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G'day Developers!
Building a Sitefinity croquembouche in just 4 weeks. Beautiful Style, Cracking
Performance
Figure: SSW sent the APA website live 28th July 2014
OK it was not a croquembouche, but it was a beautiful website designed and delivered in just
4 weeks. It was designed with enough pizzazz to support a national advertising campaign.
At SSW, we love a challenge. Clients give us a chance to flex our creative and
problem-solving muscles, and think outside the box to create solutions.
So when we took on the creation of the Australian
Patisserie Academy's website, we were thrilled with the opportunity to race
against the
clock to make something great, while meeting the extremely strict requirements of:
- a 4 week deadline
- a site that was both sexy and scalable
- powered by a user friendly CMS
Combining some of our best technologies, including Sitefinity, practices, and teams, we
were able to achieve all of the requirements, and the clients were delighted with the
result.
If the site looks familiar, maybe you saw it on TV – the site was featured on several
programs, including Better Home and Gardens (Channel 9), and Lyndey Milan's program on
the Lifestyle Food Channel (Foxtel).
Keep reading to find out how we did it.
-Adam Cogan, SSW
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New SSW TV video!
How to choose the best developer bootcamp
In this interview Marlon Marescia from FireBootCamp interviews Jonathan Lau from SwitchUp.org on:
- Jonathan's experience attending a coding bootcamp
- How to choose the right boot camp to attend
- The pros and cons of coding boot camps
- Which platform to learn when starting to code
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Webinar: Dev Superpowers - Bootstrap
Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC - presented by Ben Cull
Beautiful and consistent web application design
Thursday 28th August
11.00am - 12.00pm AEST
Cost: No Charge
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Bootstrap is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end
framework for faster and easier web development. Join Ben as he shows you
how easy it is to make use of the framework, and step beyond the "just
another bootstrap site" look and feel.
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About the presenter:
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Ben Cull is a Software Architect for https://www.ssw.com.au.
When he's not coding a million start-up ideas or babbling on his blog over
at
https://benjii.me, you can
find him brewing more beer than he can drink.
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More webinars coming soon:
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New course: Advanced T-SQL, Programming and Tuning for SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012
Presented by Itzik Ben-Gan
The course focuses on writing and tuning queries and programming with
T-SQL in SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012.
Along the course, you will learn how to use T-SQL to solve practical
problems.
You will learn how to tune your queries, how to develop efficient
routines including user defined functions, stored procedures and triggers,
work in multi-user environments with transactions and isolation levels, and use dynamic
SQL securely and efficiently.
You will also learn how to maintain and query hierarchical data.
Moreover, query tuning is in the heart of this course and is incorporated in the
different modules throughout the course.
With each querying/programming problem the discussions will revolve around logical
aspects, set-based vs. procedural programming and optimization of the solutions.
Start date: Monday, October 27
Length: 5 day course
Early bird price: $2,765 + GST
Interstate early birds: If you are from Melbourne or Brisbane and want
to attend, we will fly you to Sydney for free. You will be responsible for your own
accommodation.
About the presenter:
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Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Co-Founder of SolidQ. A SQL Server Microsoft
MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous
training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and
Programming.
Itzik is the author of several books including Microsoft SQL Server 2012
T-SQL Fundamentals and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL
Using Window Functions. He has written many articles for SQL Server Pro as
well as articles and whitepapers for MSDN.
Itzik's speaking activities include TechEd, DevWeek, SQLPASS, SQL Server
Magazine Connections, various user groups around the world, and SolidQ's
events to name a few.
Itzik is the author of SolidQ's Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and
Tuning and T-SQL Fundamentals courses along with being a primary resource
within the company for their T-SQL related activities.
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Become a World Class Developer in just 9 weeks with FireBootCamp!
Special Intensive Course
Redmond, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, San Francisco
Looking to hire a .NET developer?
