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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.

2013-02-02, Detroit Mobile City
Core Audio Introduction
Chris Adamson (author of iOS SDK Development)
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 Functional Programming and JVM related languages
Venkat Subramaniam (author of Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Groovy, Programming Scala, Programming Concurrency on the JVM, and Programming Groovy (2nd edition))
2013-02-08, NEScala 2013, Philadelphia PA
Building Scala Hygienically with Pants. Describing a new, bottom-up build system that allows developers to statically declare build dependencies.
Mark Chu-Carroll (author of Good Math)
2013-02-11, Trondheim XP og Agile Meetup
Kom og lær Ruby!
Paolo Perrotta (author of Metaprogramming Ruby)
2013-02-18, DevNexus - Atlanta
Talks on Java 8 and also CoffeeScript
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
2013-02-28, Big Ruby Conf -- Dallas, Texas
Build a Bigger Brain: How Healthy Living Makes You Smarter
Joe Kutner (author of Deploying with JRuby and The Healthy Programmer)
2013-03-01, Joy of Coding, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Java is from Mars, Ruby is from Venus
Paolo Perrotta
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 hang out with fellow speakers
Venkat Subramaniam
2013-03-07, CocoaConf Chicago
Mobile Movies with HTTP Live Streaming
Chris Adamson
2013-03-07, AgileIndy Conference
Tutorial: Agile Project Management: Do You Have What it Takes?
Johanna Rothman (author of Behind Closed Doors, Manage It!, and Manage Your Project Portfolio)
2013-03-07, CocoaConf Chicago
Game Dev Workshop
Jonathan Penn
2013-03-07, CocoaConf Chicago
iPad Productivity APIs (All-Day Tutorial)
Chris Adamson
2013-03-07, CocoaConf Chicago
Core Audio in iOS 6
Chris Adamson
2013-03-08, NFJS - Minneapolis, MN
Talks on HTML 5 and JVM languages
Venkat Subramaniam
2013-03-08, CocoaConf Chicago
Zen and the Art of iOS Gesture Recognizers
Jonathan Penn
2013-03-08, AgileIndy Conference
Keynote: Agile Management
Johanna Rothman
2013-03-09, CocoaConf Chicago
UI Automation - Automate ALL THE THINGS!
Jonathan Penn
2013-03-13, 33degree - Warsaw, Poland
Various JVM languages related topics
Venkat Subramaniam
2013-03-20, Pragmatic Studio, Reston, VA
Three days, two presenters, one objective—to get you up and running with Rails
Dave Thomas
2013-03-21, CocoaConf DC
iPad Productivity APIs (All-Day Tutorial)
Chris Adamson
2013-03-21, CocoaConf DC
Mobile Movies with HTTP Live Streaming
Chris Adamson
2013-03-21, CocoaConf DC
Core Audio in iOS 6
Chris Adamson
2013-03-25, #inspect 2013 - Brussels, Belgium
CoreData In Motion - An overview of how CoreData works, when to use it, and how to use it in RubyMotion
Jonathan Penn
2013-03-28, #inspect, Brussels Belgium
Wrapping RubyMotion - Discussing techniques for making Objective-C APIs more pleasant in Ruby
Clay Allsopp (author of RubyMotion)
2013-04-04, DenverJS - Denver, CO
JavaScript related topic
Venkat Subramaniam
2013-04-04, Ancient City Ruby, St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Clojure for the Unsuspecting
Paolo Perrotta
2013-04-05, NFJS, NYC
Talks on HTML 5 and JVM languages
Venkat Subramaniam
2013-04-12, ACCU, Bristol, UK
Workshop "Gumption Traps Reloaded" with Ivan Moore and talk "Is eXtreme Programming still alive and kicking?"
Rachel Davies (author of Agile Coaching)
2013-04-18, CocoaConf San Jose
Core Audio in iOS 6
Chris Adamson
2013-04-18, CocoaConf San Jose
Mobile Movies with HTTP Live Streaming
Chris Adamson
2013-04-18, CocoaConf San Jose
Core Audio Workshop (All-Day Tutorial)
Chris Adamson
2013-04-21, NFJS, Reston, VA
Talks on HTML 5 and JVM languages
Venkat Subramaniam
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)
2013-05-07, Great Indian Developer Summit, Bangalore
Workshops and talks on various topics
Venkat Subramaniam
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
2013-05-22, GR8Conf, Copenhagen
Talks on various topics related to Groovy and the JVM
Venkat Subramaniam
2013-05-28, Fluent 2013
Flow Control with Promises: Learn to control async tasks in JavaScript with Promise-based interfaces
Trevor Burnham (author of CoffeeScript and Async JavaScript)
2013-06-12, NDC Oslo
Talks on various topics
Venkat Subramaniam
2013-07-16, ÜberConf
Workshops and talks on various topics
Venkat Subramaniam
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
2013-09-14, Baruco
TBD
David Chelimsky (author of The RSpec Book)

O’Reilly Events

Upcoming events from our friends at O’Reilly.

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.

2013-02-12, 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.”
2013-02-24, NDSS , San Diego, CA
Network & Distributed System Security Symposium: “The purpose of NDSS is to bring the global Internet community together to learn about and discuss cutting-edge advances in the science and application of network and distributed systems security.”
2013-03-15, Cascadia IT, Seattle, WA
Cascadia IT Conference 2013: “A gathering of professionals from the diverse IT (computer and network administration) community in the U.S. Pacific Northwest / British Columbia to learn, share ideas, and network.”
2013-04-02, TaPP ’13, Lombard, IL
5th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance: “The workshop may cover any topic related to theoretical or practical aspects of provenance, including but not limited to: provenance in databases, workflows, programming languages, security, software engineering, or systems; provenance on the Web; real-world applications of or requirements for provenance.”
2013-04-03, NSDI ’13, Lombard, IL
10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation: “NSDI focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of large-scale networked and distributed systems.”
2013-04-15, EUROSYS, Prague, Czech Republic
Eurosys 2013: “EuroSys has become a premier forum for discussing various issues of systems software research and development, including implications related to hardware and applications.”