Nor(DEV):con 2020
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Rap Battle | John Nicholson, Dom Davis | 01m |
It wasn't immediately obvious that the muzak was being piped into our Camera along with the microphone feeds. It has lead to some pretty amusing outtakes, this… | ||
| Pockkkittts | Dr. Gail Ollis | 02m |
Starts by using a photo exercise to prove a point: the sweater has fake pockets and a yellow shirt that draws attention but not function. Shows tiny sewn… | ||
| Introduction | Dom Davis | 07m |
Morning housekeeping and orientation for the venue with exact room locations (conference rooms, boardroom, training rooms), toilet locations including toilets… | ||
| Opening Keynote | Chris O'Dell | 43m |
Monzo treats the developer flow as a product: instrumenting pipelines but finding surveys and 30-minute interviews far more revealing than dashboards, then… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 1 - Part 3 - Mark Flanagan | Mark Flanagan | 28m |
A practical introduction to Blazor on WebAssembly that shows a working character builder built as a client-side C# app that downloads DLLs into the browser and… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 1 - Part 4 - Chris Sainty | Chris Sainty | 50m |
Shared .NET Standard models power a Blazor SPA using feature folders and replace plain HTML forms with EditForm and InputX components wired to DataAnnotations… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 1 - Part 5 - Jon Skeet | Jon Skeet | 36m |
Bought a TD‑series electronic drum module and builds a C# tool that talks over USB MIDI to load, edit and save the module’s configuration; app is a WPF UI… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Dr. Gail Ollis | 45m |
Argues that software needs equal attention to computering and humaning plus security, based on interviews with experienced developers and psychology research… | ||
| Introduction | Dom Davis | 09m |
Five-minute opening covers logistics and tone rather than technical content: VR racing sponsor stand with prizes, cake labeled vanilla (yellow pots) and… | ||
| Opening Keynote | Karen Poulter | 51m |
Personal stories and concrete tactics for handling change combine with a clear case study: separating 66 systems in 10 months to save £6 million. Introduces… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 - Day 2 - Part 3 - Jon Skeet | Jon Skeet | 38m |
Argues kindness in tech breaks into three actionable parts: empathy, valuing others, global impact. Gives concrete practices — label nitpicks in code reviews… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 2 - Part 4 - Charli Vince | Charli Vince | 36m |
Argues that confusing polished “art books” with working sketchbooks fuels imposter syndrome and gives concrete fixes: deliberately call it an art book when… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 2 - Part 5 - Dom Davis | Dom Davis | 40m |
Argues that source alone is insufficient and shows concrete fixes: runs a Go example where the linter rejects an exported function for missing a comment, the… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 2 - Part 6 - David Kinnen | David Kinnen | 48m |
National figures show only 10,400 A‑level entries in computer science versus 40,500 in maths and 62,000 in psychology, while specialist technical IT rises to… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 2 - Part 7 - Nicholas Walsh | Nicholas Walsh | 43m |
Surveys from Beamer and Harvey Nash find 66% report stress and 52% report anxiety or depression, five times the UK average, with neurodivergent staff… | ||
| NorDevCon2020 Day 2 - Part 8 - James Seconde | James Seconde | 34m |
Argues that tool shaming (mocking languages, frameworks or IDEs) damages hiring, retention and cross-team collaboration, with concrete examples: being told… | ||
| The IJYI Way | John Nicholson | 15m |
IJYI describes concrete bets that scale a small software shop into a 30-person consultancy: landing an early oil and gas simulator contract that becomes long… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Jennifer Wadella | 28m |
Kombucha brewing becomes a concrete metaphor: a Scoby (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) sits in sweet tea, whole fruit yields fizz while fruit juice… | ||
| Outro | Dom Davis | 06m |
Projector failures in multiple rooms cause a few technical restarts but the schedule still finishes; volunteers hand out gifts and manage doors, with specific… | ||
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