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Win one of five free NorDevCon tickets and help shape Norfolk Developers in 2016

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In 2016 we want to make Norfolk Developers more focussed around the needs of the community. Up to now both the regular evening events and the workshops have been based around what we thought would be interesting to you. Next year we’d like to know which topics you would like to hear about in the evenings and what you would like to learn in the workshops. We hope that you find Norfolk Developers workshops excellent value for money and teach valuable skills. We want to increase their value to the community by providing workshops that cover the skills needed by you and/or your business. Please help us by letting us know what skills you and/or your business will need in the next twelve months. If there is someone within your organisation who is better placed to answer this question, please send this survey to them as well. If you complete this survey you’ll put into a draw for one of five free NorDevCon tickets. What topics and speakers would you like to see at the regular Norfo...
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NorDevCon 2016 to Support The Curly Hair Project

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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD), which include Asperger’s Syndrome, have been at the centre of documentaries, an oscar winning movie starring Dustin Hoffman and a best selling novel that even went on to take Broadway and the West End by storm. But most research so far has focused on the male presentation, with the challenges facing females who are affected just starting to be explored. The curly hair project (CHP) is a social enterprise with worldwide appeal, dedicated to supporting females with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) and other autism spectrum disorders (ASD). NorDevCon 2016 will support The Curly Hair Project as its chosen good cause to help spread the word about this important project. Sam Ramsay, Associate Trainer at CHP reveals her hopes for what the exposure at the conference may mean for the project, “Firstly we’re delighted to have been invited to be a part of NorDevCon. We hope that we are able to use this forum to raise awareness in the technology industry of the chall...
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Learning Node.js with Richard Astbury Part 2a: Going solo with Bootstrap

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In Part 2 Richard Astbury showed me how to add Hogan to the web app and use a template for all the views in the app. Between us we also added Bootstrap to the app. One of the advantages of a template is that you can have a common navigation bar on every view in your app and one of the advantages of Bootstrap is that it has a ready made ‘navbar’. To add the navbar to the app, I copied and pasted the sample from the Bootstrap website and refreshed the browser: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title> {{title}} </title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css"></style> <link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css"> ...
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Learning Node.js with Richard Astbury Part 2: Serving Angle Brackets

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In part 1, ‘ Learning node.js with Richard Astbury ’ I followed Richard 's instructions to create my own node.js web application using Express . Next Richard wrote a blog post with instructions on how to serve static pages and create a template to be used for all pages in the web application. First Richard describes how to configure Express to serve static web pages from a public directory in the root of the application: // load the path package var path = require('path'); // load the express package var express = require('express'); // create an express application  var app = express(); // register middleware to serve static pages app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public'))); // handle GET requests at / app.get('/', function(req, res){   // respond with plain text   res.send('hello world'); }); // start listening on Heroku port or port 8080 app.listen(process.env.PORT || 8080); and then how to create th...
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Learning Node.js with Richard Astbury

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I recently found myself a little side project which I decided I wanted to implement using Node.js . Although I did the Norfolk Developer’s Node.js workshop, it was quite a while ago and I don’t really remember much of it, so I asked Richard Astbury if he’d help me. Richard agreed and is writing a series of blog posts to help me learn. The first one explains how to create a Node.js project which uses the Express web framework. Below is my account of how I got on. Richard’s instructions start from the point at which Node.js is installed. He then took me through creating a new directory for the application and installing Express: mkdir nakedlogs cd nakedlogs npm install express npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/express ... express@4.13.3 node_modules/express ├── escape-html@1.0.2 ├── merge-descriptors@1.0.0 ├── array-flatten@1.1.1 ├── cookie@0.1.3 ├── utils-merge@1.0.0 ├── cookie-signature@1.0.6 ├── methods@1.1.1 ├── path-to-regexp@0.1.7 ├── range-parser@1.0...
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NorDev Event: Agile on the Bench (September)

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When: Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 12:30pm to 1:30pm Where : Band Stand - Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich Sign-up:   http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/225066351/ Agile on the bench is a lunchtime "stand-up" session with ad-hoc content provided by attendees. Each talk is 5 minutes. Please let us know if you would like to come and give a talk: nordev@nakedelement.co.uk . Speakers so far include: Tom Price (Proxama)  Lisa Donovan (Aviva)  Rupert Redington (Neontribe) Matt Osborne (Liftshare)  Williams Gareth (Validus) You can read about the first Agile on the Bench in Norwich here .
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