Summer is coming to a close, and there's a bunch of conferences coming up in the next few months..

Before the summer does end, I'll be going to Agile 2009 in Chicago. I'm not speaking at the conference, but I will be hanging around the corridors and helping host some ThoughtWorks activities. We've long had an office in Chicago and we have a lot of speakers at the conference.

In October I'll be in Europe and as usual at this time of year I'll be at JAOO. Again Rebecca Parsons and Neal Ford will be joining me for our all-day DSL tutorial. We've worked a bit on rejigging it as my book gets more stable and Rebecca and I learn from Neal's presentation skills. I'll also be giving a talk on the role of patterns in software development skills.

Rebecca and Neal will be joining me for our DSL tutorial at JAOO

I have to fly out of Aarhus pretty quickly because the next week I'll be doing a keynote for Microsoft's Patterns and Practices Summit. I haven't exactly decided what my talk will cover yet, and indeed it may be ExtemporarySpeaking.

In November I return to the Left Coast to visit Vancouver, one of my favorite cities, to speak at Agile Vancouver.

My final booking so far is to return to QCon San Francisco, where I'll be giving my talk on Three Years of Ruby, that I gave at QCons in London, Beijing, and Tokyo earlier this year.