Hi All
I'm a software engineer at Validus on Princes Street in Norwich and have been an active member of the ACCU (www.accu.org) for nearly 10 years. While I was working for Lehmans at Canary Wharf I helped set up the London ACCU chapter. It continues to run monthly development related events, which usually take the form or a 60min presentation by a speaker.
I think there are about 5 ACCU members in Norwich, which isn't really enough to setup a local chapter, but there are plenty of software companies (validus, virgin money, virgin wines, aviva, etc).
So the reason I'm emailing you guys is to see if there's an appetite for doing something similar in Norwich..? Maybe quarterly to begin with.
What do you think? How many here are developers?
Thanks Paul
On 2 June 2010 16:25, Paul Grenyer paul.grenyer@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a software engineer at Validus on Princes Street in Norwich and have been an active member of the ACCU (www.accu.org) for nearly 10 years. While I was working for Lehmans at Canary Wharf I helped set up the London ACCU chapter. It continues to run monthly development related events, which usually take the form or a 60min presentation by a speaker.
I think there are about 5 ACCU members in Norwich, which isn't really enough to setup a local chapter, but there are plenty of software companies (validus, virgin money, virgin wines, aviva, etc).
So the reason I'm emailing you guys is to see if there's an appetite for doing something similar in Norwich..? Maybe quarterly to begin with.
What do you think? How many here are developers?
I'm a developer. I've been looking into ACCU, downloaded a few of the Overload pdfs, not yet joined.
Srdjan
Hi
(Please excuse the top posting - I'm restricted to Blackberry).
You should of course join the ACCU, but then I would say that wouldn't I? :-)
The jewel in the crown is of course our conference. The community and the publications are also excellent.
As a developer it's the best £35 you'll spend a year...
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: Srdjan Todorovic todorovic.s@googlemail.com Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:36:31 To: ALUG MLmain@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Anglian Developer Network?
On 2 June 2010 16:25, Paul Grenyer paul.grenyer@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a software engineer at Validus on Princes Street in Norwich and have been an active member of the ACCU (www.accu.org) for nearly 10 years. While I was working for Lehmans at Canary Wharf I helped set up the London ACCU chapter. It continues to run monthly development related events, which usually take the form or a 60min presentation by a speaker.
I think there are about 5 ACCU members in Norwich, which isn't really enough to setup a local chapter, but there are plenty of software companies (validus, virgin money, virgin wines, aviva, etc).
So the reason I'm emailing you guys is to see if there's an appetite for doing something similar in Norwich..? Maybe quarterly to begin with.
What do you think? How many here are developers?
I'm a developer. I've been looking into ACCU, downloaded a few of the Overload pdfs, not yet joined.
Srdjan
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On 02/06/10 17:54, Paul Grenyer wrote:
You should of course join the ACCU, but then I would say that wouldn't I? :-)
The jewel in the crown is of course our conference. The community and the publications are also excellent.
As a developer it's the best £35 you'll spend a year...
I was a member of ACCU many moons ago, but rarely use C or even C++ these days so let it lapse (probably last millennium!)
Taking a look now at http://accu.org/index.php/aboutus .. aside from the fact that the page is broken on my Firefox, it seems ACCU is more language agnostic now than it used to be, but I can't see anything specific about that.
The page seems fine on my other desktop, so I'll assume that it's a local issue unless anyone else has the same problem. A bit embarrassing on a page which says "ACCU is dedicated to raising the standard of programming" otherwise :-)
Hi Mark
I'll raise that website issue, thanks!
Yes, the ACCU is far more language agnostic these days. Take a look at the conference program for proof.
Thanks Paul
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:44:05 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Anglian Developer Network?
On 02/06/10 17:54, Paul Grenyer wrote:
You should of course join the ACCU, but then I would say that wouldn't I? :-)
The jewel in the crown is of course our conference. The community and the publications are also excellent.
As a developer it's the best £35 you'll spend a year...
I was a member of ACCU many moons ago, but rarely use C or even C++ these days so let it lapse (probably last millennium!)
Taking a look now at http://accu.org/index.php/aboutus .. aside from the fact that the page is broken on my Firefox, it seems ACCU is more language agnostic now than it used to be, but I can't see anything specific about that.
The page seems fine on my other desktop, so I'll assume that it's a local issue unless anyone else has the same problem. A bit embarrassing on a page which says "ACCU is dedicated to raising the standard of programming" otherwise :-)
On 2 June 2010 18:44, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
I was a member of ACCU many moons ago, but rarely use C or even C++ these days so let it lapse (probably last millennium!)
