Paul Grenyer

What:  Reactive Game Development & AngularJS 101 When: Wednesday 2nd July @ 6.30pm Where:  The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH RSVP:   http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/183266442/ This meetup includes free hotdogs, burgers (vegetarian option available), beer and soft drinks for all courtesy of Anglia IT Recruitment . Reactive Game Development For The Discerning Hipster  Bodil Stokke ( @bodil ) To most people in JS, functional programmers are perceived as academic hipsters raving about things like applicative functors, semigroup homomorphisms and Yoneda lemmas for no good reason except to make the rest of us feel stupid. And this is fair; there’s no better way to make you feel pitifully mainstream than throwing category theory at you. Conversely, JS programmers tend to believe functional programming, therefore, can have no real world application because nobody in the real world has any idea what a Yoneda lemma is an...

What:  MobDevCon Lite: Paul Lammertsma, Google Cast & Matteo Manferdini, iOS toolbox When: Wednesday 9th July @ 6.30pm Where:  Whitespace, 2nd Floor, St James' Mill, Whitefriars, Norwich, NR3 1TN RSVP:   http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/191805352/ We had to cancel MobDevCon , but all is not lost! We're running a MobDevCon Lite as part of Norfolk Developers with keynote speaker Paul Lammertsma and Matteo Manferdini. We're holding MobDevCon Lite at Whitespace at St. James' Mill. Places are limited to 30 so be quick! Google Cast Paul is CTO and co-founder of Pixplicity, Holland’s leading Android- specific consulting and app-building company. He applies his knowledge of Java, Android and Linux in Pixplicity to develop high-quality apps and provide technical solutions for customers such as Mercedes-Benz, Parkmobile, Nestlé, De Telegraaf and De Consumentenbond. Google recently launched Google Cast, a technology that enables de...

By Alastair Reynolds ISBN: 978-1849904193 When I was a boy I loved Dr. Who and Blake's 7. When I was at University, in around 1997, they used to show Dr. Who and Blake’s on UK Gold on a Sunday morning. While Blake’s 7 still had me totally captivated, Dr. Who didn’t live up to my memories. Of course I grew up with Tom Baker, Peter Davidson, Colin Baker (who I barely remembered at all at the time) and Sylvester McCoy. In my mind the illusion was complete, but watching them again aged around 20 I saw straight through the special effects and the memories were somewhat shattered. So I approached the Harvest of Time with a little apprehension. As with everything Alastair Reynolds writes, the story is excellent. However, I don’t think the Dr. Who universe gave it anything and it would have been much better as a straight time travel and invasion novel. The Sild are a very Dr. Who type enemy and I didn’t really believe in them. Of course The Master was a superb character and I didn’...

Tickets on sale now! Following on from the huge success of last year’s sold out conference, MobDevCon is back by popular demand! We’ve combined the successes of last year’s conference with the fantastic reviews and feedback we received to bring you an impressive programme that will take a look at what’s new in the ever changing world of mobile technology. The programme is centred around the changes in the mobile market, trends innovations and keynote speaker, Mike Spradbery will be discussing everything from wearables to compossable apps and healthcare mobile innovations to hardware capabilities. He will also be addressing the implications of new technologies on enterprise architecture and explore how organisations can build flexibility into their mobile strategies. Ruth John from mobile giant O2 will also have the title of keynote speaker at the conference. Ruth will be talking about the browser, its emerging technologies and how much mobile technology has changed the di...

It’s been a long time since I’ve been to SyncNorwich . This is partly because I’m busier these days, partly because there’s only so many maps I can take, and partly because I’ve been contributing to other groups such as NRUG and NorDev . However, I’m incredibly glad that I came, with 22 other people, to SyncNorwich tonight because Harry and Rupert were amazing. But more about them in a moment. As usual, I looked around at the other people attending. Back in the early days of SyncNorwich, I recognised and could name 80% or 90% of the people who attended (that’s good coverage in any developers book!). Not so many now. Alright, I haven’t been to SyncNorwich for a long time, but the point is that less than 20% of the people attending tonight attended SyncNorwich when it first started. W hat’s happened to all the people who used to attend, but aren’t attending now? SyncNorwich crowds have reduced by about 60% compared to in the past, but their membership has rocketed. The tech...