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<h1>Partial &amp; Ancient Conference History</h1>
<p>I've been speaking at developer's conferences since 1997; here's a
partial list, more to marvel at the variety of technologies as the
world changes, and who quickly technologies come and go.</p>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2010/11/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2010/11/home">Rocky
    Mountain Software Symposium</a><br>
    Denver, CO <br>
    November 19-21, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st
    Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire
    Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]

    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align:
  center;"><a href="http://www.devoxx.com/display/Devoxx2K10/Home "><img src="images/devoxx-logo.png" width="150" height="120"
  border="0" alt="devoxx logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.devoxx.com/display/Devoxx2K10/Home">Devoxx</a><br>
    Antwerp, Belgium <br>
    November 15-19,  2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>The Productive Programmer:
  Mechanics </b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Productive_Programmer-Mechanics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>The Productive Programmer:
      Practice (<i>10 Ways to Improve Your
      Code</i>) </b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/10_Ways_to_Improve_Your_Code(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
  </td></tr>

            
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://oredev.org/2010"><img src="images/oredev-logo.png" width="180" height="70"
  border="0" alt="oredev logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://oredev.org/2010">Oredev</a><br>
    Malmo, Sweden <br>
    November 8-12,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Testing the Entire
    Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
  </td></tr>

            
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/11/home">Northern
Virginia Software Symposium</a><br>
    Reston, VA <br>
    November 5-7, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering
    Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>] [<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/canonical/Neal_Ford-Metrics_Driven_Agile_Development-samples.zip">samples</a>] 
<li><b>Testing the Entire
    Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
</td></tr>
            
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.software-architect.co.uk/ "><img src="images/2010-software-architect.png" width="220" height="120" border="0" alt="software architect logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.software-architect.co.uk/">Software Architect 2010</a><br>
    London, England <br>
    October 19-22,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Testing the Entire
    Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering
    Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Hands-on Agile
    Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Hands-on_Agile_Development(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]&nbsp;[<i><a href="downloads/The_Productive_Programer-Test_Driven_Design_Chapter.pdf">TDD
      Solution</a></i>]
  <li><b>Distributed Agile Simulation Workshop</b>&nbsp;[<i><a
  href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Distributed_Agile_Workshop(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  [<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/canonical/Neal_Ford-Metrics_Driven_Agile_Development-samples.zip">samples</>] 
    </ul>
  </td></tr>
            
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/minneapolis/2010/10/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/minneapolis/2010/10/home">Twin
Cities Software Symposium</a><br>
    Minneapolis, MN <br>
    October 15-16, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire
    Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
</td></tr>
            
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jaoo.dk/ "><img src="images/jaoo_logo_top.gif" width="80" height="30" border="0" alt="jaoo logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://jaoo.dk/">JAOO</a><br>
    Aarhus, Denmark <br>
    October 3-8,  2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Rails in the
  Large</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Rails_in_the_Large(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li>DSL Tutorial (with Martin Fowler)&nbsp;[<i>no slides</i>]
    </ul>
  </td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://entwickler-konferenz.de/ "><img src="images/ekon14_en.jpg" width="150" height="150" border="0" alt="ekon 14 logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://entwickler-konferenz.de/">EKON 14</a><br>
    Darmstadt, Germany <br>
    September 27-30,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>The Productive Programmer: EKON
    Edition</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/The_Productive_Programmer-EKON_Edition(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>My Boss Said "Agile" - Now What?</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Boss_Said_Agile(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/my_boss_said_agile_sample_artifacts.zip">samples</a></i>]
    </ul>
  </td></tr>

            
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jaxlondon.com/ "><img src="images/devconlondon10_speaker.jpg" width="150" height="150" border="0" alt="jax london logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://jaxlondon.com/">JAX 2010 London (Autumn Edition)</a><br>
    London, England <br>
    September 27-29,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Hands-on Agile
    Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Hands-on_Agile_Development(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]&nbsp;[<i><a href="downloads/The_Productive_Programer-Test_Driven_Design_Chapter.pdf">TDD
      Solution</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Why Clo<i>j</i>ure?</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Why_Clojure(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
  </td></tr>



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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2010/09/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2010/09/home">Greater Atlanta Software Symposium</a><br>
    Atlanta, GA <br>
    September 24-26, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire
    Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/javaonedevelop/index.html "><img src="images/javaone.jpg" width="120" height="60" border="0" alt="JavaOne Logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/javaonedevelop/index.html">JavaOne</a><br>
    San Francisco, CA <br>
    September 20-23,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Unit Testing that Sucks Less: Small Things that Make a Big
    Difference</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Unit_Testing_That_Sucks_Less(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby </b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Comparing_Groovy_and_JRuby(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/seattle/2010/09/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/seattle/2010/09/home">Pacific Northwest Software Symposium</a><br>
    Seattle, WA <br>
    September 17-19, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire
    Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.agileaustralia.com/ "><img src="images/2010-agile-oz.png" width="300" height="110" border="0" alt="Agile Australia logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.agileaustralia.com/">Agile Australia '10</a><br>
    Melbourne, NSW Australia <br>
    September 15-16,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
  </td></tr>


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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jz10.java.no/ "><img src="images/2010-javazone.png" width="180" height="150" border="0" alt="Javazone logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://jz10.java.no/">JavaZone</a><br>
    Oslo, Norway <br>
    September 8-9,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
  </td></tr>


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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/raleigh/2010/08/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/raleigh/2010/08/home">Research Triangle Software Symposium</a><br>
    Raleigh, NC <br>
    August 27-29, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/ "><img src="images/2010-agile-conf.png" width="320" height="110" border="0" alt="AgileConf Logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/">Agile2010</a><br>
    Orlando, FL <br>
    August 9-13,  2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Distributed Agile Simulation Workshop</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Distributed_Agile_Workshop(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>]
    </ul>
  </td></tr>
            
