Author sightings, partner events, and other notable happenings.

The Garage

Seventy-three years ago this month, on January 1, 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard signed the papers to create their historic partnership, flipping a coin to decide whose name would go first. The year before they had rented rooms at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. Dave and Lucille had the downstairs apartment, the landlady lived upstairs, Bill moved into the shed in back, and the garage became the first home of Hewlett-Packard and the “Birthplace of Silicon Valley.”

And so a legend was born.

Here’s what’s coming up in the next three months:

Author Appearances

Who’s where, and what for.

• Jan 11, CodeMash, Sandusky, OH
  PreCompiler: Mac OS X for iOS Developers
  Daniel H Steinberg, Dim Sum Thinking
• Jan 11-13, CodeMash, Sandusky, OH
  “Developing With iOS 5” and “iOS Networking: Bonjour, iCloud!”
  Chris Adamson, co-author of iPhone SDK Development
• Jan 13, CodeMash, Sandusky, OH
  Session: Storyboarding in iOS 5
  Daniel H Steinberg, Dim Sum Thinking
• Jan 18, London Scala Users’ Group, London, UK
  ScalaMock: “Power” Mocking for Scala
  Paul Butcher, author of Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code
• Jan 19, APLN Houston, Houston, TX
  talk on Refactoring
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM
• Jan 20, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lubar School of Business, Milwaukee, WI
  iOS 5 Quickstart
  Daniel H Steinberg, Dim Sum Thinking
• Jan 21, Colorado Code Retreat, Denver, CO
  topic TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM
• Jan 23-26, Pragmatic Studio, Denver, CO
  iPhone/iPad Programming
  Daniel H Steinberg, Dim Sum Thinking
• Jan 23–27, OOP 2012, Munich, Germany
  Tutorial: “Influence and Authority: Using Your Personal Power to Get Things Done,” Talk: “Six Behaviors to Consider When Hiring for an Agile Team”
  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
• Jan 24, By the best from DevSum, Stockholm, Sweden
  “Advanced Regex in .NET”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Feb 13–15, Jfokus, Stockholm, Sweden
  “Regex Applied—when regex is a winner”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Feb 17–19, Agile India 2012
  topic TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM
• Feb 24–25, NFJS Madison, Madison, WI
  topic TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM
• Feb 28, Manchester Java User Group, Manchester, England
  topic TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM
• Feb 28, Softdevon III, Crakow, Poland
  “Pomodoro Technique—can you focus for 25 minutes?”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Mar 2–4, NFJS Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
  topic TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM
• March 6-9, Pragmatic Studio, Denver, CO
  iPhone/iPad Programming
  Daniel H Steinberg, Dim Sum Thinking
• Mar 8, Scandinavian Agile Conference, Helsinki, Finland
  topic TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM
• Mar 9–11, NFJS Boston, Boston, MA
  topic TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM
• Mar 12-14, 2012, Belgium Testing Days, Brussels, Belgium
  Tutorial: “Influence and Authority: Using Your Personal Power to Get Things Done,” Keynote: “QA or Test? Does it Matter? You Bet it Does!”
  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
• March 16-17, CocoaConf, Chicago, IL
  Storyboarding, Testing, and a Keynote
  Daniel H Steinberg, Dim Sum Thinking
• Mar 19–20, Software Passion Summit 2012, Gothenburg, Sweden
  “Advanced Regex”
  Staffan Nöteberg, author of Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
• Mar 19–21, 33degree, Krakow, Poland
  various topics related to JVM
  Venkat Subramaniam, the author of .NET Gotchas, the coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning Practices of an Agile Developer, the author of Programming Groovy, Programming Scala and Programming Concurrency on the JVM

O’Reilly Events

Upcoming events from our friends at O’Reilly.

• Jan 25, Strata Online Conference
  Strata Online Conference: “In this online conference, we’ll look at hot topics, brewing controversies, and cutting-edge technologies that promise to change how we live, work, play, learn, and love. Hear from some of Strata’s marquee speakers about what’s consuming them in the Big Data world in this web-based event.”
• Feb 13–15, TOC, New York, NY
  O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2012: “O’Reilly’s TOC Conference is where the publishing and tech industries converge, as practitioners and executives from both camps share what they’ve learned from their successes and failures, explore ideas, and join together to navigate publishing’s ongoing transformation.”
• Feb 28–Mar 1, Strata Conference, Santa Clara, CA
  O’Reilly Strata Conference: “Strata brings together practitioners, researchers, IT leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss big data, Hadoop, analytics, visualization, and data markets.”
• Mar 18, TOC Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  Tools of Change Bologna: “TOC and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair will team up once again, this time producing an unparalleled event featuring sessions, demos, workshops, and keynotes covering the art, craft, and business of storytelling in the digital age.”

USENIX Events

What’s coming from our USENIX friends.

• Feb 5–8, NDSS 2012, San Diego, CA
  19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium: “The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security.”
• Feb 14–17, FAST ’12, San Jose, CA
  10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies: “FAST ’12 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.”