Who’s where, and what for.
“JRuby, not just for hard-headed pragmatists anymore”
Celebrating, we assume
“Agile In a Nutshell” and “The Surprising Science behind Agile Leadership”
“Budgeting Black Hole: Predicting the Unpredictable ”
Tim will be talking about whether pairing will ruin your company and also giving the fundamental agile apologetic.
Facilitating Open Jam
“The Only Agile Tools You'll Ever Need”
Keynote: “Your Code: The Director’s Cut” plus
sessions “Mac OS X for iOS Developers” and “The Key to Blocks”
“Introduction to AV Foundation” and “Advanced AV Foundation”
“Understanding View Controllers ” and “Drawing with Core Graphics on iOS ”
Emcee
Aug 20,
Madison Ruby Conference, Madison, WI (Brian says: “And seriously, if you’re not going to this conference, you’re going to miss out on a lot of fun. I’ll buy a beer for any other Prags author/editor/publisher who says hello. Come on! Come to Wisconsin before it gets cold again!”) “Building A Gem From Scratch”
iPhone Studio
Aug 28–Sept 2, Problem Solving Leadership, Albuquerque, NM (Email her for the registration form)
“Problem Solving Leadership”
“Regex in Scala”
“Pomodoro Technique—Can you focus for 25 minutes?”
“Regex—The Future Programming”
“Unleashing your Inner Hacker”
Opening Keynote
“Hello Groovy!,” “Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM”
David says, “Knowing me, I’ll be able to report on what I talked about after the fact and not much sooner. :)”
Sept 12–13, Agile Program Management, Berlin, Germany
“Agile Program Management”
“Surfing the Agile Wave”
Sept 15–16, Agile Program Management, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Agile Program Management”
Keynote
“Building Analytics with Clojure”
“Tightening Your Feedback Loop”
“Clojure Part 2: Building Analytics with Clojure”
“Airplane-Mode HTML5: Is your website mobile-ready?”
“Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go”
“Functional Thinking”
“Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go”
“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
He’ll be representing Clojure in the script bowl.
“The New Startup Stack”
“SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies” and “MySQL 5.5 InnoDB Tuning”
Bill Karwin, author of
SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming
iOS Studio
“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”
World Maker Faire
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Aug 9
Alfred Aho, co-creator of AWK language, is 70.
Aug 11
Steve Wozniak is 61.
Aug 20
Game developer John Carmack is 41.
Aug 21
Linus Torvalds announces Linux project, 1991.
Aug 29
Boy genius Stephen Wolfram is 52.
Sept 1
This month the GNU Project turns 28.
Sept 2
First message sent over Internet, 1969.
Sept 2
sendmail creator Eric Allman is 56.
Sept 4
LISP creator and AI pioneer John McCarthy is 84.
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.