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/des_moines/2010/07/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/des_moines/2010/07/home">Central Iowa Software Symposium</a><br>
    Des Moines, IA <br>
    July 30-August 1, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
 <li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
 <li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010 "><img src="http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/45/oscon2010_spkr_125x125.jpg" width="125" height="125"  border="0"  alt="OSCON 2010" title="OSCON 2010"  />
</a>
</a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010">O'Reilly OSCON Open Source Conference</a><br>
    Portland, OR <br>
    July 19-23,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>JRuby Tutorial</b></i>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/JRuby_Tutorial(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Productive Programmer Tutorial</b></i>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Productive_Programmer_Tutorial(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
  </td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/austin/2010/07/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/austin/2010/07/home">Lone Star Software Symposium</a><br>
    Austin, TX <br>
    July 16-17, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/salt_lake_city/2010/07/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/salt_lake_city/2010/07/home">Salt Lake Software Symposium</a><br>
    Salt Lake City, UT <br>
    July 9-10, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.universite-du-si.com/en/conferences/6-paris-usi-2010 "><img src="images/USI-logo.png" width="180" height="150" border="0" alt="USI logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.universite-du-si.com/en/conferences/6-paris-usi-2010">Universite du SI</a><br>
    Paris, France <br>
    July 1-2,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote: </i>Why, not How</b>(with Martin Fowler)&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Why_not_How(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/columbus/2010/06/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/columbus/2010/06/home">Central Ohio Software Symposium</a><br>
    Columbus, OH <br>
    June 25-27, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://uberconf.com/conference/denver/2010/06/home "><img  alt="uberconf image " src="images/UberConf_125x125_speaking.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://uberconf.com/conference/denver/2010/06/home">Über Conf 2010</a><br>
 Denver, CO <br>
  June 14-17, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>JRuby Workshop</b>(with Ola Bini)&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/JRuby_Workshop(Intro)-Ola_Bini_and_Neal_Ford.pdf">intro slides</a></i>] [<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/JRuby_Workshop(Meta-Programming)-Ola_Bini_and_Neal_Ford.pdf">meta-programming slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.oreilly.com/rails2010 "><img src="images/railsconf-generic.png" width="230" height="150" border="0" alt="RailsConf logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/rails2010">RailsConf 2010</a><br>
    Baltimore, MD <br>
    June 7-10,  2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b><i>Keynote<i>: Creativity &amp; Constraint</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Creativity_and_Constraint(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://bit.ly/nf-rc-keynote">video!</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/dallas/2010/06/home "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/dallas/2010/06/home">Lone Star Software Symposium</a><br>
    Dallas, TX <br>
    June 4-6, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jazoon.com/ "><img src="images/jazoon-logo.png" width="275" height="100" border="0" alt="Jazoon logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://jazoon.com/">Jazoon</a><br>
    Zurich, Switzerland <br>
    June 1-3, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Construction Techniques for Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.austinjug.org/ "><img src="http://www.austinjug.org/banner/AustinJUG_banner_178x90.jpg" width="178"  height="90" border="0" alt="Austin JUG logo"></a></td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://www.austinjug.org/">Austin Java Users Group</a><br>
    Austin, TX <br>
    May 25th,  2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/st_louis/2010/04/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/st_louis/2010/04/home">Gateway Software Symposium</a><br>
 St. Louis, MO<br>
  May 21-23, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Hands-on Agile Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Hands-on_Agile_Development(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]&nbsp;[<i><a href="downloads/The_Productive_Programer-Test_Driven_Design_Chapter.pdf">TDD Solution</a></i>]
<li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
 <li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://reddirtrubyconf.com/ "><img src="http://reddirtrubyconf.com/images/rdrc_logo_web_sm.png" width="180" height="150" border="0"></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://reddirtrubyconf.com/">Red Dirt RubyConf</a><br>
 Oklahoma City, OK <br>
  May 6-7, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Rails in the Large</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Rails_in_the_Large(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/04/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2010/04/home">Northern Virginia Software Symposium</a><br>
 Reston, VA <br>
  April 30-May 2, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/memphis/2010/04/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/memphis/2010/04/home">Mid-South Software Symposium</a><br>
 Memphis, TN <br>
  April 23-25, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Test Driven <i>Design</i></b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Test_Driven_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/tampa/2010/04/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/tampa/2010/04/home">Greater Florida Software Symposium</a><br>
 Tampa, FL<br>
  April 16-18, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Test Driven <i>Design</i></b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Test_Driven_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td>
  <a href="http://www.rubynation.org">RubyNation</a><br>
 Reston, VA <br>
  April 9-10, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Rails in the Large</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Rails_in_the_Large(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/bloomington/2010/04/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/bloomington/2010/04/home">Greater Illinois Software Symposium</a><br>
 Bloomington, IL <br>
  April 9-10, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote</i>: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
  <li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Vizualizations for Code Metics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Vizualizations_for_Code_Metrics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Test Driven <i>Design</i></b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Test_Driven_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]   
    
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://devnation.us/ "><img  alt="DevNation Logo " src="images/devnation-harvested-logo.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://devnation.us/">DevNation</a><br>
 Atlanta, GA <br>
  April 3, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Why the Language Renaissance Matters to the Enterprise</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Why_the_Language_Renaissance_Matters_to_the_Enterprise(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
   
    </ul>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.devweek.com/ "><img  alt="DevWeek Logo " src="images/2010-devweek.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.devweek.com/">DevWeek</a><br>
 London, England <br>
  March 15-19, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Implementing Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>My Boss Said "Agile" - Now What?</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Boss_Said_Agile(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/my_boss_said_agile_sample_artifacts.zip">samples</a></i>]
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>TDD by Example</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/TDD_by_Example(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Productive Programmer Workshop</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_Tutorial-DevWeek.pdf">slides</a></i>]
   </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/minneapolis/2010/03/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NOFL_125x125-spkr_100217.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/minneapolis/2010/03/home">Twin Cities Software Symposium</a><br>
 Minneaplis, MN <br>
  March 12-14, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote: </i>Why, not How</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Why_not_How(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]

<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
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  <td style="text-align: center;">Denver JUG</td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://denverjug.wordpress.com/">Denver  Java Users Group</a><br>
 March 10, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
</ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;">Boulder JUG</td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.boulderjug.org/">Boulder Java Users Group</a><br>
 March 10, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Implementing Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
</ul>
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  <td>
  <a href="http://thoughtworker.com/">ThoughtWorks Webcast</a><br>
 March 10, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b>10 Ways to Improve Your Code</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/10_Ways_to_Improve_Your_Code(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
</ul>
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  <td>
  <a href="http://www.devnexus.com/">Devnexus</a><br>
 Atlanta, GA <br>
  March 8-9, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Keynote: Smithing in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/boston/2010/03/home">New England Software Symposium</a><br>
 Boston, MA <br>
  March 5-7, 2010<br>
<ul>
<li><b><i>Keynote: </i>Why, not How</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Why_not_How(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Emergent Design</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Emergent_Design(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Implementing Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Implementing_Evolutionary_Enterprise_Architecture(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Testing the Entire Stack</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Testing_the_Entire_Stack(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]

