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- 29 May 2022
Make The Dead Fish Swim - Test Driven Golang
Today we are going to take a look at solving "Make The Dead Fish Swim" - A Codewars challenge ranked '6 kyu' and we are going to do it using Test Driven Development. First of all, let us look at the challenge we are going to tackle: Write a simple parser that will parse and run D...
- 27 May 2022
Driving culture change
When Ben Frost first joined Bourne Leisure as Head of Product, he soon realised that getting users’ opinions was paramount. Bourne are the owners of Haven Holidays. Here he explains how he implemented a system that involved both users and devs. First discoveries Coming from the T...
- 23 May 2022
Product Hunt Kitty comes to Norwich!
Norwich startup SupaPass launches on Product Hunt today, so this Kitty doesn’t need to lift a paw! Hey, I’m the Product Hunt Kitty. You may recognise me from the Golden Kitty Awards, won by innovators like Elon Musk. I love prowling around hunting tech products and mice, and oth...
- 20 May 2022
Talking Tech Educators
Tech investor, Akcela founder and Conference sponsor, James Adams, is rapidly gaining an awesome reputation on the Norwich tech scene. We talked to James about Akcela’s latest startup, Tech Educators. Norwich has a lot of people with great ideas in terms of building a business bu...
- 18 May 2022
Web Scraping static web pages in .Net Core
OverviewI was talking to a developer friend the other day about starting a little side project where you could keep track of the product prices on supermarket websites and trend them over time. This would allow a user to see what’s increasing in price at any given moment. Unfortu...
- 17 May 2022
YakBit - making inclusion in the workplace matter
Educator Mary-Jo Hill explains how YakBit can revolutionise workplace inclusion ahead of her conference speech. Having taught in education for 25 years and worked as an advisor, and then later as a leadership coach. Mary-Jo realised that many in the classroom have difficulty in h...
- 15 May 2022
My personal surprises when learning to code.
Having got into coding recently there have certainly been some surprises for me. Some of it had stemmed from how the code works Vs how I expected it to work. Some things seem counterintuitive until I dive and delve further into the why as well as the what and then it makes sense....
- 8 May 2022
Feeling lost is not only for beginners
Below are my current thoughts and feelings regarding development as a career.I wanted to share them publicly because I feel like it is important to show thateven though I have been a developer for a few years now, it is entirely normalto feel a little deflated or burnt out. Anywa...
- 5 May 2022
Devs, design & users
Ahead of her conference speech, Katie Fisher, senior experience strategist at Norwich based, The User Story, talked to us about the importance of UX. Evidence and psychology UX is psychology driven. Katie clarifies how user experience or rather, user experience research, is about...
- 3 May 2022
Where it all started
nor(DEV): was founded 9 years ago by local software engineer, Paul Grenyer, and we thought it was important to kick off our interviews with speakers and sponsors by talking to him and discovering more about the roots of the conference. Background notes Back in the dark ages, when...