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Featured Video: SSW Webinar – SQL Server

A chance to watch SSW’s last Webinar broadcasted live on the 6th of October

Are your users starting a report and going for a coffee or a smoke while they wait? Are your users constantly complaining about timeouts when using your application?

If you find yourself with a sluggish database, stop pulling your hair out! In this webinar SSW will show you the top 8 methods we use to reduce the time it takes to run queries from minutes or hours to seconds.

This webinar will provide the viewer with:

1. Top 8 ways to improve the performance of your SQL Server Database
2. How to prevent performance issues from occurring
3. How to resolve these issues after it goes into production
4. How write code that ensures your SQL server remains healthy
5. Steps an administrator can take to return your SQL server to optimal health

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Featured Event: *NEW* SharePoint 101 for Business Webinar

21 February 2012 11.00am - 12.00pm Cost: No Charge

SharePoint 2010 is a very powerful collaboration tool and one of Microsoft's most popular business products. Many business people have heard about SharePoint but struggle to understand exactly how SharePoint can improve their business processes. Decision makers who are interested in using SharePoint, can find it hard to find the right information to help them make informed decisions.

A search on Google will provide a lot of technical information on SharePoint 2010, but this information can be difficult for a non IT person to understand. This webinar presents the features and business case to use SharePoint in terms that all business people can understand.

Webinar Objectives

This webinar will provide the attendee with:

• A broad understanding of the SharePoint feature set
• An in depth understanding of how key features of SharePoint can enhance business processes
• An understanding of the costs, timelines, staff involvement and commitment a business will incur when implementing SharePoint
• This webinar is presented in layman terms which staff in all departments can understand.

To read more, go to: SharePoint 101 for Business Webinar

*NEW* Windows Azure Webinar - What you need to know about moving your Apps

23 February 2012 11.00am - 12.00pm Cost: No Charge

More and more companies are moving their infrastructure to the cloud. Driven by the low costs in terms of hardware, bandwidth and the promised reduction in support staff to maintain the infrastructure. So is moving to the cloud the right decision for your business?

Join Solution Architect Eric Phan as he shows you the what, why and how of moving your apps to the cloud. There will be lots of time for live questions.

Webinar Objectives

This webinar will provide the attendee with:

• An understanding of the benefits of moving your app to Windows Azure
• The reasons why the cloud may not be a good decision for your business
• An understanding of the steps required for converting your applications to Windows Azure
• Ample time to ask questions from the presenter

3 Day Scrum Training - Intensive Developer Course

Starting in February 2012! Intensive 3-day Professional Scrum Developer course Cost: $2995 +GST PP Brisbane, Melbourne, San Francisco, Beijing, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra NEW Scrum Training Course

Professional Scrum Developer courses teach students how to work in a team, using modern software engineering practices, to develop an increment of potentially releasable functionality using a specific technology platform. Students learn to do so within the Scrum framework doing iterative incremental development.

Classes are exercise-driven, with students working in self-organizing teams to develop “done” increments from Product Backlog items.

Course at a Glance

This 3-day Professional Scrum Developer .NET course is a mix of lecture, demonstration, group discussion, simulation, and hands-on software development. The bulk of the course will be spent working as a team on a case study application delivering increments of new functionality in mini-sprints. Here is the course at a glance:

Note: Scrum fundamentals are not covered in this 3-day course. If you are not experienced with Scrum fundamentals, the 5 day course is still available.

Scrum either through working on a Scrum Team or through taking part in a Professional Scrum Foundations course.

Brisbane 6 FEB 2012		Sydney 16 APR 2012
Melbourne 14 FEB 2012		Perth 24 APR 2012
San Francisco 21 FEB 2012		Adelaide 1 MAY 2012
Beijing 20 MAR 2012		Canberra 8 MAY 2012

Sydney .NET User Group -
The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney

6 Days to go! Sydney .NET User Group Wednesday 18th Jan 2012 5:45pm - 9:00pm SSW Head Office Gateway Court, Suite 13 81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay

Protecting your web apps from the tyranny of evil with OWASP

Speaker: Troy Hunt

We’ve all seen the news lately – big guys like Gawker and Sony falling heavily due to serious security vulnerabilities in their web application designs.

This session includes a brief intro to the risks web apps face and what OWASP is all about. There are then a few minutes on each of the OWASP Top 10 web application security risks in terms of both what the risk is (i.e. SQL injection allowing execution of unintended TSQL) and what the mitigation techniques are (i.e. input parsing, command parameterisation). The mitigations will specifically refer to facilities provided within ASP.NET.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

To see more details and RSVP, please visit our Facebook .NET Group or our LinkedIn .NET Group.

Sydney .Net User Group proudly sponsored by:

Canberra .NET User Group -
The best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra

Relaunch of the Canberra .NET User Group in 2012

SSW is planning to relaunch the Canberra .NET User Group in 2012 and hopes to make this the best .NET User Group in the country but we can’t do it without your help.

If you live in Canberra and have previously attended our User Group or you might like to attend future sessions then please fill out our short online survey and let us know how we can improve this User Group.

We want to know where and when you would like the User Group to be held and what topics you want us to cover along with any other feedback you are wanting to give.

We have already received many great responses to our survey. We will be relaunching the Canberra User Group soon so this is your chance to let us know what you want.

Welcome to SSW

SSW would like to welcome a new employee to the team this month:

Starting the new year off with a new job, Megan is taking over the role of Adam's personal assistant. She has previously worked as a practice manager for a small veterinary clinic; this involved not only dealing with animals but with a large focus on customer service and problem solving.

She looks forward to the challenges of organising Adam's busy schedule as well as looking for new ways of doing things which improves life for everybody.

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