<li><b>Agile Engineering Practices</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/2010/Agile_Engineering_Practices(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.go-esdc.com/ "><img  alt="ESDC conference logo " src="images/ESDC_spkrbdg_FORD.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.go-esdc.com/">Enterprise Software Development Conference</a><br>
 San Mateo, CA <br>
  March 1-3, 2010<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanices </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics.zip">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Construction Techniques for Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://speakerconf.com/ "><img  alt="Speakerconf image " src="images/speakerconf.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://speakerconf.com/">speakerconf</a><br>
 Oranjestad, Aruba <br>
  February 9-11, 2010<br>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://iasadenvergala.eventbrite.com/"><img  alt="IASA Denver " src="images/iasa-denver.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://iasadenvergala.eventbrite.com/">IASA Annual Banquet Keynote</a><br>
 Denver, CO <br>
  December 7, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Why the Langauge Renaissance Matters to the Enterprise</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="downloads/conferences/Why_the_Language_Renaissance_Matters_to_the_Enterprise(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://therichwebexperience.com/conference/orlando/2009/12/home "><img  alt="rich web experience logl " src="images/NOFL_RWE_125x125_spkr.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://therichwebexperience.com/conference/orlando/2009/12/home">The Rich Web Experience</a><br>
 Orlando, FL <br>
  December 1-4, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Punchlist: Making Your Web Applications Suck Less</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Introduction to Selenium</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://www.therichwebexperience.com/s/slides/topic/2122/Introduction_to_Selenium_Neal_Ford_.pdf">Slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Advanced Selenium &nbsp;[<i><a href="http://www.therichwebexperience.com/s/slides/topic/2123/Advanced_Selenium_Neal_Ford_.pdf">Slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2009/11/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2009/11/home">Rocky Mountain Software Symposium</a><br>
 Denver, CO<br>
  November 20-22, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Communication Skills for Geeks</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://qconsf.com/ "><img  alt="qcon logo " src="images/qcon_logo.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://qconsf.com/">QCon San Francisco</a><br>
 San Francisco, CA <br>
  November 16-20, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Introduction to MPS</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/Introduction_to_MPS(Neal_Ford_and_Nate_Schutta).pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://connect.thoughtworks.com/g/?CVSLQ2P715:SS6RLKXL0F=ssID:542570819,email:nford@thoughtworks.com "><img  alt="ThoughtWorks logo " src="images/Thoughtworks_Logo.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://connect.thoughtworks.com/g/?CVSLQ2P715:SS6RLKXL0F=ssID:542570819,email:nford@thoughtworks.com"> Agile Southeast 2009 Conference</a><br>
 Atlanta, GA <br>
  November 17, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Why, not How</b>&nbsp;[<a href="downloads/presentations/Why_not_How_(Neal_Ford).pdf"><i>slides</i></a>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/chicago/2009/11/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/chicago/2009/11/home">Great Lakes Software Symposium</a><br>
 Chicago, IL <br>
  November 13-15, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanices </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics.zip">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Communication Skills for Geeks</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2009/11/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
 <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2009/11/home">Northern Virginia Software Symposium</a><br>
 Reston, VA<br>
  November 6-8, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li>
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.oredev.org/ "><img  alt="oredev logo " src="images/Oredev2009banner.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.oredev.org/">Oredev</a><br>
 Malmo, Sweden <br>
  November 2-6, 2009<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pragmatic eXtreme Programming</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanices </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/ "><img  alt="The ServerSide Symposium " src="images/tss-js-generic.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/">The ServerSide Symposium</a><br>
 Prague, Czech Republic <br>
  October 27-28, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Keynote: Smithying in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</i></a>] 
<li><b>Hands-on Agile Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]&nbsp;[<i><a href="downloads/The_Productive_Programer-Test_Driven_Design_Chapter.pdf">TDD Solution</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2009/10/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2009/10/home">Greater Atlanta Software Symposium</a><br>
 Atlanta, GA <br>
  October 23-25, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Communication Skills for Geeks</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Hands-on Agile Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.heartlanddc.com/omaha/default.aspx "><img  alt="Heartland logo " src="images/2009-hdc.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.heartlanddc.com/omaha/default.aspx">Heartland Developers Conference</a><br>
 Omaha, NB <br>
  October 15-16, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Keynote: Smithying in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/Smithing_in_the_21st_Century(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>] 
<li><b>Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jaoo.dk/aarhus-2009/ "><img  alt="JAOO Logo " src="images/JAOO.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://jaoo.dk/aarhus-2009/">JAOO</a><br>
 Aarhus, Denmark <br>
  October 4-9, 2009<br>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.software-architect.co.uk/ "><img  alt="Software Architect logo " src="images/2009-software-architect-logo.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.software-architect.co.uk/">Software Architect 2009</a><br>
 London, UK <br>
  September 29 - October 1, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Communication Skills for Geeks</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://it-republik.de/dotnet/basta09/ "><img  alt="BASTA logo " src="images/speakerbutton_basta09_en.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://it-republik.de/dotnet/basta09/">BASTA</a><br>
 Mainz, Germany <br>
  September 21-25, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/10_Ways_to_Improve_Your_Code(Neal_Ford).pdf"><i>slides</i></a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanices </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/conferences/Productive_Programmer-Mechanics(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rheinjug.de/ "><img  alt="rheinjug logo " src="images/RheinJUGLogo.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.rheinjug.de/">rheinjug (Java Users Group Dusseldorf) </a><br>
  Dusseldorf, Germany <br>
  September 21, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.herbstcampus.de/ "><img  alt="Herbstcampus logo " src="images/herbstcampus.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.herbstcampus.de/">Herbstcampus</a><br>
 Nurnberg, Germany <br>
  September 14-17, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Keynote: Smithying in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</i>]</a>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Punchlist: Making Your Web Applications Suck Less</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Construction Techniques for Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jz09.java.no/ "><img  alt="JavaZone " src="images/javazone.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://jz09.java.no/">JavaZone</a><br>
 Oslo, Norway <br>
  September 9-10, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanices </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/raleigh/2009/08/home"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/raleigh/2009/08/home">Research Triangle Software Symposium</a><br>
 Raleigh, NC <br>
  August 28-30, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanices </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Hands-on Agile Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Unit Testing that Sucks Less: Small Things that Make a Big Difference</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://agile2009.agilealliance.com/ "><img  alt="agile 2009 " src="images/Agile2009_WebBadges_Speaker.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://agile2009.agilealliance.com/">Agile2009</a><br>
 Chicago, IL <br>
  August 24-28, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/des_moines/2009/08/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/des_moines/2009/08/index.html">Central Iowa Software Symposium Software Symposium</a><br>
 Des Moines, IA <br>
  August 7-9, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Unit Testing that Sucks Less: Small Things that Make a Big Difference</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Punchlist: Making Your Web Applications Suck Less</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://erubycon.com/ "><img  alt="erubycon icon " src="images/erubycon.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://erubycon.com/">erubycon</a><br>
 Columbus, OH <br>
  August 7 - 9, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Rails in the Large - Building the World's Biggest Rails App (Neal Ford and Paul Gross)</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations/">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/phoenix/2009/07/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/phoenix/2009/07/index.html">Desert Southwest Software Symposium Software Symposium</a><br>
 Phoenix, AZ <br>
  July 24-26, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Communication Skills for Geeks</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009 "><img  alt="OSCON logo " src="images/oscon2009_logo.gif " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009">OSCON</a><br>
 San Jose, CA <br>
  July 20 - 24, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby Tutorial </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/JRuby_Tutorial-OSCON(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/salt_lake_city/2009/07/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/salt_lake_city/2009/07/index.html">Salt Lake Software Symposium Software Symposium</a><br>
 Salt Lake City, UT <br>
  July 17-18, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Unit Testing that Sucks Less: Small Things that Make a Big Difference</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/austin/2009/07/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/austin/2009/07/index.html">Lone Star Software Symposium Software Symposium</a><br>
 Austin, TX <br>
  July 10-12, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.universite-du-si.com/?lang=fr "><img  alt="USI Conference " src="images/logo_usi.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.universite-du-si.com/?lang=fr">USI 2009</a> <br>
 Paris, France <br>
  July 1 - 2, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jazoon.com/en.html "><img  alt="Jazoon Conference " src="http://jazoon.com/dms/jazoon09/header/jazoon-logo/jazoon-logo.gif " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://jazoon.com/en.html">Jazoon</a><br>
 Zurich, Switzerland <br>
  June 22 - 25, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Keynote: Smithying in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</i>]
    </ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/columbus/2009/06/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/columbus/2009/06/index.html">Central Ohio Software Symposium</a><br>
 Columbus, OH <br>
  June 12-14, 2009<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/dallas/2009/06/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/dallas/2009/06/index.html">Lone Star Software Symposium</a><br>
 Dallas, TX <br>
  June 5-7, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Construction Techniques for Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Communication Skills for Geeks</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/ "><img  alt="JavaOne logo " src="images/2009-javaone.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/">JavaOne</a><br>
 San Francisco, CA <br>
  June 2-5, 2009<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Unit Testing that Sucks Less: Small Things that Make a Big Difference</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2009/05/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2009/05/index.html">Rocky Mountain Software Symposium</a><br>
 Denver, CO <br>
  May 29-21, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://nealford.com/downloads/presentations/The_Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics_(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://it-republik.de/konferenzen/railswaycon/ "><img  alt="RailsWay Conference " src="images/railswaycon09_speakerbutton_en.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://it-republik.de/konferenzen/railswaycon/">RailsWay</a><br>
 Berlin, Germany <br>
  May 25-27, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Rails in the Large - Building the World's Biggest Rails App (Neal Ford and Paul Gross)</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations/">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

