Want to meet one of our authors face-to-face? Here’s where they’ll be in the coming months.

Here’s what our authors will be up to in the coming months.

• 2013-01-08, Triangle.rb
  The Rails View: The Junk Drawer Grows Up
  John M Athayde (author of The Rails View)
• 2013-01-08, Boulder JUG
  TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam (author of Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy, Programming Scala, Programming Concurrency on the JVM, and Programming Groovy (2nd edition))
• 2013-01-09, Denver JUG
  TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam
• 2013-01-09, CodeMash, Sandusky, OH
  Building Productive iOS 6 Apps (half-day tutorial)
  Chris Adamson (author of iOS SDK Development)
• 2013-01-10, CodeMash, Sandusky, OH
  Objective-C Is Not Java
  Chris Adamson
• 2013-01-10, CodeMash 2013
  RubyMotion - Ruby and Cocoa Touch Sitting In A Tree…
  Jonathan Penn
• 2013-01-15, Atlanta JUG
  TBD
  Venkat Subramaniam
• 2013-01-18, AIPMM Webinar
  Effective Project Portfolio Management
  Johanna Rothman (author of Behind Closed Doors, Manage It!, and Manage Your Project Portfolio)
• 2013-01-24, T4G Limited Thinkers Big Data Congress 2013 Saint John, New Brunswick, CA
  The Leading Thinker/Doer on our panel at the Big Data Conference event.
  Jesse Anderson (author of The Cloud and Amazon Web Services)
• 2013-02-02, FOSDEM 2013
  Live pair programming with Julien Biezemans, lead developer of Cucumber-JS
  Matt Wynne (author of The Cucumber Book and Cucumber Recipes)
• 2013-02-04, BDD Kickstart, Brussels
  Get a flying start with BDD, the collaborative process that's changing the face of software development. (with Julien Biezemans)
  Matt Wynne
• 2013-02-04, JFokus - Sweden
  Workshops and talks on JVM related languages.
  Venkat Subramaniam
• 2013-02-18, DevNexus - Atlanta
  Talks on JVM related languages.
  Venkat Subramaniam
• 2013-02-20, RubyConf Australia
  Full day Advanced Ruby tutorial
  Dave Thomas (author of Programming Ruby (2nd edition), Programming Ruby 1.9 (3rd edition), Agile Web Development with Rails (3rd edition), The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming, and Agile Web Development with Rails (4th edition))
• 2013-02-21, RubyConf Australia
  Keynote
  Dave Thomas
• 2013-02-26, Agile India - Bangalore
  Workshop and talks on Agile technical practices.
  Venkat Subramaniam
• 2013-03-01, The Joy of Coding - Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  Keynote at a conference focused on developer joy
  Chad Fowler (author of The Passionate Programmer (2nd edition) and Rails Recipes)
• 2013-03-04, SpeakerConf - Aruba
  An opportunity to handout with fellow speakers.
  Venkat Subramaniam
• 2013-03-07, AgileIndy Conference
  Tutorial: Agile Project Management: Do You Have What it Takes?
  Johanna Rothman
• 2013-03-08, AgileIndy Conference
  Keynote: Agile Management
  Johanna Rothman
• 2013-03-13, 33degree - Warsaw, Poland
  Various JVM languages related topics.
  Venkat Subramaniam
• 2013-03-28, #inspect, Brussels Belgium
  Wrapping RubyMotion - Discussing techniques for making Objective-C APIs more pleasant in Ruby
  Clay Allsopp (author of RubyMotion)
• 2013-04-21, Problem Solving Leadership Workshop, Albuquerque, NM
  5.5 days of leadership training for people who want to learn to be problem solving leaders.
  Johanna Rothman
• 2013-04-22, Railsberry - Krakow, Poland
  A talk on something other than Rails. This is a Rails conference about everything except for Rails.
  Chad Fowler
• 2013-04-22, Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013
  "How to Design Indexes, Really" and "Extensible Data Modeling with MySQL"
  Bill Karwin (author of SQL Antipatterns)
• 2013-05-20, Let's Test Conference, Sweden
  Tutorial: Hiring for Your Team: Culture Trumps Skills
  Johanna Rothman
• 2013-05-21, Let's Test Conference, Sweden
  Keynote: Becoming a Kick-Ass Test Manager
  Johanna Rothman
• 2013-09-11, BDD Kickstart, Barcelona
  Get a flying start with BDD, the collaborative process that's changing the face of software development.
  Matt Wynne
• 2013-09-14, Barcelona Ruby Conference
  Hexagonal rails
  Matt Wynne

O’Reilly Events

Upcoming events from our friends at O’Reilly.

• 2013-01-22, online
  Strata Online Conference: Data Warfare: “Join us in this free online event as we explore the downside of data dependency, and the coming Data War.”
• 2013-02-12, TOC New York, New York, NY
  Tools of Change New York:“For six years, the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in New York has been the seminal event for professionals and companies engaged with the challenges and opportunities of new publishing technologies and business models.”
• 2013-02-26, Strata 2013, Santa Clara, CA
  O’Reilly Strata Conference: “Tap into the collective intelligence of more than 150 data experts at Strata 2013. Strata gives you the skills, tools, and technologies you need to make data work today.”
• 2013-03-24, TOC Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  Tools of Change Bologna: “Happening in conjunction with the Bologna Children's Book Fair, TOC Bologna is where the children's publishing and technology industries come together to discuss, learn, and share ideas around the art, craft, and business of storytelling in the digital age.”

USENIX Events

What’s coming from our USENIX friends.

• 2913-02-12, FAST ’13, San Jose, CA
  11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies: “FAST '13 brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.”

Emancipation

As we begin 2013, here’s an ebook you might want to look at.

2013 is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. If the movie Lincoln whetted your appetite for information about emancipation, the National Archives is putting on events related to the Proclamation all year, and they have released a free ebook, The Meaning and Making of Emancipation, that is worth a download.