Dr. Dobb's Architecture & Design World: It's Coming Up

Per usual, I'll be traveling this week -- this time to Chicago. Which reminded me that I'll be traveling to Chicago again in July to the upcoming Dr. Dobb's Architecture and Design World, which is just over a month away.

I'm looking forward to both trips to the Windy City, and you're probably thinking that my excitement has something to do with deep-dish pizza. Well, yes, but more than that. I'm also looking forward to seeing a number of Dr. Dobb's authors, as well as other readers, speakers, and attendees.

For starters, there's DDJ columnist Scott Ambler who will be talking about "Evolving Agile: Time to Address the Uncomfortable Issues We’d Prefer to Avoid." Of course, I just saw Scott last week in Florida, but it's always a pleasure.

Then there is Ivar Jacobson who will be speaking on "Next Generation Process with Essential Modeling" which I bet is related to the articles he recently wrote for DDJ on EssWork and related topics.

Hopefully, I'll get a chance to meet for the first time Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz, my sidekick in this department's blog. Arnon will be speaking on a favorite topic of his -- SOA Patterns and the SPAMMED architectual framework, which he wrote about in DDJ.

There will be lots of other great speakers and sessions as well. For instance, I always look forward to hearing what Robert Martin has to say, and he will have several sessions this year on topics ranging from Design Patterns to Unit Testing.

But most of all, I look forward to meeting some of you there. And if we're really lucky, we'll meet in a pizza parlor.

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