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...

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...

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...

_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...

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...

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...

Educator Mary-Jo Hill explains how YakBit can revolutionise workplace inclusion ahead of her conference speech. Having taught in education for 25 years and worked as an advisor, and then later as a leadership coach. Mary-Jo realised that many in the classroom have difficulty in...

Having got into coding recently there have certainly been some surprises for me. Some of it had stemmed from how the code works Vs how I expected it to work. Some things seem counterintuitive until I dive and delve further into the why as well as the what and then it makes sens...

Below are my current thoughts and feelings regarding development as a career. I wanted to share them publicly because I feel like it is important to show that even though I have been a developer for a few years now, it is entirely normal to feel a little deflated or burnt out. ...

Ahead of her conference speech, Katie Fisher, senior experience strategist at Norwich based, The User Story, talked to us about the importance of UX. Evidence and psychology UX is psychology driven. Katie clarifies how user experience or rather, user experience research, is ab...