June: Next week is SPIN week.  Join us after the June 16 public holiday.  Same time, same place.  Last month we had 40 people attend and we just about ran out of chairs.  Lots of new faces.  Please come along.  The talks are normally good and the conversations are great.

July: Really need to get my act together and get to the next SA Developer‘s talk.  Hilton Giesenow tells me it’s a great local event.  And On July 27, Lia turns 5!  Simply amazing!

August: Hmmm, seems quiet?  I think I’m going to submit a tutorial proposal for the ICSE conference happening in Cape Town in May 2010.

September: Looking forward to the Scrum User Group‘s conference in early September.  I may be giving a talk on the techie track.  I think it’s going to be a great event.  Carlo and Peter tell me so.  But on September 3, Fiona turns … older

October: My tutorial on using DDD and AOP to create clean, rich domain models has been accepted by OOPSLA.  So, October is OOPSLA time for me.

November: I will miss Oredev.  The competition to get in was so much tougher.  That just means it’s going to be better than last year.  If you’re a S.African developer, you should make a plan to get there.  It’s a great event that is very high on value for money.  But my November highlight is Khaleel turning 9 on the 22nd!  Boy, how did that happen so fast?

December: Crazy season again.  I really hope it’s a quiet, relaxing one this year.

• Solving Domain Problems with Aspects has a couple of slides with repeated transitions (courtesy of the export ).  This one has the flying code, as Claudio Perrone calls it!  And it is the presentation that lead to the chat with Ayende Rahien.  He has done something similar in C# here. - 29.1MB @ http://aslamkhan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/SolvingDomainProblemsWithAspects.mov

• Managing Diversity in Agile Teams was inspired by Claudio’s presentation style.  Highly visual with minimal text.  It’s about story telling, movie script style and not about bullet point presentations.  Thanks, Claudio! - 16.6MB @ http://aslamkhan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ManagingDiversityInAgileTeams.mov

• Bootstrapping your SOA Project has the slides for the workshop that I ran.  It’s a mixture of traditional and visual.  The traditional is used purely for reference / take-home material. - 13.5MB @ http://aslamkhan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/BootstrappingYourSOAProject.mov