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China: Coming to a Town Near You
I've been interested in China for over 2
decades. I've always been impressed with the way
the Chinese have developed their own digital
eco-system following the introduction of the
Great Firewall of China in 2009.
Since that fateful year, 2009, China, in its own
technosphere, has evolved into one of the
world's leading digital economies. I'm lucky to
be able to visit China regularly as SSW has 2
offices there, one in Beijing and one in
Hangzhou. With each visit, I see more and more
examples of Chinese technology, and the rate of
change I see far surpasses the West.
Over the last few months, I've started to see a
new trend emerging.
What is this trend? Keep reading to find
out!
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Featured video from SSW TV
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VIDEO: Avoiding Agile
Anti-patterns with #NoProjects
and #AgileManagement
Transformation | John Strieker
Agile project methodologies are
widely adopted by the IT
industry, but the project
failure rates remain consistent.
John will share his experience
of common Systemic Agile
anti-patterns, examine the
underlying causes of these
failures and present remedies in
order to #MakeAgileGreatAgain.
Watch video
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2-Day Angular
workshop
In this workshop we
will build a CRM
application with
Angular using
components,
services, dependency
injection, forms,
Angular modules and
lazy loaded routes.
We will then cover
unit tests and using
the redux pattern
with the ngrx
library.
By the end of this
workshop you will
have built a working
Angular applications
you can extend into
a working enterprise
application.
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MAY
16
THU
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Brisbane,
Australia
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MAY
21
TUE
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Melbourne,
Australia
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MAY
23
THU
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Sydney,
Australia
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1-Day Azure course
This one-day event
is designed to bring
developers
up-to-speed on the
new features and
benefits of using
Microsoft Azure to
build awesome
cloud-based
applications.
At SSW we have
already gone through
the hard work of
learning how to
implement apps on
Azure and we will be
showing you
everything you need
to know in a day to
get started.
Read
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OCT
22
TUE
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Brisbane,
Australia
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OCT
23
WED
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Melbourne,
Australia
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OCT
25
Fri
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Sydney,
Australia
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With the latest release
of Angular, there's even
more to learn and love.
Angular Hack Days are
free events for beginner
and
pros alike
to come and
share the
thrill of
creating
something
beautiful
in a supportive
and friendly
environment.
Read
More
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JUN
1
Sat
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Brisbane,
Australia
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JUN
22
Sat
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Melbourne,
Australia
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MAR
7
Sat
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Next
year in
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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MAy
18
Sat
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Sydney,
Australia
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JUL
13
Sat
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Melbourne,
Australia
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3
Sat
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Brisbane,
Australia
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Sydney and Canberra .NET User Groups: Rapidly Producing
Real World IoT Projects – presented by Peter Cole
I was given the challenge of producing a low cost
customer tracking solution for the Microsoft Technology
Centre in Sydney.
The team was astounded at how I made a working prototype
in just 3 days, using open source technology, RFID tags
and Azure IoT services. Come along and see how you can
do it!
In this talk, we'll draw on ideas and insight from user
experience, API design, psychology and education to show
how you can incorporate discoverability into every layer
of your application. We'll look at some real-world
systems, and we'll discuss how discoverability works
with different interaction paradigms.
Because, whether you're building databases, class
libraries, hypermedia APIs or mobile apps, sooner or
later somebody else is going to work with your code -
and when they do, wouldn't it be great if they went away
afterwards with a smile on their face?
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About the presenter
Peter Cole, Technical Solutions
Professional for Azure app development.
He has a very diverse background in
electrical engineering and naturally
gravitated to IoT solutions. Combining
his passion of electronics with his
development skills allows him to rapidly
prototype solutions on the Azure
platform.
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APR
15
Mon
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Microsoft Canberra
Branch
Level 4, 6 National
Circuit
Canberra
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APR
17
WED
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SSW Sydney
Gateway Court Suite
15
81-91 Military Road,
Neutral Bay
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Melbourne .NET User Group double header: Scrum and the "Product person" + Azure
DevOps and CosmosDB
Session #1: The View From The Bridge – presented by Chris Drylie
The importance of having direction and the right focus is not as clear cut as
most of companies think. Here we will review what the dev team is made up of and
the why it is so important to have that ‘Product’ person as part of the team and
not just someone who sits on the side lines telling you what people want and why
they want it. Cutting through buzz words like Product Owner and Manager and
understanding the core of these principles and what they bring to the team.
This presentation will discuss these challenges faced when a new Product member
joins a development team that has never had this voice before and how to address
these concerns that follow and the positive/negative outcomes of a change of
this nature. How this increased volume, variety, and velocity of work being
generated by these teams, but put them under a spotlight they had never been
part of before. We will also touch on the point that this is not limited to any
one methodology and how this person bridges the gap between the development team
and the world.
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About the presenter
Chris Drylie had the dream of becoming the first Scottish NBA
player, however it turned out that 'Robert Archibald' beat him
to it back in 2002. Since this dream crushing realization, Chris
set his sights on becoming the best Product Management Leader he
could. Now with over 16+ years working in the IT industry, he
finds himself as the Senior Product Owner at StarRez Inc. Where
he has learned to thrive in the chaos of software development.
He has taken his passion and applied it to managing complex
cross-team initiatives and strategic programs. he helps
organizations be more productive, thereby making it possible to
achieve their business goals and sometimes plays basketball on
the side.
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Session #2: DevOps saves you $$$ - Slash your CosmosDB cost while Boosting your
Performance – presented by William Liebenberg
In this presentation William Liebenberg who has used SQL Server for 10 years,
will show you how he changed his world using CosmosDB.
William will show you how to set up your Azure DevOps Build Pipeline for
automated cost testing with CosmosDB. You will learn the secrets to reduce costs
and optimize performance by using measurements from your tests.
Today we measure test outcomes in terms of success or failure. Tomorrow with
CosmosDB we also need to consider many other factors eg. selecting an
appropriate partition key, consistency level and how we structure our queries.
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About the presenter
William Liebenberg is a Solution Architect at SSW with almost 15
years of professional experience. He loves building
enterprise-grade applications and sharing what he learns along
the way. Currently he specializes in Azure, .NET Core, Angular,
and Azure DevOps. William also presents the SSW Azure
Superpowers Tour around Australia and hosts the Melbourne .NET
User Group
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APR
10
Wed
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SSW Melbourne
Level 1, 370 Little
Bourke St
Melbourne
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Brisbane Full Stack User Group: Power BI for Developers - presented by Peter
Myers
Integrate, Extend, Embed!
In this session, you will learn how developers can deliver real-time dashboards,
create custom visuals and embed rich interactive analytics in their apps with
Power BI. This presentation specifically targets experienced app developers, and
also those curious to understand what developers can achieve with Power BI.
Numerous demonstrations will put the theory into action
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About the presenters
Peter Myers is a consultant, trainer and presenter, and has
worked with Microsoft database and development products since
1997. Today he specializes in all Microsoft Business
Intelligence products and also authors training course content
for Microsoft products and services. He has a broad business
background supported by a bachelor’s degree in applied economics
and accounting, and he extends this with extensive experience
backed by current MCSE certifications. He has been a Data
Platform MVP since 2007.
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APR
10
WED
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SSW Brisbane
Unit 4, 471
Adelaide St
Brisbane
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