| SSW Update - The Architect's Master Class is Nearly Here |
[the cutting edge ]G'Day Developers! SSW has always used best programming practices, as you can see in our multitude of standards and rules. Coming up soon, we will have a 5 day course teaching the reasons behind some of the most popular software architecture choices. Adam
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2 months to go!
Juval Lowy's - The Architect's Master Class
Monday 11th - Friday 15th July 2011 |
The Architect's Master Class is a 5 day training course, and is the ultimate resource for the professional architect. The class is conducted in the style of a Master Class, where a Master architect shares his experience and perspective, and interacts with his students.
The class has three parts, on process, technology & SOA, and the IDesign method for analysis and design. The class shows the architect how to take an active leadership role on all three aspects, as a continuum, since when executing a design, one cannot separate process, design and technology - all three have to work in concert. While the class shows how to design modern systems, it sets the focus on the 'why' and the rationale behind particular design decisions, often shedding light on poorly understood aspects.
You will see relevant design guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls, and the crucial process required of today's modern architects. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to learn and improve your architecture skills with IDesign, and share their passion for architecture and software engineering.
| Sydney 11-15 July 2011 |
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Sydney .NET User Group -
The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney
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6 days to go!
Sydney .NET User Group |
Silverlight vs. HTML5 - Lessons learned
Speaker: Peter Gfader
Peter will talk about his latest project, building a better EBay in Silverlight, and will show us his views on this topic.
Bio
Peter was born in South Tirol Italy, studied in Austria, and now works in Sydney Australia as a consultant for SSW. Peter is an Agile Enthusiast, aspiring Software Craftsman, likes Clean Code and is a strong believer in improving in baby steps.
To see more details and RSVP, please visit our facebook .NET group or our LinkedIn .NET group.
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Canberra .NET User Group -
The best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra
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4 days to go!
Canberra .NET Developers User Group
Lunch: 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Taking Advantage of the New Landscape
Speaker: Rocky Heckman
With a lot of new technology in play around cloud and phone it is an awesome time to be involved with IT. We'll have a look at what this means for developers and how you can take advantage of this new landscape to rise above the crowd.
We are currently looking for potential speakers for future sessions. Anyone who is interested in speaking at the Canberra .NET User Group in the future should contact Adam Cogan on 04 1985 1995 or email him.
To see more details and RSVP, please visit our facebook .NET group or our LinkedIn .NET group.
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SSW Brain Quest -
Team Foundation Server and SharePoint 2010
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18 days to go!
SSW Brain Quest Full Day Event: |
Team Foundation Server 2010 for Successful Project Management by Adam Cogan
Visual Studio Ultimate (formerly Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are the cornerstones of development on the Microsoft .NET platform. These are the best tools for a project manager to have successful projects and for developers to have a focused and smooth software development process.
Come and see Adam Cogan, Microsoft Regional Director, VSTS Champ and Chief Architect from SSW show you:
- How to successfully gather requirements with User stories
- The right way to use work items
- The way to complete a work item and send a 'done'
- Use templates for your standard work items
- The extra work items that developers always forget
- What is good and bad about Excel and Project integration
- What you can use from the built in reporting as well as the Project portals available on from the SharePoint dashboard
- The important reports to give your Project Manager
Walk away knowing how to see the project health and progress. Visual Studio Ultimate is designed to help address many of these traditional problems faced by project managers. It does so by providing a set of integrated tools to help teams improve their software development activities and to help project managers better support the software development processes.
During this session we will cover the lifecycle of creating work items and tracking of releases using Visual Studio Ultimate and Team Foundation Server.
Visual Studio 2010 Team System - An OverviewMicrosoft Visual Studio 2010 Team System is an integrated software development platform to build the mission-critical applications that businesses depend on. It extends Visual Studio's integrated and productive experience from the developer to the entire development team by delivering powerful new role-based tools for software architects, developers, testers and project managers. In this session you will see an overview of these tools and how they can improve your software development cycle.
Visual Studio 2010 Testing with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 - the life of a bugVisual Studio 2010 makes up a large part of a .Net developers life. This session will delve into the 'life of a bug' by taking a walk in the shoes of an everyday bug from discovery to release (and the steps that make up the in between). Come along and check out the new features that will make you happier by making your code better, your job easier, and your team more productive by reducing the obstacles you face in your everyday coding life. Learn:
- What the new features for testers and developers
- How you now care - even if a tester can't reproduce the bug
- How to stop struggling to find the source of the bug in your code
- How can you streamline the testing process and make sure you don't repeat the same bugs
- How to automate more and reproduce bugs easier and discover problems sooner.
In this session Adam Cogan will provide information about what is new in SharePoint 2010 and his personal favorites. The SharePoint Team has invested in many including:
- UX support for Silverlight and Ajax
- their Web Content Management System
- Digital Asset Management System (for videos)
- Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint 2010
- Developer Platform
- Office 2010 integration
- RESTful Web API
- Tagging and Rating
Let's see what's good and what's not.
Something About Mary (SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010)Come see Adam Cogan explain what works well with SharePoint and Office for Mary and the other knowledge workers.
First you will get an overview of what is great about having SharePoint in your business. Then see real world examples of:
- Using SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 together (Comparing with what with had with 2007)
- Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like CRM 4 and TFS
- Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then followed by
- Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with SharePoint to improve visibility/searchability/versioning across the company
- Overview of how data can be synchronised between the two (e.g. using Access and Excel)
- Overview of what 'workflow' (really!) means
- How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with SharePoint
- High level examples of using/integrating Office with other products (e.g. VSTS integration with Outlook)
- Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be developed
- Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations (e.g. the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Office Connector)
This is a good chance for you to consider new ways of using Office in your company, along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this session because too often companies limit Office to just an email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business process.
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TFS 2010 $110 |
SHAREPOINT $110 |
FULL DAY $190 |
HOSTED Microsoft |
| Sydney 30 MAY 2011 |
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Microsoft Sydney |
Scrum Training Course
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Scrum Training Course |
This course is normally $3995 but there is a limited offer for User Group members to do the course at $2995 + GST
Overview
This Scrum Developer course is a unique and intensive five-day experience for software developers. The course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2010, and modern software engineering practices. Attendees will work in self-organizing, self-managing teams using a common instance of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 to achieve this goal.
| Brisbane 23 MAY 2011 |
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| New Delhi 30 MAY 2011 |
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| Melbourne 20 JUN 2011 |
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| Honolulu 27 JUN 2011 |
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| Sydney 25 JUL 2011 |
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Featured Product: SSW Code Auditor
Automate your Code Reviews with SSW Code Auditor
Are you looking to eradicate bugs and ensure consistency? SSW Code Auditor is a code analysis tool that allows developers to take control of your code, ensuring large, complex source code can be simplified, cleaned and maintained. The built-in rules focus on the most popular .NET languages (C#, VB.NET) for both Windows Forms and ASP.NET; however, the flexibility of SSW Code Auditor allows the developer to add their own rules to target any language in any text file.
Advertise with SSW
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May 2011 |
EmploymentDue to the tremendous growth that our business has experienced over the last few months, we are seeking enthusiastic people to join the SSW team. Our Company is based in Neutral Bay which is one of the most elegant and scenic areas of Sydney. SSW is an Australian owned progressive consulting firm specialising in building, implementing and maintaining Microsoft .NET software applications. We are currently strongly looking for a Marketing and Social Networking Manager. We are also currently looking for:
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