Paul Grenyer

The Oxford dictionary defines an apprentice as ‘a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer’. These days being an apprentice is so much more than that. Providing the perfect platform to earn as you learn whilst taking your first step on the career ladder, apprenticeships have never been more topical. There are many benefits to being an apprentice but we know that it can often be a daunting time too. You may be the only apprentice in an organisation, be the youngest member of the team and feel a lot less competent compared to colleagues with decades of experience in your field. East of England Apprentices is about bringing together apprentices, past, present and future, to share their experiences, advice and socialise with like minded folk who are at a similar stage in their chosen careers. Our quarterly meet ups are packed with networking opportunities, presentations and the chance to chat and swap stories. If you’re wondering whether an apprenticeship is for...

Naked Element are delighted to announce they will be sponsoring this years’ DevelopHER Awards . Committed to raising the profile of women in tech in East Anglia, the DevelopHER Awards will take place on the 25th November at The King's Centre in the heart of Norwich. One of Naked Element’s Directors, Paul Grenyer, reveals “we want to support the DevelopHER Awards because we’re passionate about supporting and promoting women in technology. We’ve been big supporters of award hosts SyncDevelopHER since before the group began and we want to continue to show our support in any way we can.” Paul adds that the awards’ organiser Vickie Allen “is doing great things for women in tech in Norwich and we acknowledge the issue of a gender imbalance in the industry and that women aren't as encouraged to go into the tech industry as they should be” He adds “whilst more women certainly do need to be encouraged to enter the industry, more people in general do, as it’s an industry that is...

I’ve been lucky enough to see Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Europe, Marillion and many other bands whose musicianship and vocal talent is perfection. Sometimes I wish that I hadn’t. I was on holiday with my parents in Richmond, North Yorkshire at the end of the 80s. I must have been about 12 and I had discovered radio. My parents had rented a little cottage just off the main square and every morning over breakfast the radio would be on. As they do, the radio station played many of the same songs from the current chart every day. One of them was The Look by Roxette . I loved it and the follow up, Dressed for Success. My friend at school had the album and another bought me the Joyride album when it came out a few years later. Then several years later I borrowed the third album from someone after a party. They’re a band I’ve always been into, even in their later, shamelessly even more poppy stages, and I’ve always wanted to see them. I thought they’d split up until I saw them advertis...

Do you ever have one of those days where it feels like you’ve wasted hours trying to get something to work that should be easy and it turns out you were just missing one vital piece of information and Google was holding out on you? You do? Me too! I had one of those days today. I’m currently reading ‘ Docker Up & Running ’ by Karl Matthias and Sean P. Kane. So far it’s fantastic and I’m hoping the rest of the book is as good. As with most introductory books it has instructions on how to install it’s subject, in this case Docker , on a few different platforms including Ubuntu. In fact the basic install is just three commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install docker.io sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/docker.io /usr/local/bin/docker The book then goes on to describe how to test Docker sing a Dockerfile and project which can be cloned from a Github repository. This is where everything fell apart for me. It didn’t just work out of the box. I even enlisted the help of my very good...

What: Micro Services Full Day Workshop When: Tuesday, July 28, 2015, 10:00am to 4:45pm Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH Price: £20.00/per person RSVP:   http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/222837405 / This full-day workshop will introduce the concepts and practices of designing and delivering applications composed of independently executing micro-services. By the end of the workshop, you will have developed a component of a larger application, using Docker at every step of the process from development and testing through to deployment in Amazon Web Services. Steve Engledow is head of software delivery for Proxama's cloud platform which is composed of services developed in a variety of languages but with a strong leaning towards Python. Intro: 1 hour Micro-services - what, why, and how? What are micro-services? Why split applications up into micro-services? How to break an application into in(ter)dependent co...