            
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2009/05/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2009/05/index.html">Greater Atlanta Software Symposium</a><br>
 Atlanta, GA <br>
  May 15-17, 2009<br>

<ul>
  <li><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li>prag_<b>Pragmatic Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
</td></tr>
            
            
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.railsconf.com/ "><img  alt="RailsConf 2009 " src="images/2009-railsconf.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.railsconf.com/">RailsConf 2009</a><br>
 Las Vegas, NV <br>
  May 4-7, 2009<br>

<ul>
  <li><b>Rails in the Large-Building the Biggest Rails App (Neal Ford and Paul Gross)</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations/">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2009/04/index.html "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2009/04/index.html">Northern Virginia Software Symposium</a><br>
 Reston, VA <br>
  April 24 - 26, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b></span> [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/On_the_Lam_from_the_Furniture_Police(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Construction Techniques for Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Hands-on Agile Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics.zip">slides</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/jax/ "><img  alt="JAX-logo " src="images/jax09_speakerbutton_neu.gif " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/jax/">JAX 2009</a><br>
 Mainz, Germany <br>
  April 20-24, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Pragmatic Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

 
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sda-india.com/conferences/2009/JAX-INDIA/ "><img  alt="JAX-India " src="images/2009-jax-india.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.sda-india.com/conferences/2009/JAX-INDIA/">JAX-India</a><br>
 Bangalore, India <br>
  April 6-10, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Unit Testing that Sucks Less: Small Things that Make a Big Difference</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Communication Skills for Geeks</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/seattle/2009/04/index.html"><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/seattle/2009/04/index.html">Pacific Northwest Software Symposium</a><br>
 Seattle, WA <br>
  April 3-5, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b></span> [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/On_the_Lam_from_the_Furniture_Police(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>] 
    </ul>
  </td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.springseminar.ca/ "><img  alt="CIPS Spring Seminar " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Oc4AgmSLz2k/SaohRm7ZJeI/AAAAAAAAAEM/l0ytug-6Vuw/s160/cips.gif " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.springseminar.ca/">CIPS Spring Seminar 2009</a><br>
 Regina, Saskatchewan <br>
  March 31 - April 1, 2009<br>
<ul>
<li><b>Keynote: Smithying in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Acceleration &amp; Automation</span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Focus &amp; Canonicality </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>samples</i></a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
  </td></tr>
 
