Hi All

It’s NorDev this week on Wednesday from 6.15pm at the King's Centre with IBM Bluemix and CoreOS. There will also be free burgers and drinks. Full details are below and you can RSVP here.

July see’s the return of both the AngularJS Beginners full day workshop on Thursday 16th of July and the AngularJS Advanced/Internals full day workshop on Friday 17th of July. Places on both workshops are starting to fill up already and full details are below. Click the links to RSVP.

Don’t forget that the next Norwich Tech Lunch at All Bar One is on Wednesday 17th June at 12.30pm and you can RSVP here. Watch out for a NorDev breakfast meetup complete with speaker coming soon!

Tim Ruffles is keen to come and do a D3.js workshop with us. Please help us decide by voting in our poll.

We know there have been a lot of emails recently. Thank you for bearing with us. We are actively trying to reduce the number of emails that are sent, but recently we’ve had a lot to tell you about.

We look forward to seeing you all very soon.

Thanks

Paul & Emily

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What: Bluemix, a Platform for Digital Transformation and An Introduction to CoreOS

When: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 @ 6:15pm to 8:45pm

Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/222366789/

There will be Free burgers courtesy of IBM, and the usual free drinks!

6.15pm - Free Food and Drink
7.00pm - Introduction
7.10pm - Bluemix, a Platform for digital Transformation
7.55pm - Break
8.10pm - An Introduction to CoreOS
8.55pm - End

Bluemix, a Platform for digital Transformation
Sukhvinder (@saujla)

In this session, Sukhvinder will describe and show the IBM BlueMix platform, demonstrating how it fits into an innovative organisation and how its DevOps approach leads to quicker time to deployment. Bluemix is IBM’s Digital Innovation Platform to enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks.

Attendees can download a free 30 day trial of Bluemix from this link: http://bit.ly/BluemixTrial

Sukhvinder has worked in the software industry for over 25 years in roles including software development, design and architecture. He is now helping organisations take a business outcome focused view of Cloud, including using it as a platform for digital transformation. He is a firm believer in the transformative approach of the API economy and Mobile devices.

An Introduction to CoreOS
Dom Davis (@idomdavis)

Docker, containers and immutable infrastructure seem to be the buzzwords of the day, but while it’s easy to get immutable infrastructure in Docker it’s not always so easy with the infrastructure that runs the infrastructure. Enter CoreOS, a simple, relatively lightweight Linux implementation designed out of the box to run containers as distributed infrastructure. In this talk we’ll be having a brief look at what CoreOS is, why it’s needed, and some of the things you can do with it.

Dom Davis is a veteran of The City and a casualty of The Financial Crisis. Not content with bringing the world to its knees he then went off to help break the internet before winding up in Norfolk where he is now a technology evangelist for a small startup. Dom is an enthusiastic and impassioned speaker [read: he gabbles] who uses a blend of irreverent sarcasm and flippant humour to bring complex technical subjects to a broad audience. Whether or not they understand him is up for debate, but he likes to believe they do.

What: Angular JS Full Day Hands on Beginners Workshop

When: Thursday, July 16, 2015 @ 10:00am to 5.30pm

Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH

Price: £55.00/person

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/222686752/

The workshop will start promptly at 10am, so please arrive in good time. There will be a break of an hour for lunch at about 1pm.

A laptop and a good working knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is required.

AngularJS in a day

AngularJS is big news: though newer than Backbone or Ember, it is already hugely more popular. Its secret is the huge productivity of its UI primitives. For example: why reinvent wheels to make a live updating list or grid when you can declaratively repeat, filter and edit with Angular's simple extensions to HTML?

In this session we'll learn the core of AngularJS, demystify some of its rough edges, and peek behind the scenes to understand how it all works. We'll then build up a full single-page web application so you are ready to start applying Angular to your own projects.

What: Angular JS Full Day Hands on Advanced/Internals Workshop

When: Friday, July 17, 2015 @ 10:00am to 4:30pm

Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH

Price: £55.00/per person

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/222686809/

Level: Advanced

The workshop will start promptly at 10am, so please arrive in good time. There will be a break of an hour for lunch at about 1pm.

A laptop is required.

Angular.JS is a modern MVC JavaScript framework with data binding and focus on testing and testability of rich client side applications. This one day course will take your existing AngularJS skills to the next level, providing a deep understanding of how to get the most out of the framework.

• Animations
• Data binding in depth
• Scopes in detail - data binding implementation, emit/broadcast, usage notes
• Application structure
• Writing directives - link, compile, scope isolation, designing directive APIs
• Testing directives
• Mocking, stubbing in tests
• E2E testing
• Deployment
• Module loaders
• i18n
• Integrating other code with Angular - d3

Tim Ruffles (@timruffles)

Tim is the founder of SidekickJS, a code-quality tracker for teams. He teaches & mentors developers for General Assembly and EventHandler. Previously he was front-end tech-lead for Skimlinks and Picklive. He talks about Javascript at conferences and events.