You can read about it here: http://www.agilecollab.com/agile-in-india-interview-with-naresh-jain

As you might already know, Microsoft has agreed to host the next Simple Design and Testing Conference on Sep 12 - 14th 2008. Big thanks to Jim Newkirk, who has been the driving force on Microsoft’s side and is helping us organize this conference.

The venue for the conference is:

Microsoft Midwest
3025 Highland Pkwy., Suite 300
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Phone: (630) 725-4000
Fax: (630) 495-7764

For this year’s conference we are using the “Position Paper” approach, like last year. If you want to participate in this conference, please update your position paper on our wiki right now.

Also note that we need your help to make this event possible. Please have a look at the list of items that we need organizations/individuals to sponsor.

On Windows, if you are trying to run commands which access internet and stuck behind a proxy; here is a quick solution:

set http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy_ip_address:port

Thanks to Jigar Gosar for pointing this out.

I use http://bluehost.com for hosting all my sites. So far I’m very happy with their service. The only thing I wished they provided was subversion on the servers. But they don’t.

So I decided to find ways of installing subversion on a shared host. While researching about this about, I stumbled upon this excellent post http://joemaller.com/2008/01/29/how-to-install-subversion-on-a-shared-host/ by Joe Maller where is explains step by step how to install SVN on a shared host.

I’ll be presenting two tutorials at the XP 2008 conference : http://www.lero.ie/xp2008/tutorials.html

• Acceptance Test Driven Development
• Refactoring Fest

Agile Mumbai 2008 conference will be hosted by Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management & Engineering, Mumbai on the 28th and 29th March 200. For this conference we have decided to have only tutorials and workshops. There is a growing feeling that plain talks at conferences are not very effective. So we want to increase the participants experience at the conference by hand picking really good speakers who have excellent material to deliver.

Based on what has happened so far, I’m convinced that this will be a very successful conference. We have 5 international speakers and 7 national speakers. We have over 2 weeks to go and already we have 183 people who have registered on the website. Even though we can accommodate more people, we have decided to cap the conference at 150 participants. So if you want to make sure you get a seat at the conference, please block your seat by send in your registration fee in advance. More details : http://agileindia.org/registration?event_id=17