A new ACCU Cambridge group is launching on 5th July at 19:00 with a talk from Pete Goodliffe entitled ‘Code Monkeys’. You don’t have to be an ACCU member to take part.

Synopsis:

Good programmers care about writing good code. Bad programmers… don’t.

In this talk Pete Goodliffe will investigate what it takes to be an excellent programmer. It’s a practical presentation that comes from the trenches (with a series of accompanying battle scars.) On the way, we’ll stroll through a gallery of social freaks and misfits and we’ll come to some surprise conclusions about what it means to write good software.

It’s interactive and fun, and it’ll make you a better programmer.

For more details see ACCU Cambridge.

Terence Parr has a new book out that looks to be of interest: “The Definitive ANTLR Reference: Building Domain-Specific Languages“.

The blurb I’ve seen notes that the book “shows how to use the brand new, latest version of ANTLR to create DSLs, convert text formats, and more.”

O’Reilly are sending me a copy of the book to review for the Code Generation Network (CGN) and I’m hoping to catch up with Terence for an interview. Terence’s StringTemplate template engine was covered in an earlier article on CGN.