Paul Grenyer

What: NorDev West Norfolk: Space, the final frontier & Designing for room scale VR When: Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 6:30pm to 9:30pm Where: Heacham Manor Hotel, Hunstanton Road, PE31 7JX How much: FREE RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/230069172/ Norfolk Developers are trying a number of meetups outside of Norwich. Come along and find out more about NorDev at our first West Norfolk meetup ! Space, the final frontier  Dom Davis ( @idomdavis ) So we can send a spaceship 4.6 billion kilometres to rendezvous with something that's only a few kilometres big, but we still can't strip spaces from telephone numbers. In a world where computers can beat humans at Go there are still some fundamentals we can't seem to get right. In this talk we're going to look at a few of these and ask "why are they so hard?" Dom Davis Dom Davis is a veteran of The City and a casualty of The Financial Crisis. Not content with bringing ...

Everyone knows the monthly  Norfolk Developer  meets attract speakers from around the country to talk tech to us, but we were reminded recently that we also have a more practical function. To bring like-minded programmers together. One such successful collaboration began in March last year between John Heaser of Responsive Systems and freelance mobile developer Neil Sedger. The conversation they had resulted in a wildlife tracking app, which has recently been published on the Apple App Store and Google Play. John posted in the NorDev Meet-up group that he was looking for help with a Cordova phone app and then decided to attend a meet-up himself. “I went along to my first NorDev meeting on 25th March 2015 and during the pre-meeting beer I overheard Neil talking about Cordova – so I asked him if he was interested in working on the project and he said yes, he had some time available, so I was very lucky! There are five of us working at Responsive Systems and whilst we have g...

When: Thursday, May 12th, 6.30pm to 9.30pm. Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich NR1 1PH RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/229344509/ Cross platform mobile development with the power of Xamarin Are you a .NET developer? Do you develop for mobile platforms or would you like to get started but you don’t know how or where? Then you should join Christos Matskas as he shows you how to get off the ground with mobile application development using the power of Xamarin and explains how to build powerful, full-featured, native applications that can run across all platforms. You will learn how to speed up your development cycle, reduce overhead costs and create “the one codebase to rule them all”. Introduction to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud. With over 60 service to choose from, Microsoft's open source cloud platform is enabling developers and companie...

I'm sitting writing this in the Legoland Hotel in Billund, Denmark after a full day in the Legoland park with my wife and all three of my boys (4, 5 & 13). The park is closed and it's a few hours before our flight. If you're thinking to yourself, Paul don't you know there's a Legoland in England just outside of London, then you wouldn't be the first. We've been there and it was ok, but it's not as good as the real thing and wouldn't have given us the opportunity to take the younger two on a plane for the first time and to a different country (which isn't Wales). Of course there are other ways to achieve this, but as we learnt when we took our eldest to Munich a few years ago, city breaks and kids often don't mix. There are two main reasons that Legoland in Denmark is better. Everyone, without exception who works in the park and the hotel, has been friendly and enthusiastic - everyone. They've all played with our kids and there i...