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*NEW* ASP.NET MVC Webinar (Part 3)

Migrating to MVC without losing your Web Forms investment

Free Webinar Thursday 20th December 2012 11.00am - 12.00pm AEDT Cost: No Charge Add to my calendar

Presented by Damian Brady

MVC is a giant leap forward for ASP.NET developers and represents the best way to build new web applications. Unfortunately, not every project is a green fields project, and most organisations have at least a few applications running on Web Forms that need to be maintained.

Starting a brand new project in MVC is easy, but moving to MVC from an existing Web Forms application isn’t a trivial decision. It would be madness to ignore the years of investment you’ve already made in your Web Forms application. Even if you’re happy to throw all that old code away and start anew, is your manager similarly enthusiastic?

Nobody wants to be stuck on old technology, but you also don’t want to feel like you’ve wasted the last few years!

Are you looking to build websites that can run on desktop and mobile devices with little extra effort?

In this webinar, I’ll show you how you can move forward with ASP.NET MVC without losing the investment you’ve already made with Web Forms. You’ll be able to start working with the “new shiny” without incurring the wrath of your users and managers by rebuilding everything from scratch.

Webinar Objectives

• Why you should move to MVC and how to sell it to your manager
• Options for moving from Web Forms to MVC
• A migration strategy that’ll make everyone happy
• Ample time for Q&A

Online Webinar 20 DECEMBER 2012

3 Day Scrum Training is back! -

Intensive Professional Scrum Developer Course

Intensive 3-day Professional Scrum Developer course Cost: $2995 +GST PP Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra

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 14 JAN 2013		Sydney 25 FEB 2013
Adelaide 8 APR 2013		Melbourne 20 MAY 2013
Perth 1 JULY 2013		Canberra 12 AUG 2013

Video: SharePoint Saturday - Interviews:

Best new features of SharePoint 2013 + top tips from 4 SharePoint experts

In this fast paced video, Gerard Beckerleg – Solution Architect at SSW – took an opportunity to interview 4 SharePoint masters at this years’ SharePoint Saturday event in Sydney.

They offer some fantastic tips and describe the new features in SharePoint 2013 that excite them the most.

They discuss, in order of appearance:

Brian Farnhill (SharePoint Server MVP and SharePoint Saturday Sydney organizer)

• The new application development experience
• JavaScript, jQuery and knockout.js in SharePoint 2013

Michael Doyle – SharePoint Architect @ Waggener Edstrom

• Community Sites and gamification
• Social interaction in SharePoint 2013
• My Sites

John Liu – SharePoint Developer @ SharePoint Gurus

• InfoPath
• Rich Client Applications
• SharePoint 2013 and mobile devices
• JavaScript in SharePoint 2013
• SharePoint 2013 as an open platform

Ishai Sagi – CEO @ Extelligent Design

• Uploading images in SharePoint 2013
• The new Cross Site Publishing feature

Enterprise MVC Apps - 2 part course

Build real world applications from the ground up

The Model View Controller design pattern has been a proven and effective way of structuring applications for more than 30 years. In 2007, Microsoft introduced ASP.NET MVC to the world and since then, the framework has evolved into a mature and powerful way of writing dynamic web sites and powerful web applications.

ASP.NET MVC provides a great way of structuring your application, ensuring a clean separation of concerns, easy testability, and ultimate control over markup. It is quickly becoming the go-to framework for writing .Net web applications.

Enterprise MVC Apps Part I: Going beyond the demos

This course will introduce you to the latest version of ASP.NET MVC version 4. Throughout the course, attendees will be guided through building a full ASP.NET MVC application from scratch.

Read more about Enterprise MVC Apps Part I

Perth: Microsoft Facility MON 4 MARCH 2013
Adelaide: Microsoft Facility THU 7 MARCH 2013
Melbourne: Microsoft Facility FRI 8 MARCH 2013
Brisbane: Microsoft Facility TUE 12 MARCH 2013
Sydney: SSW Neutral Bay WED 13 MARCH 2013
Online: Webinar - Only $80 + GST WED 13 MARCH 2013

This sellout course series will be run at 5 capital cities around Australia. Dates for Part 2 will be announced next month.

