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*NEW* Featured Event:
C++ and Visual Studio 2012 with Kate Gregory

Modern, Readable, Fast, Safe

One session only! C++ and Visual Studio 2012 Cost: $300 +GST PP Format: 1 day

C++ is gaining momentum as a development language, so whether you’ve never used C++ or stopped using it a decade ago, it may be time to brush up on your skills. With a new standard release providing new keywords and capabilities, C++ is a featured language for many of the new Microsoft technologies and enables some amazing speed-ups of your application using libraries like PPL and C++ AMP. What’s more, Visual Studio offers tools to native developers that have only been available for managed developers in earlier versions.

This all day session will show you what the fuss is about and give you the skills you need to understand the advantages of C++ today, and start gaining those benefits for your application.

Sydney WED 11 JULY 2012

Tech Breakfast -
C++ and Visual Studio 2012 with Kate Gregory

Tuesday 10th July 2012 9.00am - 11.00pm Cost: No Charge

C++, both the language and the libraries that come with every compiler, is defined by an ISO standard. The latest version of the standard, generally known as C++ 11 after its approval last fall, was optimistically called C++0x throughout the multi-year process that let to its adoption. Many of the language changes (new keywords, new punctuation, new rules) and library changes (genuinely smart pointers, threading, and more) have already been implemented by vendors who were following the standards process closely.

In this session Kate will introduce and demonstrate many of the highlights of C++11 including lambdas, auto, shared_ptr, and unique_ptr. These are all supported in Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010. You can see how to make your code more readable and expressive, easier to update, more correct (less bugs and memory leaks) and faster, not by trading off among those possible constraints but by adopting modern C++ which gives you improvements in all four areas at once. If you’ve been ignoring the Standard Library, for example, you must see how lambdas make all the difference and open a world of productivity to you. You’ll also see that the next version of Visual Studio has even more C++11 goodness including range-based for.

Register now in order to get a spot!

About Kate Kate Gregory is in her fourth decade of being paid to program. Her firm, Gregory Consulting Limited, is based in rural Ontario and helps clients adopt new technologies and adjust to the changing business environment. Current work makes heavy use of .NET and Visual C++ for both web and client development, especially for Windows 7 and 8. Managing, mentoring, technical writing, and technical speaking occupy much of her time, but she still writes code every week. Kate is the author of over a dozen books and speaks at DevTeach, TechEd (USA, Europe, Africa), and TechDays, among others. Kate is a C++ MVP, a founding sponsor of the Toronto .NET Users Group, the founder of the East of Toronto .NET Users group, a member of the INETA speakers bureau, and a member of adjunct faculty at Trent University in Peterborough. Since January 2002 she has been Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and since January 2004 she has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for Visual C++. In June 2005 she won the Regional Director of the year award and in February 2011 she was designated Visual C++ MVP of the year for 2010. Kate develops courses on C++, Visual Studio, and Windows programming for Pluralsight and is writing a book on C++ AMP.

SolidQ Webinar - Structure Continuum of Reports

Wednesday 4th July 2012 11.00am - 12.00pm Cost: No Charge

With SQL Server 2012, you have all possible ways to prepare reports for your end users. You can start with structured relational reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). They allow some interactivity (drill down, slicing), but end users can’t change structure of the report. With SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) BI Semantic Model (BISM), which is an additional layer of metadata and data, and with Power View as an end user tool that uses report model as source, end users get limited possibility to create the report structure on the fly. With SSAS cubes, end users can change report structure with client tools like MS Office Excel 2012 on-line. Still, they are limited to predefined attributes and grouping buckets. Data is aggregated in order to achieve maximum possible reporting performance. In SSAS Data Mining (DM), only attributes used in the model are predefined. It is up to the DM engine to discover the structure and use it for predictions. In the presentation, we are going to show these different possibilities though demos.

About Dejan Sarka Dejan Sarka, SQL Server MVP and MCT, focuses on development of database & business intelligence applications. Besides projects, he spends about half of the time on training and mentoring. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. Dejan Sarka is the main author or coauthor of nine books about databases and SQL Server. Dejan Sarka also developed two courses for SolidQ - Data Modeling Essentials and Data Mining with SQL Server 2008.

Enterprise MVC Apps - Two part course

The Model View Controller design pattern has been an proven and effective way of structuring applications for more than 30 years. In 2007, Microsoft introduced ASP.NET MVC to the world and since then, the framework has evolved into a mature and powerful way of writing dynamic web sites and powerful web applications.

ASP.NET MVC provides a great way of structuring your application, ensuring a clean separation of concerns, easy testability, and ultimate control over markup. It is quickly becoming the go-to framework for writing .Net web applications.

This 2 part course series will be run at 3 capital cities around Australia, with an option to complete the course online where you are unable to attend a location.

Enterprise MVC Apps Part I: Going beyond the demos

This course will introduce you to the latest version of ASP.NET MVC; version 4. Throughout the course, attendees will be guided through building a full ASP.NET MVC application from scratch.

Read more about Enterprise MVC Apps Part I

Brisbane FRI 13 JULY 2012
Melbourne TUE 17 JULY 2012
Sydney WED 18 JULY 2012
Online WED 25 JULY 2012

Enterprise MVC Apps Part II: Making them 500% more Enterprisey

In this course will show you the techniques and tools SSW developers use to make MVC Enterprise ready.

