Blog

Dean Kerr

I'm a Lead Developer at Scott Logic based in the Newcastle office. I'm interested in all things in web and AI related!

Artificial Intelligence
This article presents Analysis / Implementation / Reflection, a simple pattern for resolving issues. While the core of this pattern, the implementation, is quite conventional, there are a couple of novel additions. In the analysis phase, the agent is used to explore the issue and create a suitable harness to evaluate the solution. While the reflection phase probes the agent to provide a qualitative assessment of the implementation.
Podcast
In this episode of Beyond the Hype, I'm joined by Bradon Rogers from Island, along with Scott Logic colleagues Dean Kerr and Robat Williams, to explore the potential of enterprise browsers to simplify security and enhance user productivity.
Podcast
A relatively new architectural style for building web-based applications, micro-frontends are an extension of the popular microservices pattern where the vertical slice of functionality that a microservice provides is extended all the way to the front-end. With micro-frontends, you can more easily scale your development teams by composing applications from loosely coupled frontend components. In this podcast we ask the question 'Do you actually need a micro-frontend?'
Tech
An introduction to our recently released open-source React Hooks library, OpenFin React Hooks. Developed especially for OpenFin and its developer community.
Tech
It’s been a couple of months since my first post about the security of Electron. With v1.0 having recently been released I felt it was time for a a fresh look
Tech
A brief look at the current state of application security in Electron
Tech
The recent rise of web applications that have all the functionality of their desktop counterparts has highlighted the fact that JavaScript MVC Frameworks are now an essential part of any modern web developers toolkit.

Talks

React Bring Your Own Project – React Hooks
28 November 2019
OpenFin React Hooks webinar
07 August 2019