Paul Grenyer

When: Monday 2nd July @ 5.30pm Where: The Library Restuarant, 4A Guildhall Hill, Norwich NR2 1JH RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/251982755/ How the employer voice can influence technical & vocational training and apprenticeships in the digital and IT skills sector over the next 5 years. Jerry White - Deputy Principal at City College Norwich The Government’s agenda for the wider field of technical and vocational education alongside apprenticeships is changing. As a large FE College and apprenticeship provider we believe that employers are central to this process and our aim this evening is to start meaningful dialogue into how we can enable employers to both support and challenge us as we launch the new T Level curriculum and apprenticeship standards. We want to hear from you about the challenges you have in recruiting employees and how we can work together to fill the gap and make a difference to the next generation. The goal of the se...

When: 28 June 2018, 9am to 4.45pm Where: The Kings Centre, Kings Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH How much: £150 RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/250241910/ WordPress is the world’s best and most popular website builder and this hands-on course takes you through from the basics, including installation and set up, to cover all the most useful features and tools WordPress offers. Whether you already have a site and want to manage it properly or are starting completely from scratch, this is the course for you. You will learn to set up and run a great website of your own add content, images and videos add structure and navigation menus apply an attractive design using easy templates make the site search engine friendly add contact forms, maps and take payments add social networking and track visitorslearn to add all the features and functionality you need to run and develop a fantastic website and much, much more… How the course works ...

When: Wednesday, 20 June 20 - 9:00am to 4:45pm Where: Kings Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH How much: £85 RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/250343445/ If you would like to start using the worlds most popular PHP framework, this is the workshop for you. We will cover from installing Laravel to building a basic application. Everyone will learn along as we go from a freshly installed Laravel application up to creating a basic web app that interacts with a database. Course Details We will aim to cover the following (subject to change and class experience) Routing Using Blade (templating) Controllers Validation Config/Env Using Eloquent (database ORM) Laravel inbuilt Auth Artisan (CLI commands) File Storage Instructor Simon Bennett is a Software Consultant who works with Laravel daily, helping clients update there development practices and coding software for startups. He also runs his own SAAS for backing up DigitalOce...

TechNorwich: The End. A Story & New beginnings Whitespace is sadly now having to close. Started in 2013, it was the first and largest co-working space in Norwich. Its been home to many great & successful businesses, plus home to Barclays Eagle Labs and birthplace of TechVelocity, the first accelerator for the region. Come along to this event to have a drink to remember some of the history, catch up with some of the great businesses that have lived here and discuss on the future of the amazing digital creative & tech sector in our fine city. Get your ticket:  https://technorwich.eventbrite.co.uk

A Tour of Python Burkhard Kloss Wednesday, 6th June The Priory Centre, Priory Plain, Great Yarmouth Find out what makes Python so appealing! Burkhard will offer a brief tour of the Python language, and some of the features that make it so expressive, easy to use, and appealing in a wide range of fields. After that, he'll look at examples of Python usage in practice, from really small computers (micro:bits) to clouds, from database to web development, and data science to machine learning. Burhard Kloss I only came to England to walk the Pennine Way… 25 years later I still haven’t done it. I did, though, get round to starting an AI company (spectacularly unsuccessful), joining another startup long before it was cool, learning C++, and spending a lot of time on trading floors building systems for complex derivatives. Sometimes hands on, sometimes managing people. Somewhere along the way I realised you can do cool stuff quickly in Python, and I’ve never lost my fascination ...

Whatever else I do to earn a living, I am a software engineer at the core. Outside of work other things give me a reason to smile - heavy metal bands, science fiction books or my family - but when it comes to work, writing software is what gives me the biggest buzz. Even after 33 years! Recently I spent the weekend writing some software for a client. They have an app, which we built, that allows them to take photos and complete a questionnaire for installations so that they can record compliance. The software I wrote receives the photos and questionnaire responses from the app, generates a PDF document detailing the responses and attaches it to an email, along with the photos, to send to the client. Not a particularly exciting process most would agree. It’s a straightforward piece of software (despite the security concerns and image processing which took a little while to get just right) which delivers exactly what the client needs, but we wanted to be doubly sure. So, in the ea...

Join the Norwich tech community on Friday 27 July 2018 for a tasty BBQ to celebrate #NorfolkDay. SyncNorwich, Norfolk Developers and Hot Source have got together to organise a delicious BBQ at the lovely Unthank Arms pub. (Don’t worry, we’re leaving it to the professionals to do the cooking.) You will be able to enjoy your meal in the garden – or the covered courtyard (if you need shelter or shade). We look forward to seeing you for what is sure to be a fun evening from 18:00 to 22:00. There will be a paying bar. If your business would like to sponsor this event (particularly the drinks), please get in touch with the organisers. Tickets cost just £18.92 per person – including transaction fees – but excluding drinks. In return, you’ll be able to choose from the following freshly cooked BBQ food. Choose a main from either: Juicy homemade burger, Salmon parcels with lemon and herb butter, Archer’s award winning sausages, Lemon and thyme marinated chicken fillet, or Halloumi...