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.devweek.com/ "><img  alt="DevWeek 2009 " src="images/2009_DevWeek.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.devweek.com/">DevWeek</a><br>
 London, UK <br>
  March 23 - 27, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/canonical/DevWeek-10
Ways.pdf">slides</a>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Visualizations for Code Metrics</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Punchlist: Making Your Web Applications Suck Less</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.scandevconf.se/ "><img  alt="SDC 2009 " src="images/2009_sdc_conference.gif " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.scandevconf.se/">Scandinavian Developer Conference</a><br>
 Goteborg, Sweden <br>
  March 24, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b></span> [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/On_the_Lam_from_the_Furniture_Police(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

            
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/boston/2009/03/index.html "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/boston/2009/03/index.html">New England Software Symposium</a><br>
 Boston, MA <br>
  March 20-22, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics.zip">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Hands-on Agile Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] [<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a></i>]
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><b>Pragmatic Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/ "><img  alt="The ServerSide Symposium " src="images/2009-TSSJS-imspeaking.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/">The ServerSide Symposium</a><br>
 Las Vegas, NV <br>
  March 18 - 20, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b></span> [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/On_the_Lam_from_the_Furniture_Police(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
</td></tr>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/minneapolis/2009/03/index.html "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/minneapolis/2009/03/index.html">Twin Cities Software Symposium</a><br>
 Minneapolis, MN <br>
  March 13-15, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b></span> [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/On_the_Lam_from_the_Furniture_Police(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>] 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics.zip">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Hands-on Agile Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li>prag_<b>Pragmatic Domain Specific Languages</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 

    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/ "><img  alt="SDWest 2009 " src="images/2009_sdwest.gif " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/">Software Development West</a><br>
 Santa Clara, CA <br>
  March 9-13, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Building DSLs in Static and Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.devnexus.com/ "><img  alt="DevNexus logo " src="images/2009-devnexus.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.devnexus.com/">DevNexus</a><br>
 Atlanta, GA <br>
  March 10-11, 2009<br>

<ul>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b></span> [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/On_the_Lam_from_the_Furniture_Police(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i></a>] 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4developers.org.pl/ "><img  alt="4 developers " src="images/2009-4developers.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://4developers.org.pl/">4Developers</a><br>
 Krakow, Poland <br>
  March 7, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Advanced DSLs in Ruby</b>&nbsp;<i>[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides]</i></a>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: Ceremony vs. Essence</b></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/milwaukee/2009/02/index.html "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/NFJS_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/milwaukee/2009/02/index.html">Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium Software Symposium</a><br>
 Milwaukee, WI <br>
  February 27 - March 1, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b></span> [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/On_the_Lam_from_the_Furniture_Police(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>] 
<li><b>Emergent Design &amp; Evolutionary Architecture</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics.zip">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Hands-on Agile Development</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="donwloads/conferences/canonical/Neal_Ford-Hands_on_Agile_Development-slides.pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.iasahome.org/web/itarc/2009/atlanta "><img  alt="IASA ITArc Conference image " src="images/2009-iasa-itarc-atl.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.iasahome.org/web/itarc/2009/atlanta">IT Architect Regional Conference</a><br>
 Atlanta, GA <br>
  February 25-27, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Keynote: Smithying in the 21st Century</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="downloads/Neal_Ford-Smithying_in_the_21st_Century-slides.pdf">slides</a></i>]
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nfjsone.com/conference/raleigh/2009/02/index.html"><img  alt="RubyRX " src="images/RubyRx79x79.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nfjsone.com/conference/raleigh/2008/02/index.html">RubyRX</a><br>
 Raleigh, NC <br>
  February 19-21, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
  <li><b>Advanced DSLs in Ruby</b>&nbsp;<i>[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides]</i></a>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Ruby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Design_Patterns_for_Ruby-slides.pdf">slides</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.umsec.umn.edu/events/Code-Freeze-2009 "><img  alt="Code Freeze 2009 " src="http://www.umsec.umn.edu/sites/all/themes/umsec/images/code_freeze/code_freeze_2009/code_freeze_banner_2009.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.umsec.umn.edu/events/Code-Freeze-2009">Code Freeze 2009</a><br>
 Minneapolis, MN <br>
  January 15, 2009<br>
<ul>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: On the Lam from the Furniture Police</b></span> [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/On_the_Lam_from_the_Furniture_Police(Neal_Ford).pdf">slides</i>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.javagruppen.dk/aarskonference/ "><img  alt="Arskonference 09 " src="http://www.javagruppen.dk/aarskonference/18.image/18.jpg " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.javagruppen.dk/aarskonference/">Arskonference 09</a><br>
 Hindsgavl Castle in Denmark <br>
  January 9-10, 2009<br>
<ul>
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Java1_Comparing_Groovy_and_JRuby(45min).pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.jax-asia.com/index.php "><img  alt="JAX Asia 2008 " src="./images/jax-asia-2008.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.jax-asia.com/index.php">JAX-Asia 2008</a><br>
 Singapore / Kuala Lumpur / Jakarta<br>
  November 25-28, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Java1_Comparing_Groovy_and_JRuby(45min).pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/chicago/2008/11/index.html "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/chicago/2008/11/index.html">Great Lakes Software Symposium</a><br>
 Chicago, IL <br>
  November 21-23, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Punchlist: Making Your Web Applications Suck Less</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

	    
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://qconsf.com/sanfrancisco-2008/conference/"><img  alt="QCon San Francisco" src="images/Speaking_SF_link3.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://qconsf.com/sanfrancisco-2008/conference/">QCon San Francisco</a><br>
 San Francisco, CA <br>
  November 17-21, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>samples</i></a>]</span>
  <li><b>DSL Tutorial by Neal Ford, Martin Fowler, Rebecca Parsons</b> [<i><a href="downloads/conference/Neal_Ford_and_Martin_Fowler-QCON_DSL_Tutorial-slides.pdf">slides</a></i>]

