.
• Aug 21
  Linus Torvalds announces Linux project, 1991.
• Aug 29
  Boy genius Stephen Wolfram is 52.
• Sept 1
  This month the GNU Project turns 28.
• Sept 2
  First message sent over Internet, 1969.
• Sept 2
  sendmail creator Eric Allman is 56.
• Sept 4
  LISP creator and AI pioneer John McCarthy is 84.
• Sept 9
  C creator Dennis Ritchie is 70.
• Sept 10
  Space tourist Charles Simonyi is 63.
• Sept 27
  Perl creator Larry Wall is 57.
• Oct 2
  The Great Quux is 57.
• Oct 4
  The Free Software Foundation is 36.
• Oct 4
  Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, one of the inventors of the computer.
• Oct 5
  Linux is 20!
• Oct 6
  Adobe co-founder John Warnock is 71.
• Oct 12
  Birthday of Ole-Johan Dahl, co-creator of the Simula language and thus of object-oriented programming.
• Oct 16
  Mike Muuss, who invented Ping, was born on this date in 1958.
• Oct 25
  Peter Naur, the N in BNF, is 83.
• Oct 28
  Former software executive Bill Gates is 56.
• 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.

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