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  • 14 June 2022

    Facing the fear

    All conference speakers, regardless of, well anything really, share one thing in common. They all had to deliver their first talk. The first time they stood up in front of a group of people and imparted something. I cannot be more specific, because each and every one of those ex...

  • 13 June 2022

    The future works

    Keynote speaker and specialist in work-place innovation and optimisation, Rokker People’s Jim Marshall, spent some time talking to us about the future of work – providing us with real-world solutions rather than just abstractions. The nuts & bolts Having worked with the tech s...

  • 13 June 2022

    Let the games begin

    Senior software engineer and video game modder and archivist, Codie Stella knows a thing or two about raising the dead. No, we’re not discussing ghouls 👻, Codie Stella is a game resurrectionist. Passion for programming Codie Stella started making addons for Garry’s Mod in the...

  • 8 June 2022

    Escaping a paper bag

    When machine learning and AI specialist, Fran Buontempo, approached nor(DEV):22 with her conference speech title: ‘Coding your way out of a paper bag,’ we were puzzled. Was this some esoteric philosophical thesis, or would the keynote speech really explain how to code out of a p...

  • 31 May 2022

    Migrating toilets

    Developer at The Guardian and open source aficionado, Oliver Barnwell, has invested a fair amount of time in a unique project, the Great British Toilet Map. Billed as ‘the largest database of publicly accessible toilets’ in the UK - no one need ever get caught short again. Looki...

  • 29 May 2022

    Make The Dead Fish Swim - Test Driven Golang

    Today we are going to take a look at solving "Make The Dead Fish Swim" - A Codewars challenge ranked '6 kyu' and we are going to do it using Test Driven Development. First of all, let us look at the challenge we are going to tackle: Write a simple parser that will parse and ru...

  • 27 May 2022

    Driving culture change

    When Ben Frost first joined Bourne Leisure as Head of Product, he soon realised that getting users’ opinions was paramount. Bourne are the owners of Haven Holidays. Here he explains how he implemented a system that involved both users and devs. First discoveries Coming from th...

  • 23 May 2022

    Product Hunt Kitty comes to Norwich!

    _Norwich startup SupaPass launches on Product Hunt today, so this Kitty doesn’t need to lift a paw! _ Hey, I’m the Product Hunt Kitty. You may recognise me from the Golden Kitty Awards, won by innovators like Elon Musk. I love prowling around hunting tech products and mice, an...

  • 20 May 2022

    Talking Tech Educators

    Tech investor, Akcela founder and Conference sponsor, James Adams, is rapidly gaining an awesome reputation on the Norwich tech scene. We talked to James about Akcela’s latest startup, Tech Educators. Norwich has a lot of people with great ideas in terms of building a business b...

  • 18 May 2022

    Web Scraping static web pages in .Net Core

    Overview I was talking to a developer friend the other day about starting a little side project where you could keep track of the product prices on supermarket websites and trend them over time. This would allow a user to see what’s increasing in price at any given moment. Unfor...