So, I’ve just moved back to Europe after three fantastic years in Australia. One thing I’ll miss for sure is living just a few minutes away from the beach, but on the upside I’m now in easy travelling distance to a lot of great conferences. The following is a list of conferences and gatherings that I’ll be at, and in some case will also speak at. Hope to see you at one!

• JAX London 2010
• JAOO 2010 (in Århus, Denmark)
• Devops Days 2010 Europe (in Hamburg)
• Railscamp Hamburg
• Lean & Kanban eXchange (in London)
• OOP 2011 (in Munich)

By the way, you’ve probably noticed that I updated the theme of this site to reflect my new hometown, Hamburg; the picture shows part of the town hall.

The JAOO conference is coming to Australia again, and I think it will be the best technical conference in Australia this year. (I admit that I’m somewhat biased as a member of the programme committee.) In the lead up to the conference we have organised what we call JAOO Nights in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. These are free events, starting at 5pm with two speakers presenting on topics that give a flavour of what the JAOO conference itself will be like.

Check out the JAOO Australia site for information on the sessions, and sign up for your city if your interested!

I’ve just spent an inspiring day at CITCON 2007, an open space conference about continuous integration and testing. Matching the occasion I have released the last (hopefully) beta version of CCMenu, my Mac equivalent of CCTray.

This is a good year for London. First, we saw JAOO come to London, in cooperation with InfoQ, and now we also get a our version of the No Fluff Just Stuff exchange, in cooperation with Skills Matter. I have heard a lot of great things about it and so I am really pleased that I can finally attend. And, before I forget, I will also give my advanced TDD talk. See you there.

The JAOO conference is one of my absolute favourites and this year I have the honour of hosting a track on enterprise application frameworks. As you might know I’m interested in a variety of development platforms and so I’m excited to have talks on Java and .NET frameworks as well as Ruby on Rails in this track. It is also a rare opportunity for me to be able to talk in depth about some of the work I’ve done: Mat Wall from the Guardian and I will present a case study on the development of the new Guardian.co.uk website.