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Norfolk Developers March 2016 Update

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The first bit of good news is that the JavaScript workshop was a huge success and you can read more about it and some of the future plans for Norfolk Developers here: http://paulgrenyer.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/javascripting-across-universe.html
Another piece of good news is that the NorfolK Developers breakfast with John Beer of the Centre for Advanced Knowledge Engineering on Wednesday is sold out. We’re currently lining up the June breakfast to feature Nigel Lubbock of Steeles Law who will be talking about software licensing. We’ll announce the meetup once it’s confirmed and you can RSVP.
April
On April 13th we have Ian Massingham of AWS coming to give his presentation on ‘Building Serverless Applications with AWS’, which he was unable to give at the conference. He will be speaking alongside Tom Morgan of Modality Systems who will be talking about his first Hackathon experience. You can RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/229484964/
May
We’re currently planning a special Norfolk Developers event in West Norfolk which we hope will be on Wednesday 11th of May. More details as we get them.
On Thursday May 12th Christos Matskas, another popular NorDevCon speaker, is doing a double header on ‘Cross platform mobile development with the power of Xamarin’ & ‘Introduction to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform’. You can RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/229484964/
June
We’re still planning our main June event, but the rest of June will be full of workshops as well as the Norfolk Developers breakfast mentioned above.
On the 15th of June Rupert Redington will be giving his updated and improved beginners JavaScript workshop. You can RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/229713572/
The immensely popular Tim Ruffles will be returning on the 20th and 21st of June for a two day workshop on AngularJS 2. You can RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/229709161/
Phil Nash will be giving a long awaited Switft (iOS) two day workshop on the 29th and 30th of June. Details to follow. You can RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/229709196/
July
In July we’re hoping Steve Engledow will be able to give his postponed talk on What you need to know about Email.
August
In August we’re hoping to do an Agile event with food.
Steve Jones - Devops Survey
Please take a look at and complete Steve Jones’ survey on DevOps: https://t.co/CDh8s87GE6
Kaloyan Vylchev - Internship required
Kaloyan Vylchev is looking for internships in any IT sphere. He would like to develop in programming (object oriented) but for the moment feel he lacks experience. He has basic knowledge of programming, but has never done any serious project work. Kaloyan is studying Applied Computer Science at UAE and got hooked on JavaScript after the recent Norfolk Developers workshop.




If you can help Kaloyan, please drop him a line: kaloyan.vylchev@gmail.com.
Alex Adams - New contract required
Alex Adams is looking for full-stack web development contract. JS frontend with either PHP, C# or JS backend. DB either SQL server, MySQL or MariaDB. He’s looking to build his skills so exposure to AngularJS and React would be nice. More C# or some Node would be nice too. As would Agile. Open to getting on with MongoDB or Postgres as well.
Alex is available to start from 12th April onwards: alex@jujudigital.com
Xamarin Experience Required
Alex Adams has a contact looking for someone with the following Xamarin experience:
  • Experience in Xamarin.Forms (not just Xamarin.ios or Xamarin.Android).
  • XAML experience to create UI elements.
  • Portable Class Library with JSON request/response serialization.
  • Experience in handling Photo/Video uploads.
  • Exposure to image maps needing various portions of an image to be selectable.
You can contact Adam here: alex@jujudigital.com



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