Read more about Enterprise MVC Apps Part II

Brisbane FRI 3 AUGUST 2012
Melbourne TUE 7 AUGUST 2012
Sydney WED 8 AUGUST 2012
Online WED 22 AUGUST 2012

Featured Video:
Walking the Turtle: An In-Depth Look at Pyxis and ‘Urban Turtle’

Adam Cogan interviews Dominic Danis from Pyxis, a software consulting firm based in Montreal.

Pyxis is a fascinating company. Based on a mantra of ‘it’s all about the people’, we see in this video how Dominic and his colleagues strive to always provide the best workplace conditions for their employees.

It’s easy to see how the great working conditions and relaxed atmosphere have translated into great real world products for Pyxis; Urban Turtle, an Agile plug-in for TFS 2010, is a prime example of this.

From the video, you’ll see:

• An in-depth look at Urban Turtle for TFS 2010, plus some discussion on possible new features (such as Kinect integration)
• How the product was almost called ‘Greenhopper’ for TFS

Watch the video on SSWTV

SolidQ Training Courses

SSW and SolidQ offer premium public and private SQL Server Training and Business Intelligence Training. These courses are running throughout Australia (Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, and Perth), New Zealand (Auckland) and world-wide. SolidQ have developed a full spectrum of courses for developers, database administrators and business intelligence professionals working with Microsoft SQL Server and the Microsoft data platform.

Choose from one of our great courses

Accelerated SQL Server 2012 Integration Services - 4 Days

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Brisbane 9 JULY 2012
Melbourne 16 JULY 2012
Sydney 6 AUGUST 2012

Microsoft BI Bootcamp: SQL Server 2008 R2 and Office 2010 - 5 Days

Read more about Microsoft BI Bootcamp

Melbourne 23 JULY 2012
Sydney 30 JULY 2012

Optimization/Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting - 5 Days

Read more about Optimization/Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting

Sydney 17 SEPTEMBER 2012

T-SQL Fundamentals - 4 Days

Read more about T-SQL Fundamentals

Melbourne 30 JULY 2012
Brisbane 6 AUGUST 2012
Sydney 13 AUGUST 2012

3 Day Scrum Training - Intensive Developer Course

New 3 day format! Intensive 3-day Professional Scrum Developer course Cost: $2995 +GST PP Brisbane, Melbourne, San Francisco, Beijing, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Amsterdam, Cologne, Stuttgart/Munich, Zagreb

Professional Scrum Developer courses teach students how to work in a team, using modern software engineering practices, to develop an increment of potentially releasable functionality using a specific technology platform. Students learn to do so within the Scrum framework doing iterative incremental development.

Classes are exercise-driven, with students working in self-organizing teams to develop “done” increments from Product Backlog items.

Course at a Glance

This 3-day Professional Scrum Developer .NET course is a mix of lecture, demonstration, group discussion, simulation, and hands-on software development. The bulk of the course will be spent working as a team on a case study application delivering increments of new functionality in mini-sprints. Here is the course at a glance:

Note: Scrum fundamentals are not covered in this 3-day course. If you are not experienced with Scrum fundamentals, the 5 day course is still available.

Scrum either through working on a Scrum Team or through taking part in a Professional Scrum Foundations course.

*NEW* Amsterdam, NL 3 JULY 2012		*NEW* Cologne, DE 10 JULY 2012
*NEW* Stuttgart/Munich, DE 17 JULY 2012		*NEW* Zagreb, HR 24 JULY 2012
Canberra 7 AUG 2012

Sydney .NET User Group -
The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney

2 Days to go! Sydney .NET User Group Wednesday 20th June 2012 5:45pm - 9:00pm SSW Head Office Gateway Court, Suite 13 81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay

Azure feature review

With Azure now in full swing with new features being released, it's a great time take a look at the data related functions of Azure. Solution Architect at SSW, Mehmet Ozdemir will give a walk-through of the SQL Azure, Azure Reporting and Azure Sync components.

Mehmet will show you how to get started on Azure; creating a SQL database, getting data into Azure, syncing data from on-premise databases in SQL Azure and back. He will also show how to get the most out of your data by generating reports using Azure Reporting. Finally he will also demo some of the new cool features such as VM deployments into Azure. This session will be light on slide ware and packed with demos.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Mehmet Ozdemir is a Solution Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Professional specialising in BI, CRM and SharePoint solutions. Mehmet has extensive experience in Microsoft products both pre and post .NET and loves working with C#, VB .NET and SQL. In previous roles before SSW, Mehmet has worked with BI tools such as Teradata Data Warehouse, Oracle DRM (Master Data Management), Essbase and Cognos ReportNet.

To see more details and RSVP, please visit our Facebook .NET Group or our LinkedIn .NET Group.

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SSW and Telerik NerdDinner

2 days to go! NerdDinner Wednesday 20th June 2012 8:10pm - 9:30pm The Oaks Hotel 118 Military Road, Neutral Bay

As a change from sushi at the Sydney .NET User Group, SSW and Telerik invite you to join us for pizza at The Oaks. A fantastic opportunity for networking with peers and sharing thoughts after the User Group presentation

Sydney .Net User Group and NerdDinner proudly sponsored by:

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