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 ML<main@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 _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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 :-) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

Greg Thomas wrote:

On 2 June 2010 18:44, Mark Rogers <mark@quarella.co.uk> wrote:

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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. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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 list<main@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. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!