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 Wednesdays, usually (but not exclusively) 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 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.
Meeting start at 8pm and run until 9:30pm. After which we usually adjourn for a drink and post-meeting discussion.
Mailing list
ACCU Oxford now has its own mailing list. Subscribe via //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
June
Wednesday 14th July, 8-9:30pm. WOCA, Seminar Room 2.
Jim Hague, My First Android App.
A little light summer diversion on writing apps for Android.
Google's Android platform has been quietly gaining in popularity since the release of the first Android consumer device in October 2008. The latest generation of Android smartphones offer a serious challenge even to the Cult of iPhone.
I've recently written my first Android app. During this talk, I'll give a brief introduction to Android, and take you through the process of writing a simple Android app, including the bumps and scrapes I picked up along the way.
Calendar
There's now a public Google calendar listing upcoming meetings. To add this to your Google calendar, click on “add” under “Other Calendars” then “Add a friend's calendar” and paste in the address below, then “ACCU Oxford” should appear in your list of “Other Calendars”. Here's the address, standing by itself for easy selection.
08fid76r192savkc1mu5u6jv14@group.calendar.google.com
Past meetings
16/6/10. Rob Bentall, Chartered Status
5/5/10. Post-conference review.
2/12/09. Hubert Matthews, Continuous integration with Hudson
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 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?
