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Featured Event:
Windows Azure Webinar - What you need to know about moving your Apps

Friday 27th April 2012 11.00am - 12.00pm Cost: No Charge

Presented by Andrew Coates and Eric Phan - Microsoft Developer Evangelist

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 Microsoft Australia?s Andrew Coates as he discusses the benefits (and some of the pitfalls) of adopting the cloud as your platform. There will be lots of time for live questions.

Webinar Objectives

This webinar will provide the attendee with:

• A brief lap around the cloud options available to businesses
• An understanding of the benefits of moving your app to Windows Azure
• Ways of assessing whether moving to or adopting the cloud might be a good decision
• An understanding of the steps required for converting your applications to Windows Azure
• Ample time to ask questions from the presenter

About the Andrew and Eric Andrew Coates has been a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft in Australia since January 2004. Andrew is a regular presenter at TechEd both locally and internationally. Eric Phan is the ultimate Solution Architect. He is always on the cutting edge, using Microsoft's latest technologies before they are widely adopted. He also is a frequent presenter at usergroups and technical breakfasts where he shares his experiences using these technologies.

Featured Video:
Protecting your Web Apps from the Tyranny of Evil with OWASP

Troy Hunt recently presented at one of our Sydney .NET User Group sessions. If you missed this event, or wanted to see it again, you are able to view the presentation on SSWTV.

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.

Troy Hunt discusses:

• Why we need to talk more about web app security
• Who OWASP is and what are they doing for us
• The OWASP Top 10 web app security risks
• What each risk is
• Exploiting the risk
• Protecting against the risk

Watch the video on SSWTV

SharePoint 101 for Business Webinar -
What every business person should know about SharePoint 2010

Tuesday 1st May 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:

• An 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

About Marlon Marlon Marescia has hands on experience with Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET, SharePoint, Microsoft CRM and Office add-ins.

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3 Day Scrum Training - Intensive Developer Course

New 3 day format! Intensive 3-day Professional Scrum Developer course Cost: $2995 +GST PP Brisbane, Melbourne, San Francisco, Beijing, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Amsterdam, Cologne, Stuttgart/Munich, Zagreb

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.

Sydney 18 APR 2012		Perth 24 APR 2012
Canberra 8 MAY 2012		Adelaide 14 MAY 2012
Melbourne 23 MAY 2012		Brisbane 5 JUNE 2012
*NEW* Amsterdam, NL 3 JULY 2012		*NEW* Cologne, DE 10 JULY 2012
*NEW* Stuttgart/Munich, DE 17 JULY 2012		*NEW* Zagreb, HR 24 JULY 2012

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

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

A Modern Architecture Review - using the new Code Review tools

Adam Cogan (Australian Microsoft Regional Director and Scrum.org Trainer) will lead you through the 20 steps to achieve a 'Modern Architecture Review'.

During this session he will show how performing an architecture review on a big project, no longer needs to be daunting.

Adam will demonstrate the first steps, then finding patterns and anti-patterns, then you will see how Visual Studio 11 helps the process with architecture tools, code smell tools etc. that all enable you to attend to the code that needs the most attention. All this while creating TFS code review work items to speed great results of the review.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint and CRM solutions (with a splash of Business Intelligence).

At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, engineering, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Worley Parsons and Aurecon.

He runs the Sydney Dot Net User Group and is one of three Regional Directors for Microsoft.

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

3 Days to go! Canberra .NET User Group Monday 16th April 2012 6:00pm - 9:00pm Microsoft Canberra Branch Walter Turnbull Building Level 2, 44 Sydney Ave Canberra, Australia

A Modern Architecture Review - using the new Code Review tools

Adam Cogan (Australian Microsoft Regional Director and Scrum.org Trainer) will lead you through the 20 steps to achieve a 'Modern Architecture Review'.

During this session he will show how performing an architecture review on a big project, no longer needs to be daunting.

Adam will demonstrate the first steps, then finding patterns and anti-patterns, then you will see how Visual Studio 11 helps the process with architecture tools, code smell tools etc. that all enable you to attend to the code that needs the most attention. All this while creating TFS code review work items to speed great results of the review.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint and CRM solutions (with a splash of Business Intelligence).

At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, engineering, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Worley Parsons and Aurecon.

He runs the Sydney Dot Net User Group and is one of three Regional Directors for Microsoft.

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

Canberra .Net User Group proudly sponsored by:

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