From the 27th to the 29th of September, DevCon London is taking place. DevCon is organized by Software and Support, the great team behind conferences such as BASTA, JAX, PHPCon and many more. The conference is in parallel with JAX London so there’s for sure going to be a mix of crowds between .NET and Java developers. There’s a great line-up of speakers (a few more not on the list including Greg Young and Neil Robbins) and Richard and Carl will be there with their .NET Rocks Panel. If you’ve not signed up yet, I recommend you do. It’s going to be a great event.

The night of the 29th, JetBrains is holding an Open Doors community event, where we’ll show some of the things we are working on, discuss some future plans and also have two great friends of JetBrains, Sebastian Lambla and Howard van Rooijen talk to us about dealing with packages in .NET and promoting standards across teams. All this will be topped off with Beer and Snacks.

This is a free event, and you do not need to register for the main conference to attend this. However, places are limited so I do recommend you sign up as soon as possible if you want to come.

Also, don’t forget that you can still have a chance to win a free entrance to DevCon or JAX London (2 day pass valued at over 540 Pounds Sterling) by submitting a Screencast to JetBrainsTV

Hope to see you there!

JetBrains will be exhibiting at the Norwegian Developer Conference next week. Myself, Oleg “Don’t EVER separate me from my iPad” Stepanov, Eugene “If there’s anything you want to know about ReSharper, he’s your man” Pasynkov and Eugene Petrenko from TeamCity will be there.

We’ll be doing demos, prize raffles, and of course giving out the (now famous) “I see dead code” T-Shirts.

I’ll also be giving 3 talks, one on CouchDB, another on Code Contracts and a third on Mocking. Conference organizers have been kind enough to spread them out for me over the 3 days so that I cannot get smashed until the last night. Oh well! You know what they say: If you’re going to Norway and want it to be legal, it’s got to happen at NDC.

So if you’re going to NDC and want to discuss any issues, tell us about your next feature request that will revolutionize the world, get a T-Shirt or even (I know…sounds crazy) say hello, stop by our booth.

See you there!

Next week some of the JetBrains crew will be in Las Vegas, Nevada and from what I hear, apparently its going to be work-related (still, it’s Vegas. There’s always time to play).

We’re going to be at DevConnections, where we’ll be launching ReSharper 5, to coincide with the Visual Studio 2010 launch so if you are in the vicinity, come by our booth. There’s going to be a bunch of us there and you can come and meet some of the developers behind ReSharper.

Apart from seeing the latest and greatest ReSharper 5 features, you can find out about our latest product, dotCover, as well as all some of the other tools we have (dotTrace, TeamCity, YouTrack or even RubyMine). You might even win some prizes!

I’ll also be giving a vendor session on Test Driven Development of ASP.NET MVC Applications at 5:30 pm on April 13th, where you’ll see some MSpec and of course the new features for ASP.NET MVC we have in ReSharper.

After Vegas, I’ll be heading out to Warsaw for the Communities to Communities Conference, where I’ll have a talk on (yep, you guessed it) Architecting ASP.NET MVC Applications and then from there, on to a mini-tour of User Groups in Poland with The Undutchable and others. I was meant to go to Wroclaw, Krakowice and Krakow, but unfortunately I can only do Wroclaw. So the mini-tour has become a very mini tour for me. And what’s worse, I’ll miss some home-made Barszcz. Sorry Krzysztof :(.

Week after that I’ll be at the VBUG4Though conference in Birmingham.

And remember, if you’re in Vegas and you run into me after  9 pm, I might not sound too coherent.

Actually make that 9 am.

Start of the “conference season” again and I’ll be doing a tour of a few countries and places. Hope to meet up with some of you at some place and time. This time I’ll try and have all sessions ready so I can spend my time more productively at the bar/restaurant

- 21st to 25th September at BASTA! in Germany. Talks on ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, TDD, Design Principles.

- 27th to 30th September at Entwickler Konferenz in Germany. Talks on ASP.NET MVC, TDD.

- 12th to 13th October at DevReach in Bulgaria. Talks on ASP.NET MVC, Design Principles.

- 16th to 17th October at TTT/CodeCamp in Tarragona. Talks on MEF and Design Principles.

- 18th to 21st October at SDC in The Netherlands. Talks on ASP.NET MVC.

- 29th October at Micrsoft in Madrid. Workshop on Design Principles (Link available soon)

I’ve also pre-recorded 3 sessions for an online virtual conference on ASP.NET MVC, jQuery and Mocks, all in Delphi Prism and it’s happening right now on CodeRage

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As promised, here are the materials from my talks:

Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

Introduction to jQuery

(Disclaimer: some demos aren't "cleaned up" but they should all work)

I'm off to Rome next week for BASTA! Italia, and quite excited since it's my first time in Italy. Mind you, I always say that but my trips normally involve

Airport -> Hotel -> Conference Venue -> Hotel -> Airport

And that's if the Conference is not held at the same Hotel. In this case, it is :).

Having said that, it will be good to catch up again with friends and eat my all-time favorite food (Pasta) in it's country of origin.

I'll be giving two talks which I thoroughly enjoy

• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC
• Introduction to jQuery

See you there!

Just a few days left for the Early Bird fee for the iMeta Architecture Days. It's going to be a two day event in Madrid on Design Principles, Testing, and on the second day Domain Driven Design and SOA with Udi Dahan!

Since it's a training event, it's going to be a small group so there's more room for interaction.  And all this is for just a mere 375 Euros. Price includes lunch and munchies on both days.

To sign up and more info, click here

I'll be doing several talks next week at two different events.  At BASTA 2009 Spring I have the following sessions:

• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC
• Advanced ASP.NET MVC
• Design Principles and Practices
• Introduction to jQuery

All on topics I enjoy tremendously. Then on Friday I'm heading off to Madrid to do a talk on Automation of Testing at the SOLO PRUEBAS 2009 Conference

Hope to see some of you there.

While I was at TechEd in Barcelona last week, I had a chance to sit down with Mark Dunn from .NET Rocks and talk a little bit about ASP.NET MVC and jQuery. They've recorded the interview. You can watch it here

I'll be doing a talk in Belgium next month at the Visual Studio User Group, where I'll be covering topics such as Separation of Concerns, Single Responsibility, Interface Segregation, Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control, along with examples of IoC containers. There's limited space (90) and already 55 signed up, so if you're in or around the neighbourhood, got nothing better to do than here my brag, come along. I think they are organizing a geek dinner afterwards so it should be fun. Although the talk will be in C#, the important things to grasp are the concepts, not the language, be it Visual Basic, Delphi or whatever else (obviously it needs to be a OO language).