    </ul>
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<TR>
  <TD STYLE="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2008/11/index.html "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2008/11/index.html">Rocky Mountain Software Symposium</a><br>
 Denver, CO <br>
  November 14-16, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics.zip">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Real-world Agile</b>&nbsp;<i>[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"></a>slides]</i>
<li><i>for David Bock</i>&nbsp;<b>Surviving Middle Management</b>&nbsp;<i>[<a href="http://www.davebock.com/media"></a>slides]</i>
  <li><i>for David Bock</i>&nbsp;<b>The Agile Product Owner</b>&nbsp;<i>[<a href="http://www.codesherpas.com/media">slides</a>]</i>
<li><i>for David Bock</i>&nbsp;<b>Maintaining Project Integrity</b>&nbsp;<i>[<a href="http://del.icio.us/bokmann/project_integrity">slides</a>]</i>
    </ul>
  </td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=doa2008cfp "><img  alt="DOA Conference " src="images/2008_DOA-conference.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=doa2008cfp">Distributed Objects, Middleware, and Applications</a><br>
 Monterrey, Mexico <br>
  November 10-12, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span> 
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rubyconf.org/ "><img  alt="RubyConf 2008 Logo " src="images/08rubyconf.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.rubyconf.org/">RubyConf 2008</a><br>
 Orlando, FL <br>
  November 6-8, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><b>Advanced DSLs in Ruby</b>&nbsp;<i>[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides]</i></a>
    </ul>
  </td></tr>


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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://sdbestpractices.com/ "><img  alt="SD Best Practices " src="images/2008-SDEast.png " /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://sdbestpractices.com/">SD East (Best Practices)</a><br>
 Boston, MA <br>
  October 27-30, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pragmatic eXtreme Programming</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] </span>
  
    </ul>
</td></tr>
	    
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2008/10/index.html "><img  alt="NFJS image" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2008/10/index.html">Greater Atlanta Software Symposium</a><br>
 Atlanta, GA <br>
  October 24-26, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[<a href=\"downloads/conferences/canonical/Neal_Ford-Productive_Programmer_-_Mechanics.zip\">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>	
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://08.jdd.org.pl/"><img  alt="Java Developer Days" src="images/2008_jdd.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://08.jdd.org.pl/">Java Developers' Day</a><br>
 Krakow, Poland <br>
  October 16, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Language Oriented Programming: Shifting Paradigms</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Language_Oriented_Programming-keynote.pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Java1_Comparing_Groovy_and_JRuby-slides.pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
    </ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.iasaconnections.com/shows/iasa2008fall/default.asp?s=119"><img  alt="IASA Conference" src="images/iasa_connections.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.iasaconnections.com/shows/iasa2008fall/default.asp?s=119">International Association of Software Architects Connections</a><br>
 San Francisco, CA <br>
  October 6-8, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
</ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jaoo.dk/conference"><img  alt="JAOO" src="images/jaoo_logo_top.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://jaoo.dk/conference">JAOO</a><br>
 Aarhus, Denmark <br>
  September 28-October 3, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><b>Real-World Refactoring</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Real-World_Refactoring.pdf">slides</a></i>]
<li><b>Building DSLs with Language Workbenches</b>&nbsp;[<i><a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Building_DSLs_with_Language_Workbenches.pdf">slides</i></a>]
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/seattle/2008/09/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/seattle/2008/09/index.html">Pacific Northwest Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  September 19-21, 2008<br>
  <!-- date range -->
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
  
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
  
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agile Project Management (featuring Mingle)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>	
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
    </ul>
  </td>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/boston/2008/09/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/boston/2008/09/index.html">New England Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  September 12-14, 2008<br><!-- date range -->
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>samples</i></a>]</span>
    </ul>
  </td>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.therichwebexperience.com/conference/washing_dc/index.html"><img  alt="Rich Web Experience" src="images/NOFL_RWE-East_125x125_spkr.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.therichwebexperience.com/conference/washing_dc/index.html">Rich Web Experience (East)</a><br>
 Washington, DC <br>
  September 4-6, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><Span style="font-weight: bold;">Debugging and Testing the Web Tier</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Web Punchlist: Making Your Web Applications Suck Less</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>
<li><Span style="font-weight: bold;">Effective Selenium</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>
    </ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.oreilly.com/railseurope2008/public/content/home"><img  alt="conf_description" src="http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/13/railseurope2008_spk_210x60.gif" width="210" height="60"  border="0"  alt="RailsConf Europe 2008" title="RailsConf Europe 2008"  /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/railseurope2008/public/content/home">RailsConf Europe</a><br>
 Berlin, Germany <br>
  September 2-4, 2008<br>
<ul>
  
  <li><b>Meta-programming Ruby for Fun &amp; Profit</b> [<a href="downloads/Ford-Farley_Meta_programming_ruby-tutorial.pdf"><i>slides</i>]</a><br>
  Pat Farley's Web site: <a href="http://www.klankboomklang.com/">Klank Boom Klang</a>
  
<li><b>Debugging &amp; Testing the Web Tier</b> [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>slides</i></a>]

</ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nljug.org/"><img  alt="Profict DevCamp" src="images/profict_dev_camp.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.nljug.org/">Profict Summer DevCamp</a><br>
 Amsterdam, Netherlands <br>
  August 29, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Language Oriented Programming: Shifting Paradigms</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Language_Oriented_Programming-keynote.pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Building DSLs in Static and Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>	    
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/orlando/2008/08/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/orlando/2008/08/index.html">Central Florida Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  August 22-24, 2008<br><!-- date range -->
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
    
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Mechanics </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
    </ul>
  </td>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.erubycon.com/"><img  alt="erubycon" src="images/2008-erubycon.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.erubycon.com/">erubycon</a><br>
 Columbus, OH <br>
  August 15-17, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: Ceremony vs. Essence</b></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
    </ul>
</td></tr>
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/cincinnati/2008/08/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/cincinnati/2008/08/index.html">Southern Ohio Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  August 15-17, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>samples</i></a>]</span>
<li>	<span style="font-weight: bold;">Implementing SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts]</a></span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Acceleration &amp; Automation </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Canonicality &amp; Focus </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
    </ul>
  </td>


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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/princeton/2008/08/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br />
  
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/princeton/2008/08/index.html">Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br />
  
  August 8-10, 2008<br />
   <!-- date range -->
   
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agile Project Management (featuring Mingle)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
  </td>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://agile2008.org/"><img  alt="Agile 2008" src="images/2008-agile-conference.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://agile2008.org/">Agile 2008 Conference</a><br>
 Toronto, Canada <br>
  August 4-8, 2008<br>
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Agile08-metrics-slides.pdf">handouts</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Ancient_Philosophers_and_Blowhard_Jamborees-Agile08.pdf">slides</a>]</span>
   
</ul>
</td></tr>


<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/des_moines/2008/08/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/des_moines/2008/08/index.html">Central Iowa Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  August 1-3, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
  <ul>
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Acceleration &amp; Automation </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Canonicality &amp; Focus </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  </ul>

