Skip to main content

NorDevCon 2016: Bigger and better than ever before!

By
NorDevCon 2016 is bigger and better than ever before and here is why …
Thursday 25th February 2016
We have some amazing pre-conference workshops for you to participate to get you in the mood for Nor(DEV):con on the 26th.  An Exploration of Symbiotic Design Practice from Michael Feathers, Taste of Chef on Azure from Chef.io and Android workshop: From Zero to Hero delivered by Paul Lammertsma.
Afterwards there is even more Nor(DEV):con appetizers in the form of Letitia Fearon’s Observe, assume and experiment and Ashwini Laxminarayana Fun & Games with Git & Jenkins who will be giving us a pre-conference special each at the King's Centre which kicks off at the earlier time of 5.30pm and is followed by our pre-conference dinner which this year will be held at the Library Restaurant. To attend the pre-conference special and the dinner please RSVP via norfolkdevelopers.com.

Friday 26th February 2016
We’ve Keynotes from the fantastic Michael Feathers who is coming all the way from Florida to open with Feature Orthogonality and Health In Large Code Bases for us and we’ve got the wonderful Jon Jagger to close the Friday of the conference with Pair Programming.
We have TechStars Jon Bradford talking about Silicon Broad: Bridges not Valleys, Rainbird’s Dom Davis telling us how to Fake it until you make it, Lisa Price asking us Are you a code Monkey or Agile Junkie? and of course, Nor(DEV):con wouldn’t be complete without Jon Skeet who will be telling us all about the Changing state of immutability in C#.

With all of this as well as workshops on the day from RedHat, Letitia and Neon Tribe, technical sessions from Pete Goodliffe, James Taylor and Darren Cook. Agile Sessions from Seb Rose, Christos Matskas and Unruly's Rachel Davis and Lewis Moore and business sessions from Ermine Amies, James Tarling and Matthew Draycott plus many more.
In the lunch break there will be a buffet and we’ll be having a bit of fun by having a tech version of Radio 4’s Just a Minute hosted by Huw Sayer.
As always there is a wine reception sponsored by the Wine and Business Club that follows the conference closing keynote and this has already sold out, but there is also a conference dinner at the King's Centre where you can talk to your favourite speakers and have a few glasses of wine and a 3 course meal all for £35.

Saturday 27th February 2016
Richard Astbury will be opening with his keynote on The State of Art which will be a great start for our first Saturday Nor(DEV):con. Dom Davis will be back for us with Agile Smagile as will Paul Lammertsma with his Android session on Wears the Party, we have Tjelvar Olsson Saving the World One Image at a Time and a Machine Learning workshop given by Burkhard Kloss.


See the full agenda here: http://www.nordevcon.com/agenda/
We also have some sponsorship opportunities remaining: http://www.nordevcon.com/sponsorship/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Write Your Own Load Balancer: A worked Example

By
I was out walking with a techie friend of mine I’d not seen for a while and he asked me if I’d written anything recently. I hadn’t, other than an article on data sharing a few months before and I realised I was missing it. Well, not the writing itself, but the end result. In the last few weeks, another friend of mine, John Cricket , has been setting weekly code challenges via linkedin and his new website, https://codingchallenges.fyi/ . They were all quite interesting, but one in particular on writing load balancers appealed, so I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone and write up a worked example. You’ll find my worked example below. The challenge itself is italics and voice is that of John Crickets. The Coding Challenge https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/challenge-load-balancer/ Write Your Own Load Balancer This challenge is to build your own application layer load balancer. A load balancer sits in front of a group of servers and routes client requests across all of the serv
Post a Comment
Read more

Catalina-Ant for Tomcat 7

By
I recently upgraded from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 7 and all of my Ant deployment scripts stopped working. I eventually worked out why and made the necessary changes, but there doesn’t seem to be a complete description of how to use Catalina-Ant for Tomcat 7 on the web so I thought I'd write one. To start with, make sure Tomcat manager is configured for use by Catalina-Ant. Make sure that manager-script is included in the roles for one of the users in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml . For example: <tomcat-users> <user name="admin" password="s3cr£t" roles="manager-gui, manager-script "/> </tomcat-users> Catalina-Ant for Tomcat 6 was encapsulated within a single JAR file. Catalina-Ant for Tomcat 7 requires four JAR files. One from TOMCAT_HOME/bin : tomcat-juli.jar and three from TOMCAT_HOME/lib: catalina-ant.jar tomcat-coyote.jar tomcat-util.jar There are at least three ways of making the JARs available to Ant: Copy the JARs into th
22 comments
Read more

Bloodstock 2009

By
This year was one of the best Bloodstock s ever, which surprised me as the line up didn't look too strong. I haven't come away with a list of bands I want to buy all the albums of, but I did enjoy a lot of the performances. Insomnium[6] sound a lot like Swallow the Sun and Paradise Lost. They put on a very good show. I find a lot of old thrash bands quite boring, but Sodom[5] were quite good. They could have done with a second guitarist and the bass broke in the first song and it seemed to take ages to get it fixed. Saxon[8] gave us some some classic traditional heavy metal. Solid, as expected. The best bit was, following the guitarist standing on a monitor, Biff Bifford ripped off the sign saying "DO NOT STAND" and showed it to the audience. Once their sound was sorted, Arch Enemy[10] stole the show. They turned out not only to be the best band of the day, but of the festival, but then that's what you'd expect from Arch Enemy. Carcass[4] were very disappoin
1 comment
Read more