Taking a look now at http://accu.org/index.php/aboutus .. aside from the fact that the page is broken on my Firefox, it seems ACCU is more language agnostic now than it used to be, but I can't see anything specific about that.
The page seems fine on my other desktop, so I'll assume that it's a local issue unless anyone else has the same problem. A bit embarrassing on a page which says "ACCU is dedicated to raising the standard of programming" otherwise :-)
Renders OK here, but there are a handful of CSS errors that Firefox throws up ;)
You wouldn't accept a 'C' program with compile time errors/warnings, so why HTML?
Greg
Greg Thomas wrote:
On 2 June 2010 18:44, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
I was a member of ACCU many moons ago, but rarely use C or even C++ these days so let it lapse (probably last millennium!)
Taking a look now at http://accu.org/index.php/aboutus .. aside from the fact that the page is broken on my Firefox, it seems ACCU is more language agnostic now than it used to be, but I can't see anything specific about that.
The page seems fine on my other desktop, so I'll assume that it's a local issue unless anyone else has the same problem. A bit embarrassing on a page which says "ACCU is dedicated to raising the standard of programming" otherwise :-)
Renders OK here, but there are a handful of CSS errors that Firefox throws up ;)
You wouldn't accept a 'C' program with compile time errors/warnings, so why HTML?
Seems to render OK here in FF - but it's woefully slow loading. I wasn't prepared to waste time checking all the links.
I mean really, *REALLY* slow.
On 2 June 2010 20:18, Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk wrote:
Greg Thomas wrote:
On 2 June 2010 18:44, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
Seems to render OK here in FF - but it's woefully slow loading. I wasn't prepared to waste time checking all the links.
I mean really, *REALLY* slow.
Loads fine here.
Srdjan
All
Thanks for the comments on the ACCU website, I'm passing them on to the webmaster.
But could we get back to my original question? :-)
Paul -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Anson tony.anson@girolle.co.uk Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:18:52 To: Alug listmain@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Anglian Developer Network?
Greg Thomas wrote:
On 2 June 2010 18:44, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
I was a member of ACCU many moons ago, but rarely use C or even C++ these days so let it lapse (probably last millennium!)
Taking a look now at http://accu.org/index.php/aboutus .. aside from the fact that the page is broken on my Firefox, it seems ACCU is more language agnostic now than it used to be, but I can't see anything specific about that.
The page seems fine on my other desktop, so I'll assume that it's a local issue unless anyone else has the same problem. A bit embarrassing on a page which says "ACCU is dedicated to raising the standard of programming" otherwise :-)
Renders OK here, but there are a handful of CSS errors that Firefox throws up ;)
You wouldn't accept a 'C' program with compile time errors/warnings, so why HTML?
Seems to render OK here in FF - but it's woefully slow loading. I wasn't prepared to waste time checking all the links.
I mean really, *REALLY* slow.
Hi Paul,
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Paul Grenyer paul.grenyer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All
I'm a software engineer at Validus on Princes Street in Norwich and have been an active member of the ACCU (www.accu.org) for nearly 10 years. While I was working for Lehmans at Canary Wharf I helped set up the London ACCU chapter. It continues to run monthly development related events, which usually take the form or a 60min presentation by a speaker.
I think there are about 5 ACCU members in Norwich, which isn't really enough to setup a local chapter, but there are plenty of software companies (validus, virgin money, virgin wines, aviva, etc).
So the reason I'm emailing you guys is to see if there's an appetite for doing something similar in Norwich..? Maybe quarterly to begin with.
What do you think? How many here are developers?
Thanks Paul
I am a software developer and interested in the above.
Regards Ian
On 02/06/10 16:25, Paul Grenyer wrote:
Hi All
I'm a software engineer at Validus on Princes Street in Norwich and have been an active member of the ACCU (www.accu.org) for nearly 10 years. While I was working for Lehmans at Canary Wharf I helped set up the London ACCU chapter. It continues to run monthly development related events, which usually take the form or a 60min presentation by a speaker.
I think there are about 5 ACCU members in Norwich, which isn't really enough to setup a local chapter, but there are plenty of software companies (validus, virgin money, virgin wines, aviva, etc).
So the reason I'm emailing you guys is to see if there's an appetite for doing something similar in Norwich..? Maybe quarterly to begin with.
What do you think? How many here are developers?
Used to be an ACCU member last century. (1990s) Even had a couple of articles published. Gave it up as I've done hardly any (paid for) C this century.
Almost due for retirement now, so not really worth it.
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