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                                                        Reflecting on 2020 – Embracing ChangeWith so much of our time already dominated by Coronavirus, I
                                                        didn’t want my 2020 year in review to be just about the changes
                                                        it has wrought on the world. I know in Australia we have all
                                                        experienced the upheaval at work, the pain of the severe
                                                        lockdowns, social isolation, and more importantly, the fear for
                                                        the vulnerable. Over the Christmas New Year Break I took an afternoon off with my
                                                        girls, and we sat and wrote a retrospective of 2020 and then
                                                        shared our highlights and lowlights with each other. We
                                                        discovered that 2020 for us was about embracing change and
                                                        lowering our expectations. Even though it was massively
                                                        disruptive, the girls were able to see the positives. It was
                                                        nice to hear them talk about the year like that, because it
                                                        showed their resilience. My daughter Eve who is now 19, wrote a review
                                                            of her year too. After that we did the same thing again
                                                        with our goals for 2021. I always enjoy that time with my
                                                        family.Keep reading to see
                                                        a snap shot of what happened at SSW this year, and some of the
                                                        good things to come out of 2020 |  
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                                                                    Transform your Power BI dashboards with Custom
                                                                    Visuals built in React | Prem Radhakrishnan
                                                                Learn how to build your very own Custom Visual for
                                                                    Power BI using a web framework like React and embed
                                                                    it in your web application. You will fast track your
                                                                    learning, pick up some cool tips and most
                                                                    importantly avoid the common pitfalls when starting
                                                                    off in the world of Visualisation.Watch
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                                                                        | Power Platform can help you create
                                                                                solutions for all of your internal and
                                                                                external processes. Microsoft's Power
                                                                                Platform is a set of low-code
                                                                                applications that can be used
                                                                                individually to create easy-to-use
                                                                                business solutions. These applications
                                                                                can be used together and combined with
                                                                                Office 365 and Azure to create a smooth
                                                                                flow throughout your whole business,
                                                                                from client communication to financial
                                                                                analytics. Could
                                                                                    you be supercharging your business
                                                                                    through Power Apps? Learn more.
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                                                                        | Come watch our best Angular devs build an
                                                                                Angular 11 application from scratch and
                                                                                take it all the way to an enterprise
                                                                                application using all the best tools and
                                                                                practices we use. Don't waste weeks learning Angular, the
                                                                                Angular CLI, RxJS, TypeScript, ngrx,
                                                                                NPM, WebPack, end to end testing and
                                                                                unit testing. Get a jump start in just
                                                                                one day. Read
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 FRI
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                                                                        | In this workshop we will cover the best
                                                                                approach, and will give you practical
                                                                                guidance to building enterprise
                                                                                applications using Clean Architecture
                                                                                and the new .NET 5 framework.  You will leave this superpowers having
                                                                                developed the foundation and structure
                                                                                for your next enterprise application,
                                                                                along with the knowledge to take your
                                                                                enterprise application development to
                                                                                the next level. Read
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                                                                    SSW User Groups: We've been successfully running
                                                                    these online, but if you're in Sydney we'd love to
                                                                    see you in person. RSVP to [email protected]
                                                                    with the subject: "I want 1 of the 10 spots" before
                                                                    Monday 14th Dec (masks are required).
                                                                    Automagic Multi-Tenancy Config for Mobile Apps
                                                                    by Matt Goldman
                                                                How do you get environment- or tenant-specific config
                                                                    into your users' hands? For consumer apps where
                                                                    everyone's configuration is the same, this isn't a
                                                                    problem. But for Enterprise apps with a unique
                                                                    configuration for each tenant or environment, your
                                                                    users need their config to get up and running. When deploying a web application to different
                                                                    environments or tenants, developers and sysadmins
                                                                    can configure those environments, either manually or
                                                                    with DevOps, and your users don't have to worry.
                                                                    With mobile or desktop apps, for managed devices we
                                                                    can pre-configure these using SOE or MDM tools, but
                                                                    deploying configuration to unmanaged devices is the
                                                                    real challenge. In this talk, Matt looks at some different options
                                                                    for automating this for your users, to reduce human
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 Matt Goldman is an SSW
                                                                                Software Architect. Drawing on a
                                                                                combination of hands-on experience and
                                                                                enterprise governance practices, Matt is
                                                                                able to make connections between
                                                                                business and technology to deliver user
                                                                                and business focused outcomes. Matt has worked in IT for 15 years, with
                                                                                a background in infrastructure and
                                                                                management, and has delivered security
                                                                                policies, IT strategies and disaster
                                                                                recovery plans to a number of high
                                                                                profile national and multi-national
                                                                                clients. Throughout his career Matt has enjoyed
                                                                                scripting and programming and used these
                                                                                skills to enhance his work in other
                                                                                areas, but has now turned to developing
                                                                                software full-time, specialising in .NET
                                                                                Core, Angular, Xamarin and Azure as well
                                                                                as security and authentication. See
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