Announcing a new kind of events: AltNetCrossTalks, this Friday at MRM!

And there you go. When you can’t scale up, scale out! We’re creating a new kind of talks, one where communities will meet and cross the technological Styx.

The first one is on Ruby, RubyOnRails and IronRuby, the presenter is Shay Friedman, the place is MRM, the time is this friday, and the this is the link.

Last day to enter the raffle for a ticket to Roy Osherove’s TDD workshop

As you know, Roy is delivering the first of our AltNetWorkshops on Saturday the 26th of September. Most of the tickets are now gone, but you have the chance to enter a raffle for the last remaining ticket by sending me an email at seb@serialseb.com

The first AltNetWorkshop with Roy Osherove on Intro to TDD

I'm very glad to announce that we launched the AltNetGroup website last week, and opened the first couple of tickets to the first AltNetWorkshop, something that I've been very keen on organizing. Roy has been generous enough, together with bbits and Onalytica, to give the first of our workshops for free. The bad news is that the event date has changed, and is now handled on the 26th of September. The good news is that there will be another 5 tickets, of which two will be released on monday, and two additional ones on tuesday. This leaves us with one last final ticket that will be picked randomly to all those sending me an email to seb@serialseb.com.

Alternative Network Group News – AltNetBeers #12

As the ever excellent Udi Dahan is in town, it’s only natural that I organize an AltNetBeers. So get ready for another session on the 16th of September! You can register now on the ukdotnet site.

Seb does Ireland – 30th of September to 3rd of October

And because I’m equally excited about going back to Ireland as I am going back to Scotland, I’ll be doing a bunch of things there.

Wednesday 30th September

Dublin alt.net at 8pm in Seagrass http://www.seagrassdublin.com

An intro to OpenRasta 

Thursday 1st October

Dublin

Not confirmed yet but should be a talk on agility in Dublin

Friday 2nd of October

Galway

Speaking at a conference on agility, will post about it when I get more details.

Seb does Scotland – 23rd to 25th of September

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve been a up north, and with such a great community up there, it was only a matter of time before I got back. Frankly, I was just looking for an excuse, and the guys have given me a beautiful one!

So here’s the schedule.

Wednesday 23rd September

Dundee – http://www.eventbrite.com/event/390722662/seb

When agile goes bad, how to stay calm and move forward

With applying agile methodologies comes changes in many aspects of delivering software. And with any change will come a time when something fails. How to keep everyone calm? How to provide practical solutions to prevent people from reverting back to non-agile practices at the first roadblock? Through examples gathered from personal experience and the community, we’ll explore ways to prevent the boat from sinking at the first spilled glass of water.

Thursday 24th September

Edinburgh - http://www.eventbrite.com/event/390708620/seb

An intro to OpenRasta

Everybody seems to rediscover the MVC model, and new frameworks seem to appear all the time. Most of those hide the richness of the web. Come discover OpenRasta, a very opinionated framework that help you write MVC-style web applications and data services, using a unified API.

Friday 25th September

AltNetBeers Scotland edition

The scot alt.net guys have asked me to facilitate a session of AltNetBeers, which I’m really excited about. Will update with the details when I know where it’ll be organized.

See you there!