====== ACCU Oxford ======

The Oxford postcode area has more ACCU members than any other single postcode area. It seemed a pity to me that there was no local group, so a select group met for the inaugural meeting on 25/6/08.

Meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. To the extent that we can be said to have a default meeting place, it's the West Oxford Community Centre (WOCA) on Botley Road. Their [[http://www.woca.org.uk|website]] has directions. If you're coming by car, there is some car parking space at the Centre, and nearby Ferry Hinksey Road has some public spaces usually free in the evenings. Meetings are held in one of the seminar rooms. The entrance to these is at the right hand side of the building. Don't go in the front door.

===== Mailing list =====

ACCU Oxford now has its own mailing list. Subscribe via [[the web page][ http://accu.org/mailman/listinfo/accu-oxford]].

To post to the list, email ''accu-oxford@accu.org''. To keep spam volumes down, posts from non-members will be held for moderation.

The list is intended to be low volume, primarily for meeting announcements and 
other administrivia.
===== Forthcoming meetings =====

**November (well, December)**

Wednesday 2nd December. WOCA, Seminar Room 2.

Hubert Matthews, //Continuous integration with Hudson//

Hubert shows us how to automate your builds and more with Hudson.

===== Past meetings =====

28/10/09 Nigel Lester, //Coping with requirements//

24/6/09 Derek Jones & Clive Pygott, //Programming Language Vulnerabilities//

27/5/09. Post-conference review.

25/3/09. Russel Winder. //Fortran is not the only language for parallel computing.//

28/1/09. Hubert Matthews. //Unit testing legacy C code.//

26/11/08. Phil Armstrong. //Hindley Milner Datatypes and Haskell.//

29/10/08. Open discussion. //What are the qualities of a good software development manager, and why are there so few of them? And what do they think makes a good developer?//

24/9/08. Pete Dillon, //The Mainframe, and Cobol - when you need it, you **really** need it.//

Technical problems prevented Pete showing some images of mainframe equipment of days of yore. This images are [[here|OldMainframePics]].

30/7/08. Chris Jefferson, //What's new in C++0x this week?//

25/6/08. Jim Hague, //Organising cross-platform code bases//, and Phil Armstrong, //Hindley Milner Datatypes: Bee's Knees or Mutt's Nutts?//