Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/05/xp_club_north/
Extreme Programmers! Meet up in Leeds
Yes, Ermintrude, there is life up north...
Posted in Developer, 5th January 2007 16:34 GMT
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eXtreme Programmers are nothing if not clubbable, but the eXtreme Tuesday Club (XtC [1]) is a City thing, as in the City of London, and I'd hate for Reg Dev to seem London-centric. So, as there are also plenty of eXtreme Programmers up North, I was interested to hear of one of them (with some sponsorship from Erudine) trying to get another XP club going....
Check out it out here [2] if you're going to be in the Leeds area....
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If there is one trend in 21st Century development, it is the importance of online developer communities as a balance to employer and vendor interests. Although, once again, perhaps this trend isn't so new after all...
Remember the power of Share [3] (its official site is here [4]) in the IBM mainframe world? And the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG [5]) is a power in the Oracle world too; and then there's... Perhaps it's only in the Wonderful World of Desktop Computing where the vendors have all the power!