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May is going to be a busy month, with several conferences and events lined up.

On May 14 I will be giving a lecture on Web 2.0 technologies for the Web 2.0 Start-Ups - Vom Entrepreneur zum Business Angel seminar at the Technical University of Berlin. This seminar, organized by Timo Glaser, is packed with German Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, and founders. My lecture will cover why start-ups nowadays are able to deliver great services and products so fast. Amazons Web Services, Google App Engine, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, and Open Source tools will be part of the story.

	On May 27 -28 I will be at the Dynamic Languages World Europe conference in Karlsruhe. With speakers like Neal Ford, Jason Seifer, Stefan Tilkov or Gregg Pollack there is some interesting line-up. I will be talking about Ruby on Rails Security, from deployment security to CSRF or XSS in Rails.
	May ends for me with Linuxtag 2008 here in Berlin (May 28 - 31). There I will also talk about Ruby on Rails Security. Further, it seems like a very interesting project I'am part of will present a sneak peak.

The conference season is starting again for me and I wanted to note where I will be/speak during the next couple of weeks.

First, there is Ruby Fools Copenhagen (April 1st and 2nd) where I will speak in the Ruby Performance track about Rails on AWS and how to leverage EC2, S3, and SQS in your application. The lineup at Ruby Fools looks really good with speakers like Glenn Vanderburg, Michael Koziarski, Evan Phoenix, Dr. Nic Williams, Dave Thomas, and Matz himself. Unfortunately I will not have too much time in Copenhagen as I have to leave early for Scotland on Rails in Edinburgh.

I'm really looking forward to be in Edinburgh again. After living, studying, and working there it feels like a second home. At Scotland on Rails (April 4th and 5th) I will talk about Rails Patterns: typical problems and scenarios in Rails applications like asynchronous operations (image processing, calculations, ..), authentication or deployment and common solutions and best practices.

In Mai I will be at Linuxtag 2008 in Berlin and hopefully talk about Ruby on Rails Security, but this talk has not been confirmed yet. Further, there is a chance that I will be speaking a the iX Cebit Forum 2008 about our internal Software Development Process and Agile Development.