Preparations have been made, presentations have been written, and tickets have been ordered.

Talks for OSCON 2005

As mentioned here earlier, I’m doing a talk on Dependency Injection at OSCON this year. I’ve given the talk twice now for practice (thanks to both the Cincinnati XP Users Group and the Cincinnati Java Users Group for being my guinea pigs). Both practice runs went fairly well. I rewrote about half the talk between the first and second trial runs and am much happier with the result. The hardest part is knowing what not to say, otherwise I could talk for hours (OSCON presentations are 45 minutes long).

What I haven’t mentioned is that I’ll be giving a second talk there as well. It seems there was cancellation in the Ruby track and they had another opening, so the “10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby” is going to OSCON as well. This should be good, the “10 Things” talk is a fun one to give.

However, I did a practice run on the “10 Things” talk at the Cincinnati Programmers Guild last week and the timing was way off. I ended up talking for nearly an hour and 45 minutes. I’m going to have to to some serious cutting and trimming on that talk to get it into the 45 minute window, actually make that 35 minutes because I would like to leave 10 minutes for questions.

If you are in the Columbus Ohio area and would like to hear yet another practice run, I’ll be at the Columbus Ruby Brigade on July 19th. It will probably be the dependency injection talk. Time and location hasn’t been set quite yet, but I’ll announce more when I know more.

Cincinnatians at OSCON

John Wilger has announced he will be at OSCON, and Chris Nelson (Mr. Trails) will be there speaking about his Trails project (see this java.net article for a preview to Chris’s talk). Both John and Chris live within a few miles of my house, so I officially declare Finneytown to be the OSCON-off-cite center of the conference. From elsewhere in Cincinnati, a friend from the Cincinnati Linux Users Group has mentioned to me that he is also going. Anyone else planning on going?