The Australian SharePoint Conference 2013 is on!

You are invited! Listen to experts Learn best practices Connect with the SharePoint Community Get answers to your questions Gain the latest insights! Cost: $875 +GST

Got questions for the experts? Just getting started with SharePoint? Need inspiration to move your project forward? Looking to move on from file share chaos? Ready to learn more about SharePoint 2010 and 2013? Just want to head along to a great conference?

As a proud bronze sponsor, SSW would like to invite you to attend the SharePoint events of 2013!

Along with other great presenters, Adam will be speaking on some great features you can leverage in SharePoint 2013.

Your choice of two locations:

Sydney 10 & 11 April

Melbourne 11 & 12 June

These events are designed for anyone who wants to know more about SharePoint - business users, techy people and executives can mix and mingle with the best SharePoint MVPs, Microsoft personnel and experts from around the world.

Register now in order to get a spot!

Sydney - The Hilton 10 - 11 APRIL 2013
Melbourne - The Sebel Albert Park 11 - 12 JUNE 2013

Sydney .NET User Group -

The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney

5 Days to go! Sydney .NET User Group Wednesday 19th December 2012 6:00pm - 9:00pm SSW Head Office Gateway Court, Suite 13 81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay Add to my calendar

Eat Your Vegetables –Baking Healthy Projects with Unit Testing and Dependency Injection - Adam Stephensen

Unit testing and Dependency Injection are good for you, yet these essential ingredients are missing from many projects.

In this session we will look at why many projects still don't include unit tests, and some recipes for healthy projects that every coder should have in their recipe book.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Adam Stephensen is a Solutions Architect at SSW. He loves delivering high quality, scalable, database-driven enterprise solutions.

He has a passion for Scrum, Continuous Delivery, and software craftsmanship. This has led him to mentor and contribute to many .Net projects across a broad range of technologies.

Adam is currently excited by the multitude of new tools and platforms coming from Microsoft, especially Visual Studio 2012, TFS Preview and MVC 4. He also can't wait to get his hands on a Windows Phone 8 device.

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

Can't make it to the Sydney .NET User Group?

Watch the Live stream!

Tune in from anywhere! Sydney .NET User Group Live 6PM AEDT (UTC+11) The team at SSWTV are now streaming our User Group sessions live. Each session will also be published on the SSWTV site after the event so you can review what was said in the sessions.

SSW and Telerik NerdDinner

Where nerds meet and eat

5 days to go! NerdDinner - Where geeks eat Wednesday 19th December 2012 8:10pm - 9:30pm The Oaks Hotel 118 Military Road, Neutral Bay

SSW and Telerik invite you to join us for pizza at The Oaks. A fantastic opportunity for networking with peers and sharing thoughts after the Sydney .NET User Group presentation.

Sydney .Net User Group and NerdDinner 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 17th December 2012 6:00pm - 9:00pm Microsoft Canberra Branch Walter Turnbull Building Level 2, 44 Sydney Ave Canberra, Australia Add to my calendar

Eat Your Vegetables –Baking Healthy Projects with Unit Testing and Dependency Injection - Adam Stephensen

Unit testing and Dependency Injection are good for you, yet these essential ingredients are missing from many projects.

In this session we will look at why many projects still don't include unit tests, and some recipes for healthy projects that every coder should have in their recipe book.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Adam Stephensen is a Solutions Architect at SSW. He loves delivering high quality, scalable, database-driven enterprise solutions.

He has a passion for Scrum, Continuous Delivery, and software craftsmanship. This has led him to mentor and contribute to many .Net projects across a broad range of technologies.

Adam is currently excited by the multitude of new tools and platforms coming from Microsoft, especially Visual Studio 2012, TFS Preview and MVC 4. He also can't wait to get his hands on a Windows Phone 8 device.

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

Canberra .Net User Group proudly sponsored by:

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