Looking forward to RubyConf India 2012 being held in Pune, India, over the weekend of 24-25 March 2012.

There are some great talks lined up... and I'm looking forward to meeting some ex-colleagues as well.

Charles Nutter is a lead developer of JRuby, the preferred deployment platform for many Ruby on Rails apps in the wild.

Charles will be in ThoughtWorks Pune office on 22 March 2012 (Thu) from 6pm onward.

He is looking forward to interacting with technology enthusiasts... and we may end up having discussions, debates, and possibly hack away at some code!

Having used Neo4j on a client project to implement social networking features like friending, activity streams, privacy levels, etc, from scratch, I'm really looking forward to what others in the local community have done with the graph database: the first Neo4j Pune Meetup is being held in ThoughtWorks Pune office on 21 Jan 2012, 4 - 6pm, where quite a few attendees are expected to turn up.

It is a great feeling to announce that Agile Alliance, the body behind the well-known and well-received international Agile conferences, is supporting the next Agile conference in India: Agile India 2012

This is an indicator of the serious adoption of agile methodologies by the Indian IT industry. Agile practitioners in the Indian industry are also catching attention worldwide, a fact reflected by the increasing number of Indian speakers in international conferences.

These are interesting times.

Fellow-ThoughtWorker Ola Bini, contributor to JRuby, is visiting India. He is currently in Pune, and will be in Bangalore for RubyConf India 2011.

While in Pune, Ola is helping conduct a few dev community events in our ThoughtWorks office. Please do plan to attend if you can! These are free events, and will give you a chance to interact with other dev enthusiasts.