Food Safe System: Architecture of a Start-Up

Food Safe System: Architecture of a Start-Up

By jonnyJan 20, 2021
Newry Digital are delighted to have one of our co-founders Jonny McCullagh join us to chat about the current version of Food Safe System, development of which began shortly before the Covid19 pandemic. In this talk Jonny McCullagh will describe how this Internet of Things service is organised; touching on the interesting tools, languages and integrations used. Health Warning: Frequent mentions of PHP!
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Coding Kata Meetup

Coding Kata Meetup

By jonnyOct 22, 2018
The October 2018 meetup was held in Finnegan & Son in Newry.  Organiser Joe McKevitt guided attendees through exercises in refactoring legacy could with a test-driven development approach. Links Introduction into http://www.cyber-dojo.org Session id - 4bPhxc Teams used on the night - join team , lion, zebra, buffalo, rabbit, eagle, kingfisher Speed car Kata - TirePressureMonitoringSystem exercise https://github.com/emilybache/Racing-Car-Katas Article explaining the merit of TDD, refactoring and good design principles (including sample solutions for the speed car kata) https://github.com/lucaminudel/TDDwithMockObjectsAndDesignPrinciples Good examples of other submissions https://github.com/trikitrok/tire_pressure_monitoring_system_20160505/tree/master/src/main/java/tddmicroexercises/tirepressuremonitoringsystem Usage of builders (Test builders) https://github.com/trikitrok/tire_pressure_monitoring_system_20160505/blob/live_version_magento_20160505/src/test/java/tddmicroexercises/tirepressuremonitoringsystem/tests/helpers/AlarmBuilder.java Links/References on Test driven development (TDD) TDD does not drive…
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Innovation Nation: Newry 2018

Innovation Nation: Newry 2018

By jonnySep 26, 2018
The inaugural Innovation Nation: Newry 2018 is taking place in Newry Town Hall on Thursday 27th September. The organisers have kindly offered a small number of complimentary tickets to members of the Newry Digital network. If you would like to avail of this opportunity please contact us and we will forward your information to the organisers for registration. Tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so don't delay! More information about the event is available here: https://nmdinnovationnation.com/ Regards, The Newry Digital Team
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Cybersecurity Meetup

Cybersecurity Meetup

By jonnyAug 31, 2018
The July meetup was held in the original co-working space in Newry - The Hub. Suzanne & Paddy welcomed us on the 26th July as we heard from Peter McCaul about local startup Péarlí who operate a retail loyalty fob service in several shopping centres and are beginning to expand. Péarlí share office space with another local tech company - FieldMotion - who produce software to support field services staff. So for the August meetup on Cyber Security we were invited to the Field Motion / Péarlí offices. During the CyberSecurity meetup Jonny McCullagh demonstrated manual techniques used in cyber…
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Blockchain Meetup

Blockchain Meetup

By jonnyJun 27, 2018
Almost 30 people joined us in the air-conditioned surroundings of Newry's latest co-working space: Flexiwork.space Garrett of Flexiwork.space welcomed the audience with pizza, beer and soft drinks into the cool surroundings of a space that is sure to attract freelancers and home workers who want to mingle with other creatives.   The theme for the evening meetup was blockchain and the main speaker was Eamonn Hynes who has been working with blockchain technologies for several years and writes articles on Ethereum. Eamonn briefly described the evolution of Distributed Ledger Technologies including BitCoin, Ethereum and the more recent developments of HashGraph.…
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Internet of Things Meetup

Internet of Things Meetup

By jonnyMay 25, 2018
Newry Digital Meetup held an IoT meetup on Tuesday in conjunction with DigitalNMD (Newry, Mourne, Down District Council), Southern Regional College and South-Eastern Regional College. Michael Forster started proceedings explaining the local council's DigitalNMD programme to support local business in the use of emerging technology such as drones and VR. Martin Naughtan then took the podium explain the radio frequencies available for IoT devices which center on the 868 Mhz frequency. Martin spoke about the LoRaWAN network that can be used at no charge to registered users. He passed around several IoT devices used for prototyping including the FiPy. Following…
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Internet of Things Meetup Newry

Internet of Things Meetup Newry

By jonnyMay 24, 2018
Newry Digital Meetup held an IoT meetup on Tuesday in conjunction with DigitalNMD (Newry, Mourne, Down District Council), Southern Regional College and South-Eastern Regional College. Michael Forster started proceedings explaining the local council's DigitalNMD programme to support local business in the use of emerging technology such as drones and VR. Martin Naughtan then took the podium explain the radio frequencies available for IoT devices which center on the 868 Mhz frequency. Martin spoke about the LoRaWAN network that can be used at no charge to registered users. He passed around several IoT devices used for prototyping. Following Martin's talk we…
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Internet of Things Meetup

Internet of Things Meetup

By jonnyMay 04, 2018
The next Newry Digital Meetup will be on 22nd May 2018 with Martin Naughtan speaking about IoT hot on the heels of the launch of Things Connected at Belfast City Hall on 9th May. Originally from Galway Martin is the organiser of the IoT meetup group in Belfast. I'm looking forward to hearing Martin's experiences as I have been dabbling with my own IoT project using a Mkr Fox 1200 board to connect to the Sigfox network. The aim is to send messages every 20 minutes with water quality readings from a turbidity sensor. The title of Martin's talk is…
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Clean Code Meetup

Clean Code Meetup

By jonnyMay 04, 2018
The May meetup was help in Newry Library with Chris McCabe of Pearlai presenting his talk on 'Clean Code' using PHP examples. Chris is planning on giving the same talk at the NI Developer Conference to be held in June. Jonny followed that up with a lightning talk about the Dark Web. Plans are to hold a meetup again towards the end of May on the topic of 'Internet of Things'.
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