Paul Grenyer

What: NorDevCon 2015 Pre-conference Dinner at All Bar One When: Thursday, February 26th @ 7:30pm Where: All bar One, 29, Tombland / 1 Upper King St, NR3 1RE Price: £11.00 RSVP:   http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/217755712/ This year the pre-conference dinner will be at All Bar One (a short walk from the Kings Centre) at 7.30pm. All are welcome and the fixed price menu is here: View the menu. When you RSVP you'll need to pay £11 for the meal and then for your drinks on the night. Please specify a starter, main meal and desert when you RSVP. Please attend the pre-conference special with Allan Kelly and Kevlin Henney and then come along for dinner.

What : Pre-conference Special with Kevlin Henney and Allan Kelly. When: Thursday, February 26th @ 5:00pm to 7:00pm Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH RSVP : http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/217753712/ FREE BEER! 5.00pm - Free beer 5.30pm - Introduction, Paul Grenyer 5.40pm - Every business is a software business, Allan Kelly 6.10pm - More free beer 6.25pm - The Rule of Three, Kevlin Henney 7.00pm - Finish To kick off this years NorDevCon we will be having a pre-conference special hosted at the wonderful Kings Centre in Norwich with Allan Kelly and Kevlin Henney followed by the pre-conference dinner. Please RSVP for the dinner separately. There will also be free beer, cidre, wine and soft drinks. The Rule of Three  Kevlin Henney ( @KevlinHenney ) The three-act play, the given–when–then BDD triptych, the three steps of the Feynman problem solving algorithm... a surprising number of things appear to come in t

On Thursday 29th January I was invited onto Norwich Today on Future Radio to talk about NorDevCon and tech generally in Norwich. They were kind enough to make it into podcast and you can listen to it below. Paul Grenyer, director of Naked Element chats to Richard Maun and Amy Smith. by Futureradio on Mixcloud

Nor(DEV):con is now less than three weeks away and with over 240 delegates its going to be bigger than ever before! Early bird tickets are on sale until 6pm on Friday! We have a couple of last minute announcements to make. Rodric Yates of IBM will be taking our last speaker slot. Unfortunately Stephen Flowers isn't able to join us this year but we have Ben Nuttall from the Raspberry Pi foundation taking his slot. The Mind Shift to Enterprise Mobile Rodric Yates Driving a business by putting mobile at the centre of your strategy, focussing on design, realising repeatable and rapid time to value whilst maintaining secure and robust access to back end transactional systems. Working with the wider ecosystem of citizens, consumers, design agencies, vendors, VC and academia to delight and surprise. About Rodric: Professor Rodric Yates is Mobility Business Development Leader at IBM United Kingdom and Ireland, leading a team of subject matter experts across Software and S

As well as Valentine’s Day, February hosts Groundhog Day, Thank a MailMan Day, Friday the 13th and most exciting of all - this year’s NorDevCon Conference hosts, Naked Element are please to bring you a series of hands-on workshops to make sure you gain as much as possible from the conference and go away confident that you’re able to implement all the techie tips and techniques you’ll learn throughout the day. Continuous Inspection Jason Gorman Jason Gorman, chair for the Software Craftsmanship conference in the UK as well as a seasoned conference contributor, has worked for some of the biggest names around. In this session Jason looks at continuously delivery and maintains that it’s not sustainable without Clean Code. Jason discusses how continuous Inspection is the missing discipline in Continuous Delivery and participants will learn how to implement Continuous Inspection using readily available off-the-shelf tools like Checkstyle, Simian, Emma, Java/NDepend and Sonar,

NorDevCon 2015 means business. Literally! This year we’ve added some business sessions to the conference to make sure that there really is something for everyone. Whether you’re an agile addict, a .Net aficionado or a techno-phobe, this year’s conference will benefit anyone that works in a business that uses technology, which let’s face it, these days is nearly every business operating today. Mobile Commerce: Past, Present, THE Future Neil Garner Mobile Commerce has come a long way from basic automated voice and text messaging services in the late 90s, through basic WAP services on feature phones in late 00s through sophisticated shopping apps of today. Mobile Commerce is still at early stages of evolution in western economies like the UK despite many emerging countries like Kenya using services like m-Pesa instead of cash. What will the future bring? Growth of Proximity Commerce linking digital with physical wallets… wearables… Biometrics and authentication… death of App