Come and meet the latest BootCampers when they graduate September 19
- Get your free ticket today
The FireBootCamp program is an intensive, full-time, 9-week program. Participants learn,
work and code together for 10-12 hours per day, 5 days
a week. There are exercise and food breaks, but for the main the program is continual
hands-on learning.
The program focuses on real world skills including Agile software development practices,
enterprise architecture, application life cycle,
end-to-end testing and user interface design. The technology stack covers .NET MVC,
TypeScript, JavaScript & jQuery and uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.
Scheduled Boot Camps:
Redmond, WA, USA
6th Oct - 5th Dec 2014
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
19th Jan - 20th Mar 2015
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Redmond, WA, USA
26th Jan - 20th Mar 2015
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Redmond, WA, USA
20th Apr - 12th Jun 2015
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Redmond, WA, USA
29th Jun - 31st Aug 2015
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Find out more and register
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Sydney .NET User Group
The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney
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Sydney .NET User Group
Wednesday 20th August 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm
SSW Office
Gateway Court, Suite 13
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay NSW 2089
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"What's New in Visual Studio + ALM"- Adam Cogan
The latest versions of Visual Studio and TFS are packed full of great new tools.
Among the highlights are improved tools for Windows Phone 8.1 and Microsoft Azure,
tooling support for Apache Cordova, ASP.NET vNext preview,
the great new TFS Rest API, Application Insights and well as a bunch of cross-platform
additions to make the mobile development experience fantastic.
Come along and check out how you should be building your next application.
About the presenters:
Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing
in custom .NET, SharePoint and CRM solutions (with a splash of Business Intelligence).
At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of
industries such as Government, engineering, banking, insurance and manufacturing since
1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Worley Parsons and Aurecon.
To see more details and RSVP, please visit
our Facebook
.NET Group,
our LinkedIn .NET Group
or our Meetup Group.
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Can't make it to the Sydney .NET User Group?
Watch the Live stream!
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Tune in from anywhere!
Sydney .NET User Group Live
6PM AEST (UTC+11)
The team at SSW TV are now streaming our User Group sessions live. Each
session will also be published on the SSW TV site after the event so you can
review what was said in the sessions.
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Then join us at the NerdDinner
Where nerds meet and eat
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 Sydney .NET User Group
presentation.
Sydney .NET User Group and NerdDinner proudly sponsored by:
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Canberra .NET User Group
The best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra
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Canberra .NET User Group
Monday 18th August 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Microsoft Canberra Branch
Level 4, 6 National Circuit
Barton, Australia
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"What's New in Visual Studio + ALM"- Adam Cogan
The latest versions of Visual Studio and TFS are packed full of great new tools. Among
the highlights are improved tools for Windows Phone 8.1 and Microsoft
Azure, tooling support for Apache Cordova, ASP.NET vNext preview, the great new TFS Rest
API, Application Insights and well as a bunch of cross-platform additions
to make the mobile development experience fantastic. Come along and check out how you
should be building your next application.
About the presenters:
Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing
in custom .NET, SharePoint and CRM solutions (with a splash of Business Intelligence).
At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of
industries such as Government, engineering, banking, insurance and manufacturing since
1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Worley Parsons and Aurecon.
To see more details and RSVP, please visit
our Facebook
.NET Group,
our LinkedIn .NET Group or
our Meetup Group.
Canberra .NET User Group proudly sponsored by:
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Advertise with SSW
If you would like to advertise your product or service with SSW or would like to
find out more about various advertising opportunities, please email your enquiry
to [email protected] or call: +61
2 9953 3000.
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August 2014
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Employment
Senior SharePoint 2013 Developers
Brisbane or Sydney
SSW is looking for an experienced and talented SharePoint developer who is passionate
about implementing awesome SharePoint solutions.
This role requires great communication skills and solid experience delivering
production-ready SharePoint solutions.
SSW has been the leading Microsoft technology company in Sydney for 21 years. We require
an enthusiastic Senior SharePoint developer to start at our Brisbane or Sydney branch
ASAP.
Read more and APPLY NOW...
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