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Norfolk Developers: Reactive Game Development & AngularJS 101

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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 and they seem to be getting by just fine without it.

Except we aren’t. We’ve been living in callback hell for almost two decades now, and no matter how many control flow libraries we submit to npm, things don’t seem to be getting any better. And that’s where functional programming comes in—turns out callbacks are just functions, and those academics in their ivory towers with their Haskell compilers actually encountered and solved these problems long ago. And now we can have their solutions in JS too, because of functional reactive programming. To demonstrate, I’ll attempt to write a browser based game, from scratch, with ponies, using RxJS, everybody’s favourite reactive library, live on stage in 30 minutes with no callback hell in sight. And we’ll be finding out if this reactive stuff is all it’s cracked up to be or not.

Bodil Stokke

Bodil is a compulsive conference speaker in the fields of functional programming and internets technologies, and is a co-organiser of multiple developer conferences in Scandinavia and the UK, mostly because she’s still learning how to stop. She is a prolific contributor to the Free Software community, and has recently taken up designing new programming languages as a hobby. In her spare time, she works as a developer for Future Ad Labs, a London based startup that wants to make advertising a productive member of society. Her favourite pony is Pinkie Pie.


AngularJS 101 
Frank Reding (@Mottokrosh)

In this session, front-end aficionado Frank will give you an introduction to the immensely popular AngularJS Javascript framework developed by Google. We'll look at declarative markup, expressions, directives (Angular's name for custom elements), testing, and how to quickly and neatly hook your app with with RESTful backend services. We'll also touch on command line generators, dependency management and build tools.

Frank Reding

Frank is a senior front-end developer at Neontribe (they of the pulp prototyping fame), where he constantly seeks to eek out extra performance from web apps masquerading as native mobile apps. Unless he gets distracted by modern PHP frameworks, or new design tools.


Food & Drink Sponsored by: Anglia IT

Anglia IT Recruitment specialise in permanent IT careers in the East Anglia region covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex.  




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