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VSJ | Articles | Productivity against all odds

Noticed this article which gives some good examples of things to try to improve productivity. I've now added the root folder suggestion to my list of MagicWords in slickrun http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ which in itself is a good productivity tool. Also, have got a printout of resharper key strokes next to my desk now and will be putting the mouse to my left to force me to use keystokes. Next thing is to create some submit hooks for tortoise to make the checklist for commits more seamless. Might consider getting the book too!

The Extreme Programming Club has changed it's name

Please visit www.agileyorkshire.org for details.

All postings for upcoming meetings will now be made there.

11th February 2009 - Test Driven Development

Test Driven Development: A practical overview from practitioners.

This will be an introduction to the what, why and how of TDD by way of a practical demonstration with plenty of chance for discussion/heckling.

The pair presenters will be Adam Pridmore and Neil McLaughlin who are software developers at Masternaut ThreeX. They are part of a team which has been practicing agile software development for several years in sunny Skipton.

The venue is our usual one (Victoria Hotel, Leeds) with general milling around from 18:30 and presentation at about 19:00

Everyone is welcome whether you are a first timer or a club veteran! If this is your first session, please try to locate Nick McKenna (Treasurer), Dave Turner (Chairman) or Neil McLaughlin (Secretary) when you arrive and they will buy you a drink!

14th of January 2008: AGM at O'Neils

Tomorrow,

at 7pm the XP Club meets up to discuss its future plans, issues and anything related.
We will meet at the O'Neils Pub (next door to Victoria Hotel Pub) and in a nice and friendly atmosphere will be cover the following agenda (thanks Dave):

• approve constitution


• Committee members (do we need roles and responsibilities, eg
  treasurer/ chairman/ secretary, or is this too heavyweight, and we are
  happy to just have 3, 4, 5, 6 committee members)


• Agree who is on the committee


• Bank account


• Website and hosting. I would suggest we point
  extremeprogrammingclub.com to point to www.agilist.net and rebrand
  there. extremeprogrammingclub.com is still a nice domain to have though.
  We also need to get the domain names signed across to the club. We also
  need to discuss improving the website. (I can feel an action coming to
  me, to finish what I start...)
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• Future speakers - how we get them. (I am currently speaking to BJSS,
  and hopefully they will offer to do something for us, and we can chase
  thoughtworks again)


• Conference, is having a one day conference (annual?) something we
  would like to do, or is it too much work


• Open source project?

Drinks and snacks thanks to our sponsors will be provided

see you there...

December meeting: Design Patterns and Christmas outing

We are very pleased to announce that on the 10th of December (2nd Wednesday) we are meeting at the Victoria Hotel Pub in the room behind the bar and we will have Gary Short presenting us a talk on Design Patterns. Finally we are hosting a Premiership speaker with loads of presenting experience, charisma and software development history spanning over the decades.


Gary is a Technical Evangelist for Developper Express, writes his personal blog for few years now, and work blog. Gary is an avid speaker presenting at various conferences and developers gatherings all over the country and on international stage too. Please see his blog for an extensive list of talks and while you there, please have a look at the tags, to see how many things interest Gary.


After the talk, some Q&A session and some networking, we will all head off to Leeds Christmas Market, to have some wurst, sauerkraut and continental lager.

Drinks and snacks thanks to our sponsors are free.

We will also draw one free personal license for any of the products by JetBrains - our fantastic sponsor.

November Meeting

On second Wednesday (12th of November @ 7pm for 7:30pm) at Victoria Hotel Pub in Leeds City Center, we are meeting to see a presentation by Daniel Drozdzewski about the future of computing.

After the presentation we will have an open discussion about design in software projects with focus on Agile methodologies.

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Drinks and snacks thanks to our sponsors are free.

We will also draw one free personal license for any of the products by JetBrains - our new sponsor.

October Meeting: "Agile Narrative" by Nick McKenna, Wednesday, 8th, 7pm for 7:30pm

As usual, on the second Wednesday at Victoria Hotel Pub, we are meeting to hear talk by Nick McKenna which will be on Agile Narrative. Nick as a Certified Scrum Practitioner in his last job has been responsible for turning team to Agile and introducing all the processes that come with it. Nick was kind enough to share his experience with the XP Club goers and we are very happy to see him presenting. Apart from talking about zero bugs policies and other clever things, Nick will also happily engage in the conversation about karate and diving.

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Drinks and snacks thanks to our sponsors are free.

We will also draw one free personal license for any of the products by JetBrains - our new sponsor.