Calendar

by Jackie Carter

Author sightings and other notable events.

Dec 1-3, Long Beach, CA
Pragmatic Studio, Ruby on Rails
Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler, author of The Passionate Programmer
Dec 1-4, Long Beach, CA
Pragmatic Studio, 4 day “how to” for iPhone SDK development
Bill Dudney, author of Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone and iPhone SDK Development, and Pragmatic Bookshelf editor Daniel Steinberg
Dec 2-3, Agile ’09, Copenhagen
“Pomodoro Technique”
Staffan Nöteberg
Dec 3, MySQL University: Practical Full-Text Search in MySQL
Online session using DimDim conferencing 16:00 UTC (8:00 AM PST)
Bill Karwin
Dec 5
ARPANET expanded to four nodes 40 years ago today, while the Grateful Dead played live at Fillmore West
Dec 3, Online session using DimDim conferencing
“MySQL University: Practical Full-Text Search in MySQL”
Dec 7-8, XPDay in London, UK
Workshop on “Trust and Project Culture” and she facilitates OpenSpace
Rachel Davies
Dec 10, CocoaHeads meeting, Ann Arbor, MI
“Introduction to Core Audio”
Chris Adamson, co-author of iPhone SDK Development
Dec 10, London Geek Nights, London
“Naked Objects 4.0”
Dan Haywood, author of Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects
Dec 10
Ada Lovelace’s birthday
Dec 16-19, Kochi, India
International Conference on High Performance Computing
Dec 25, Canada, USA
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” opens
Writer and Director, Terry Gilliam; starring Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law
Jan 10
Donald Knuth’s birthday
Jan 11-14, Obtiva, Chicago IL
I’ll be running Obtiva's Ruby on Rails TDD Boot Camp
Noel Rappin
Jan 13-15, CodeMash 2010, Sandusky, OH
Keynote
Andy Hunt
Jan 13-15, CodeMash 2010, Sandusky, OH
“Introduction to iPhone SDK Development;” “How Do You Do That on iPhone?;” “Oh Crap! I Forgot (or Never Learned) C!”
Chris Adamson, co-author of iPhone SDK Development
Jan 13-15, CodeMash 2010, Sandusky, OH
“A Taste of Cocoa” (An intro to Mac OS X development); “Come for the Phone Stay for the Mac”
Pragmatic Bookshelf editor and author Daniel H. Steinberg
Jan 13, Inman News ConnectTech NYC
Tips and Tricks for Working with the iPhone SDK
Mike Mangino
Jan 21, Grand Rapids Java Users Group
Driving Behaviour w/Cucumber on the JVM
Zach Dennis
Jan 28-29, Japan Symposium on Software Testing
Keynote and a tutorial
Johanna Rothman, author of Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management, and Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
Feb 9-11, Speakerconf 2010, Aruba
TBA
Brian Marick
Feb 11, Moscone Center, San Francisco
Macworld Expo
Steve Jobs?
Feb 12
Darwin Day: Charles Darwin is 201.
Charles Darwin
Feb 17-18, PyCon 2010 Atlanta, Georgia
Tutorial session: Test Driven Web Development
Travis Swicegood
Feb 22-24, JAX London conference
“Agile Coaching Secrets”
Rachel Davies, coauthor of Agile Coaching
Feb 24
Steve Jobs is 55.
Feb 29
Celebrate Herman Hollerith’s 150th birthday.