Well life has been pretty busy as of late and is only getting more so. I have received the rough draft of my JUnit and EasyMock Refcard and am preparing to turn in my comments later today. For those who are not famaliar with the DZone Refcards, they are “Cheatsheets for Developers”. What I compare them to is the reference cards you find in bookstores on things like Calculus, Physics, Biology, etc. The one I have written is an introduction to JUnit and EasyMock. That is the first piece of writing I will have actually published, so to see my name in print is pretty weird. It is currently scheduled to be out November 3rd.

I also have agreed to be a technical reviewer for a book. I will be one of the reviewers for an upcoming book from Packt Publishing (the ones with the black and orange covers) on Struts 2 and Agile development. Judging from the outline, it looks like a good overview of the Agile process using Struts 2 for a web framework. I’m excited to be a part of that project. That book should be in bookstores sometime in November.

Finally, in association with my Refcard, I will be speaking at the October meeting of WindySphere. For those of you who are IBM WebSphere users, you may have heard of this group. WindySphere is a Chicago based group that focuses on Java and IBM products (WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, etc). I will be giving an introduction to JUnit and EasyMock. I will post a more detailed post on Monday about the details of this event.