Author sightings, partner events, and other notable happenings.

We often want to call your attention to a particular event, and this month it’s this Clojure Conference in Raleigh. Lots of good people there and all the Clojure expertise in the world, apparently.

• Nov 10–12, clojure-conj, Raleigh, NC
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  Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra, co-authors of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition (among others)

Author Appearances

Who’s where, and what for.

• Sept 7, JavaZone 2011, Oslo, Norway
  “Regex—The Future Programming”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Sept 7–9, ALE Unconference, Berlin, Germany
  Opening Keynote
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• Sept 8, HDC 11, Omaha, NE
  “Unleashing your Inner Hacker”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition
• Sept 9, HDC 11, Omaha, NE
  “Mo Cores, Mo Problems”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition
• 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
  “Seeing the graph through the nodes”
  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, 2011,    Skills Matter, London, UK
  MarkLogic User Group London (MUGL)
  Ron Hitchens, author of    Getting Started With XQuery
• Sept 15–16, Agile On The Beach, Falmouth, UK
  “Surfing the Agile Wave”
  Rachel Davies, 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
  “The Art of the Spike”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition
• 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, Strangeloop, St. Louis, MO
  “Building Analytics with Clojure”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd 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
  “Functional Thinking”
  Neal Ford, coordinating the forthcoming Thoughtworks Anthology 2
• Sept 19, 2011, Yahoo! Program Management Council, Santa Clara, CA
  “Managing for Collaboration”
  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 19, Strangeloop, St. Louis, MO
  “Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go”
  Brian Ketelsen, author of The Go Programming Language
• Sept 27, Agile NYC, New York, NY
  “From Preaching and Training to Teaching and Learning”
  David Hussman, author of Cutting an Agile Groove
• Sept 28, Lean Tribe Gathering, Stockholm, Sweden
  “Pomodoro Technique”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Sept 29, Agile Boston, Boston, MA
  “From Preaching and Training to Teaching and Learning”
  David Hussman, author of Cutting an Agile Groove
• Sept 29–30, Agile Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  “The Role of an Agile Coach”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• 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 3, Mini SPA, Manchester, UK
  “Improving Trust in Teams”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• Oct 4–6, Agile Business Conference, London, UK
  “Agile Retrospectives”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• Oct 5, Java One, San Francisco, CA
  Script Bowl
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition
• Oct 10, Web 2.0 Expo, New York, New York
  “The New Startup Stack”
  Trevor Burnham, author of CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development
• Oct 10–12, Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR
  “Dirty Tricks in the Name of Quality”
  Ian Dees, author of Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby and co-author of Using JRuby
• Oct 11–13, Scrum Gathering, London, UK
  “Open Space Facilitation”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• Oct 14, MagRails, Manchester, UK
  “The Quest for Agility”
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• 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
• Nov 6–11, Better Software Conference East, Orlando, FL
  Three tutorials: “Tuning and Improving Your Agility,” “Agile Project Design: Building Strong Backlogs,” “Agile Estimation and Planning: Scrum, Kanban, and Beyond”
  David Hussman, author of Cutting an Agile Groove
• Nov 7–9, Clojure/conj, Raleigh, NC
  “(with-training Clojure/conj)”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition
• Nov 16, QConSF, San Francisco, CA
  “One () to rule them all”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition
• Nov 16, Agilis, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Workshop
  Rachel Davies, author of Agile Coaching
• Nov 18, SCNA, Chicago, IL
  “Simplicity”
  Aaron Bedra, co-author of Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition
• Nov 22, Best of DevSum, Stockholm, Sweden
  “Regex in .NET”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated

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.”
• Nov 8–9, Velocity Europe, Berlin, Germany
  Velocity Europe: “Velocity Europe is the convergence of performance and site reliability experts and rock stars who share the unique experience that can only be gained by operating at scale. At Velocity, leading experts share their knowledge about how you can make your site scalable, reliable, and fast.”

USENIX Events

What’s coming from our USENIX friends.

• Sept 21, LISA Data Storage Day, Grand Rapids, MI
  LISA Data Storage Day: Latest Trends in Storage Networking: “Data Storage Day is a one-day event focused on the current trends in the storage industry. Registration is free as a way of introducing newcomers to the LISA conference.”
• Sept 22, LISA Data Storage Day, Downers Grove, IL
  LISA Data Storage Day: Latest Trends in Storage Networking: “The goal of Data Storage Day is to explain the trends and developments in the storage industry in the language spoken by hands-on IT professionals.”
• Oct 23–26, SOSP 2011, Cascais, Portugal
  23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles: “The biennial ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles is the world’s premier forum for researchers, developers, programmers, and teachers of computer systems technology. Academic and industrial participants present research and experience papers that cover the full range of theory and practice of computer systems software.”

Other Happenings

• Sept 5
  Freddy Mercury would have been 65 today.
• 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.
• Nov 1
  This month the OLPC is 6 years old.
• Nov 1
  Mitch Kapor is 61.
• Nov 8
  Bill Joy is 57.
• Nov 6
  Jerry Yang is 43.
• Nov 10
  Bert Bos, co-creator of Cascading Style Sheets, is 48.
• Nov 10
  Richard Brodie, creator of Microsoft Word, is 52.
• Nov 18
  Pamela Kyle Crossley, historian and creator of SIMPLE, is 56.
• Nov 19
  Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and lead developer, is 33.
• Nov 22
  Randall Schwartz is 50.
• Nov 22
  PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf is 43.
• Nov 22
  And it’s Charles Simonyi’s wedding anniversary.