ACCU is a community of programmers who care about programming. It is a forum for interacting and meeting with like minded programmers through discussions, the written word and conferences. ACCU is dedicated to raising the standard of programming.
ACCU 2012 is the annual conference which takes place in Oxford between 25th - 28th April. The conference digs deep into software development, software architecture, project management, software testing and programming culture and best practices.
ACCU 2012 consists of 1 day of Tutorials followed 4 conference days spread over 5 tracks! Speakers include Allan Kelly, Jurgen Appelo, Kevlin Henney, Charles Bailey, Tim Lister, Tom Gilb and many more! Choose from 3 pre-conference tutorials as follows:
- The C++11 Standard Library - New Features, new Tools, new Patterns, new Pitfalls by Nico Josuttis
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The Art of Garbage Collector Tuning (for the SUN/Oracle HotSpot JVM) by Angelika Langer and Klaus Kreft
- Advanced IT Design and Architecture by Tom Gilb
View the full schedule for the Tutorials and the 4 conference days
here.
Registration Is Open!
- ACCU-members: Pre-Conference Tutorial Day Ticket = £175, 4-day Conference Ticket = £595.
- Non-ACCU members: Pre-Conference Tutorial Day Ticket = £200, 4-day Conference Ticket = £695.
Other ticket options are available including 1-day Conference tickets and discounted rates for Students. Full details can be found
here.
SPECIAL SKILLS MATTER COMMUNITY DISCOUNT!
We are delighted to announce that the organisers of ACCU are offering non-ACCU Members in the Skills Matter Community an exclusive discount of £50 off the price of the full 4-day Conference! To book your ticket with the £50 discount applied, please use promocode SM50 when registering. This discount is only available for bookings made before 1st April so hurry before the offer runs out!
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Tuesday 24th April 2012
Track 1
SIMON SEBRIGHT - SHAREPOINT FOR THINKING DEVELOPERS IN 5 MINS
PHIL NASH - WHY I DO WHAT I DO
BERNHARD MERKEL: FIND(ING) BUGS IS EASY
CHARLES BAILEY - THE RANT OF THREE
FRANK BIRBACHER - STYLE C++ FOR VERSION CONTROL
DOMINIC ROBINSON: THE BEARD HEURISTIC
CHRIS OLDWOOD - NOT ONLY, BUT ALSO…
DIOMIDIS SPINELLIS - NAME !SHAME: RATIONAL NAMING
ERIK SCHLYTER - TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES PATTERN
ANDERS SCHAU KNATTEN - AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS
Wednesday 25th April 2012
Track 1
09:30 TIM LISTER ON PROJECT PATTERNS: FROM ADRENALIN JUNKIES TO TEMPLATE ZOMBIES
: In this talk, Tim will start the talk with some examples from the book project. He will then let the audience offer up some of their own patterns.
View the podcast here...
Thursday 26th April 2012
Track 1
09:30 PHIL NASH: THE CONGRUENT PROGRAMMER
: Phil Nash: Why do we do what we do? Are we doing what we want to do? The way we want to do it? How can we use the answers to these questions to get better at whatever it was we were doing in the first place?
View the podcast here...
11:00 PETER SOMMERLAD: C++11 FOR THE REST OF US. SIMPLER CODE WITH MORE POWER - PART 1
: Peter Sommerlad:Prof. Peter Sommerlad is head of IFS Institute for Software at FHO/HSR Rapperswil. Peter is co-author of the books POSA Vol.1 and Security Patterns. His goal is to make software simpler by Decremental Development: Refactoring software down to 10% its size with better architecture, testability and quality and functionality.
View the podcast here...
11:00 DIDIER VERNA ON DSLS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EXTENSIBLE LANGUAGES
: The purpose of this presentation is to envision the process of DSL design and implementation from the perspective of extensible GPLs, and to show how the capabilities of the original application's GPL can have a dramatic impact on DSL conception.
View the podcast here...
15:45 HENRIK BERGLUND - IS SCRUM INCOMPATIBLE WITH YOUR BRAIN?
: When you start using Scrum, interesting things start happening in your brain. This talk will show you how to handle this and other basic human issues that occur when you start working on changing and improving.
View the podcast here...