  </td>
  
</tr>


<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rubynation.org/"><img  alt="Ruby Nation" src="http://www.rubynation.org/images/conference/badges/ruby_speaker.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.rubynation.org/">Ruby Nation</a><br>
 Tyson's Corner, VA <br>
  August 1, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><b>Keynote: Ceremony VS Essence</b>&nbsp; [<i><a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Ceremony_VS_Essence-keynote.pdf">slides</a></i>]</li>
</ul>
</td></tr>


<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/phoenix/2008/07/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/phoenix/2008/07/index.html">Desert Southwest Software Symposium</a> <!-- name -->               <br>
  July 25-27, 2008 <!-- date range --><br>

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>samples</i></a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Acceleration &amp; Automation </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Canonicality &amp; Focus </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>  
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/2007/archdesign/"><img  alt="Dr. Dobbs Architecture &amp; Design" src="images/dr-dobbs-a_and_d.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/2007/archdesign/">Dr. Dobb's Architecture &amp; Design</a><br />
  
 Chicago, IL <br />
  July 24-27, 2008<br />

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Building DSLs in Static and Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
</ul>  
  
</td></tr>  

 
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/salt_lake_city/2008/07/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/salt_lake_city/2008/07/index.html">Salt Lake Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  July 18-19, 2008 <!-- date range --><br>
<ul>
<li>  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span><b>Real World Agile</b></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agile Project Management (featuring Mingle)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pragmatic eXtreme Programming</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>

</ul>  
  </td>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/austin/2008/07/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/austin/2008/07/index.html">Lone Star Software Symposium</a><br> <!-- name -->
  July 11-13, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Acceleration &amp; Automation </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Canonicality &amp; Focus </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agile Project Management (featuring Mingle)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
  </td>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.agileitx.com/conference/reston/2008/06/index.html"><img  alt="Agile IT!" src="images/2008-agile-it-conference.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.agileitx.com/conference/reston/2008/06/index.html">Agile IT! Experience </a><br>
 Reston, VA <br>
  June 26-28, 2008<br>
  
<ul>
  <li><span><b>Real World Agile</b></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pragmatic eXtreme Programming</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
</td></tr>      

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://jazoon.com/en.html"><img  alt="Jazoon 2008" src="images/jazoon.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://jazoon.com/en.html">Jazoon 2008</a><br>
 Zurich, Switzerland<br> 
  June 23-26, 2008<br>
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Building DSLs in Static and Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/raleigh/2008/06/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/raleigh/2008/06/index.html">Research Triangle Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  June 20-22, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  
</ul>
  </td>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/europe/index.html"><img  alt="The ServerSide Symposium" src="images/serverside_symposium.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/europe/index.html">The ServerSide Java Symposium - Europe</a><br>
 Prague, Czechoslovakia <br>
  June 18-20, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Language Oriented Programming: Shifting Paradigms</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Language_Oriented_Programming-keynote.pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
</td></tr>

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/dallas/2008/06/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/dallas/2008/06/index.html">Lone Star Software Symposium</a><br> <!-- name -->
  June 6-8, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  
</ul>
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.software-architect.co.uk/"><img  alt="Software Architect" src="images/software_architect_08.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.software-architect.co.uk/">Software Architect 2008</a><br>
 London <br>
  June 3-5, 2008<br>
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>samples</i></a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2008/default.mspx"><img  alt="teched 2008" src="images/2008-tech-ed.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2008/default.mspx">Tech-Ed 2008</a><br>
 Orlando, FL <br>
  June 3-6, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>samples</i></a>]</span></li>
</ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/content/home"><img  alt="RailsConf 2008" src="images/rails2008 logo_conf.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/content/home">RailsConf 2008</a><br>
 Portland OR<br>
  May 29 - June 1, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><b>Meta-programming Ruby for Fun &amp; Profit Tutorial</b>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Ford-Farley_Meta_programming_ruby-tutorial.pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Ruby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Design_Patterns_for_Ruby-slides.pdf">slides</a>]</span>
</li>
  
</ul>
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://it-republik.de/conferences/dlw-europe/"><img  alt="DLWorld 08" src="images/08DLWord.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://it-republik.de/conferences/dlw-europe/">Dynamic Languages World 2008</a><br>
 Karlsruhe, Germany<br> 
  May 26 - 28, 2008<br>
  
<ul>
  <li><span><b>Keynote: Ceremony vs. Essence</b></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dynamic Language Metrics &amp; Analysis for Agile Projects</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
  
</td></tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2008/05/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/atlanta/2008/05/index.html">Greater Atlanta Software Symposium</a><br> <!-- name -->
  May 16-18, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->

  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agile Project Management (featuring Mingle)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>  
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/index.jsp"><img  alt="javaone" src="images/2008-speaking-at-javaone.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/index.jsp">JavaOne</a><br>
 San Francisco, CA<br> 
  May 6-9, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Java1_Comparing_Groovy_and_JRuby-slides.pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advanced Enterprise Debugging Techniques</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Enterprise_Debugging_Techniques.pdf">slides</a>] <i>[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Advanced_Enterprise_Debugging-samples.zip">samples</a>]</i></span>
</ul>
</td></tr>

   
<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2008/05/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/denver/2008/05/index.html">Rocky Mountain Software Symposium</a><br> <!-- name -->
  May 2 - 4, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Canonicality &amp; Focus </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Acceleration &amp; Automation </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2008/04/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/reston/2008/04/index.html">Northern Virginia Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  April 25 - 27, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
 <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
 <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
 <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
 <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
 <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>

  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/jax/"><img  alt="JAX 08" src="images/jax08.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/jax/">JAX 2008</a><br>
 Wiesbaden, Germany <br>
  April 21-25, 2008<br>                                         
  
<ul>
  <li><b>JRuby Tutorial</b> [<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-JRuby_Tutorial_for_JAX08-slides.pdf">slides</a>] [<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-JRuby_Tutorial_for_JAX08-samples.zip">samples</a>]</li>
 <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
 <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Comparing_Groovy_and_JRuby-slides.pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
 <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  
</ul>
</td></tr>


