This is my goodbye letter to the Extreme Tuesday Club, my favourite development community. It's been quite a journey, for both the club and me. This blog post is a bit of a history of XTC, mainly through my eyes, but including hearsay about other when times I wasn't there. I'd love to hear other … Continue reading Joe’s Farewell to the Extreme Tuesday Club →

2017 was a transformative year for XTC. I can say it's the year we definitively stepped up from "not quite dead" to "vibrant and engaged". I can lay the credit on this to a couple of changes we made to the format at the start of 2017: Reduce occurence from weekly to fortnightly Ensure that … Continue reading Extreme Tuesday Club: 2017 Retrospective →

It's been about 15 months since I first volunteered to help out with the organisation of the Extreme Tuesday Club (XTC). When I first started visiting XTC around 2005, I would turn up and could pretty feel assured that someone would be there (or more often 10-20 someones), and there would be awesome conversations. At the end … Continue reading XTC 2016 Retrospective →