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The Microsoft Band 2 user experience: who would have thought sleep could be so
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Microsoft recently released their second fitness tracker, the Microsoft Band 2,
and as both a fitness enthusiast and a tech guy, I was excited to test it out. I
haven't tried the original Microsoft band, but I have tried several of the
FitBit releases, and am familiar with the Samsung Gear S, so I was keen to see
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I picked up a bundle of bands at the new Microsoft store to
give to the guys at SSW. It's been enlightening to hear everybody's experiences
over the last month. Of course, they've all had different scenarios and each
have given different opinions of the quirks and foibles of the device. This
review brings together their feedback as well as my own – the good and the bad.
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Keep reading to find out how
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Featured Video from SSW TV |
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VIDEO: Past, Present and Future of MONO with Miguel de
Icaza |
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In this video, Adam Cogan talks to the creator of
Xamarin – Miguel de Icaza – about MONO, Miguel's
original invention that dealt with cross platform
development. Watch
video. |
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Mastering ReSharper |
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Being a great professional requires from you to write
high quality code and being fast at the same time.
Unless you have a great toolset this certainly isn't an
easy task. Luckily the market is full of extensions for
Visual Studio which can boost your productivity. Read
more |
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FireBootCamp is an intensive 9-week program designed to
make you "job ready". Participants learn, work and code
together for 10-12 hours per day, 5 days a week,
building a .NET application with an experienced mentor.
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Sydney, Australia |
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Xamarin Hack Days are free events that make it easy for
anyone to learn cross-platform development using
Xamarin, a product that allows you to use .NET/C# to
create native apps that will run across Android, iOS,
and Windows. Read
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Zagreb, Croatia |
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December User Group - Sydney |
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IoT/Win10 double header event - featuring Dave Glover and Chris Briggs |
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For a special December treat, we've got 2 passionate guys presenting on
everything IoT + Win10. |
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Windows Internet of Things development starts to sizzle – Learn the
Universal Windows Platform - Chris Briggs |
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Windows 10 is here and will be powering a billion devices shortly. The attendees
will learn how to develop IoT applications that target Windows 10 IoT core, by
developing on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and how to integrate the
solution with Windows Azure. Read more. |
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Windows 10 for IoT: What is it and how do you develop for it - Dave
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Windows 10 for IoT Microsoft brings the Universal Windows Platform app
development to the amazing Raspberry Pi 2 and MinnnowBoard Max devices and that
opens up a whole world of new opportunities. This is a technical developer
session starting from first principles of IoT devices, programming languages and
high level app support. It'll be fun, there will be plenty of bright lights and
hopefully you'll be inspired to go out and build. |
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About the presenters |
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Chris
Briggs is a Senior Software Developer at SSW,
passionate about IoT, Scrum, Security, Windows Universal
Apps and Xamarin. All the Devs at SSW have been asking
Chris, what he thinks the Internet of Things will mean
for their day to day lives? It ranges from the
impossible to the improbable, from automating their
coffee breaks, to telling them exactly when the next bus
will arrive!
Dave
Glover has worked for Microsoft for over 20
years mostly in our Developer Platform Group, the
first 10 years were with Microsoft UK and he
transfer to Microsoft Australia in 2004. He has
worked in various roles including people management
and across a broad spectrum of infrastructure and
developer technologies with a variety of customers
and partners.
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SSW Sydney
Gateway Court Suite 15
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay
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SSW and Octopus Deploy invite you to join us for pizza! It's a fun
and delicious opportunity for networking with peers and sharing
thoughts after the Sydney .NET User Group. Read More |
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16
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SSW Sydney
Gateway Court Suite 15
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay
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Sydney .NET User Group and NerdDinner proudly sponsored by: |
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December User Group - Canberra |
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Windows Internet of Things development starts to sizzle – Learn the Universal
Windows Platform |
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Windows 10 is here and will be powering a billion devices shortly. The attendees
will learn how to develop IoT applications that target Windows 10 IoT core, by
developing on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and how to integrate the
solution with Windows Azure. |
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In this presentation, Chris Briggs, who heads up IoT at SSW, will teach the
attendees how to take advantage of the Universal Windows Platform. The familiar
.NET platform now empowers developers do more with less work by building one
solution across half a dozen hardware platforms. Read more. |
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Presented by Chris Briggs |
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Chris
Briggs is a Senior Software Developer at SSW,
passionate about IoT, Scrum, Security, Windows Universal
Apps and Xamarin. All the Devs at SSW have been asking
Chris what he thinks the Internet of Things will mean
for their day to day lives. It ranges from the
impossible to the improbable, from automating their
coffee breaks, to telling them exactly when the next bus
will arrive! |
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Microsoft Canberra
Level 4, 6 National Circuit
Canberra
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