<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/seattle/2008/04/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/seattle/2008/04/index.html">Pacific Northwest Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  April 18 - 20, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations"><i>samples</i></a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Acceleration &amp; Automation </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Canonicality &amp; Focus </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
  </td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/boston/2008/04/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br />
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/boston/2008/04/index.html">New England Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br />
  April 4-6, 2008<br />
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]  [<a href="downloads/conferences/10ways_to_improve_your_code_samples.zip"><i>samples</i></a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Acceleration &amp; Automation </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Productive Programmer: Canonicality &amp; Focus </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Building DSLs in Static and Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agile Project Management (featuring Mingle)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span><span style="font-style: italic;">]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
  
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  </td>
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<tr>
  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/index.html"><img  alt="TSSJS" src="images/serverside_symposium.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/index.html">The ServerSide Java Symposium</a><br>
 Las Vegas, NV<br> 
  March 26-28, 2008<br>
  
<ul> 
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Language Oriented Programming: Shifting Paradigms</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Language_Oriented_Programming-keynote.pdf">slides</a>]</span>  </li>
</ul>
</td></tr> 

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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/minneapolis/2008/03/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/minneapolis/2008/03/index.html">Twin Cities Software Symposium</a><br> <!-- name -->
  March 14-16, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
  
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>  
</ul>
  </td>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://qcon.infoq.com/london/conference/"><img alt="qcon Logo" src="images/qcon_logo.jpg" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://qcon.infoq.com/london/conference/">QCon London</a><br>
  London <!-- name --> <br>
  March 10-14, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
  
<ul>
  <li><b>DSL Tutorial by Neal Ford, Martin Fowler, Rebecca Parsons</b> [<i><a href="downloads/conference/Neal_Ford_and_Martin_Fowler-QCON_DSL_Tutorial-slides.pdf">slides</a></i>]
</ul>
  </td>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.devweek.com/"><img alt="Dev Week Logo" src="images/dev_week_2008.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.devweek.com/">DevWeek 2008</a><br>
  London <!-- name --> <br>
  March 10-14, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]  [<a href="downloads/conferences/10ways_to_improve_your_code_samples.zip"><i>samples</i></a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
</ul>
  </td>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/2008/west/"><img alt="SDWest Logo" src="images/SeeMeSD.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.sdexpo.com/2008/west/">SD West</a><br>
  San Francisco, CA<br> <!-- name -->
  March 3-7, 2008<br> <!-- date range -->
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Debugging and Testing the Web Tier</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meta-programming /J?Ruby/</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]  [<a href="downloads/conferences/10ways_to_improve_your_code_samples.zip"><i>samples</i></a>]</span></li>
</ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/milwaukee/2008/02/index.html"><img style="width: 200px; height: 90px;" alt="NFJS Logo" src="images/nofluff-juststuff.gif" /></a></td>
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  No Fluff, Just Stuff<br>
  <a href="http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/milwaukee/2008/02/index.html">Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium</a> <!-- name --><br>
  February 29 - March 2, 2008 <!-- date range --><br>

<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Evolutionary SOA</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span>  </li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Test Driven Design</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Ancient Philosophers &amp; Blowhard Jamrobees</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Groovy</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li> 
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts]</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">JRuby on Rails</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Metrics Driven Agile Development</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Regular Expressions in Java</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span><span style="font-style: italic;">]&nbsp;[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Agile Project Management (featuring Mingle)</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>] [<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">samples</a>]</span> </li>

</ul>
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     <td style="text-align: center;"><img src="images/checkfree_logo.gif" alt="checkfree logo"/></td>
     <td>
CheckFree DevCon 2008<br/>
Atlanta, GA<br/> <!-- name -->
February 27-28, 2008<br/> <!-- date range -->

<ul>
<li>  <span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]  </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keynote: Language Oriented Programming: Shifting Paradigms</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Language_Oriented_Programming-keynote.pdf">slides</a>]</span>  </li>
</ul>
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     <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.groovygrails.com/gg/2gexperience"><img alt="g2One Logo" src="images/2008-2g.gif" /></a></td>
     <td>
<a href="http://www.groovygrails.com/gg/2gexperience">2G/The Groovy Grails Experience</a><br/>
Reston, VA<br/> <!-- name -->
February 21-23, 2008<br/> <!-- date range -->

<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Design Patterns" in Groovy</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>

<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Groovyizing Your Day Job</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Groovyizing_Your_Day_Job-slides.pdf">slides</a>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comparing Groovy &amp; JRuby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.actsasconference.com/"><img  alt="acts_as_a_conference" src="images/acts_as_a_conference_logo.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
  <a href="http://www.actsasconference.com/">acts_as_a_conference</a><br>
Orlando, FL<br>
February 8-9, 2008<br>
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Advanced DSLs in Ruby</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">slides</a>]</span>
</td></tr>
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  <td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://codemash.org/"><img  alt="Code Mash" src="images/code_mash_logo.png" /></a></td>
  <td>
<a href="http://codemash.org/">CodeMash</a><br>
Cleveland, OH<br> 
January 9-11, 2008<br>

<ul>
  <li><b>Keynote: Software "Engineering" &amp; Polyglot Programing</b> [<a href="downloads/conferences/Neal_Ford-Software_Engineering_and_Polyglot_Programming-slides.pdf">slides</a>]</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Building DSLs in Static and Dynamic Languages</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
</ul>
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  <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.sda-asia.com/conferences/jax-asia/singapore/jaxasia.php"><img  alt="JAX Asia Logo" src="images/2007_jax_asia.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  JAX Asia<br>
  <a href="http://www.sda-asia.com/conferences/jax-asia/singapore/jaxasia.php">Jakarta, Indonesia</a> <!-- name --><br>
  November 29-30, 2007<br> <!-- date range -->
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts]</a></span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">JRuby on Rails</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  
</ul>
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  <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.sda-asia.com/conferences/jax-asia/singapore/jaxasia.php"><img  alt="JAX Asia Logo" src="images/2007_jax_asia.gif" /></a></td>
  <td>
  JAX Asia<br>
  <a href="http://www.sda-asia.com/conferences/jax-asia/singapore/jaxasia.php">Singapore</a><br>
  November 26-27, 2007<br> <!-- date range -->
  
<ul>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">10 Ways to Improve Your Code</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">JRuby on Rails</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts</a>]</span></li>
  <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction to JRuby </span><span style="font-style: italic;">[<a href="http://github.com/nealford/presentations">handouts]</a></span></li>
</ul>
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