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Scott Hanselman on Windows Azure and Visual Studio 2013

In a special presentation at the Sydney .Net Users Group, Scott Hanselman talked openly and candidly about all things Microsoft, specifically on Windows Azure and Visual Studio 2013.

You also see Hanselman dig into the open source SDKs of Windows Azure and discuss the future of Open Source. You’ll see him access Azure from the command line and deploy and redeploy with Git.

Scott will fire up Linux VMs, setup Mongo and run node.js apps in the cloud. His presentations will also look at things like SendGrid and New Relic. The future of the cloud is open and it’s a hybrid. Scott also discusses ways to penny pinch in the cloud and how our mindset needs to change if the cloud is to save us money.

Scott takes a funny, interactive and entertaining approach to presenting in this video. It’s a great watch for anyone who’s into Microsoft technologies and wants to hear from someone who has deep and thoughtful insights in the future of Microsoft and the development world.

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Cost: $6,000 + GST

The FireBootCamp program is an intensive, full-time, 9-week program. Participants learn, work and code together for 10-12 hours per day, 5 days a week. There are exercise and food breaks, but for the main the program is continual hands-on learning.

The program focuses on real world skills including Agile software development practices, enterprise architecture, application life cycle, end-to-end testing and user interface design. The technology stack covers .NET MVC, TypeScript, JavaScript & jQuery and uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2013.

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Intensive Professional Scrum Developer 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.

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 on site by appointment.

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Sydney .NET User Group

The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney

"No Estimates - Stop lying to yourself and your customers, and stop estimating" – Gerard Beckerleg

After his hugely successful session last year (the video received more than 25,000 views on YouTube) Gerard Beckerleg is back to take on one of the most divisive topics in software: estimation.

Gerard Beckerleg will take a dive into the depths of this controversial topic and extract the most interesting ideas and raise some very difficult questions about the big white elephant in the room that is Software Estimation.

After examining the pros and cons of estimation Gerard will lay the blueprint for a better way to help you and your clients get what they are really looking for.

About the presenter:
Scrum guru Gerard Beckerleg has been a Solution Architect at SSW in Sydney since 2011. Although he specialises in Web applications, Gerard has extensive experience in Microsoft.NET and loves working with C#, MVC, SQL Server, Umbraco, Kendo UI and SharePoint. He also lists Scrum and Agile practices as a passion. Using these skills and frameworks, Gerard has brought to life a raft of successful projects, such as Toll, Sydney Airports, McDonalds, Event Cinemas, and National Australia Day Council.

An established and confident speaker and trainer, Gerard has delivered numerous courses including SharePoint 2013 and .NET MVC at the University of Technology in Sydney, and is also a regular speaker at the Sydney and Canberra .NET User Groups.

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

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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.

Then join us at the NerdDinner

Where nerds meet and eat

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.

Canberra .NET User Group

The best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra

Canberra .NET User Group Monday 17th February 2014 6:00pm - 8:00pm Microsoft Canberra Branch Level 4, 6 National Circuit Barton, Australia

"No Estimates - Stop lying to yourself and your customers, and stop estimating" – Gerard Beckerleg

After his hugely successful session last year (the video received more than 25,000 views on YouTube) Gerard Beckerleg is back to take on one of the most divisive topics in software: estimation.

Gerard Beckerleg will take a dive into the depths of this controversial topic and extract the most interesting ideas and raise some very difficult questions about the big white elephant in the room that is Software Estimation.

After examining the pros and cons of estimation Gerard will lay the blueprint for a better way to help you and your clients get what they are really looking for.

About the presenter:
Scrum guru Gerard Beckerleg has been a Solution Architect at SSW in Sydney since 2011. Although he specialises in Web applications, Gerard has extensive experience in Microsoft.NET and loves working with C#, MVC, SQL Server, Umbraco, Kendo UI and SharePoint. He also lists Scrum and Agile practices as a passion. Using these skills and frameworks, Gerard has brought to life a raft of successful projects, such as Toll, Sydney Airports, McDonalds, Event Cinemas, and National Australia Day Council.

An established and confident speaker and trainer, Gerard has delivered numerous courses including SharePoint 2013 and .NET MVC at the University of Technology in Sydney, and is also a regular speaker at the Sydney and Canberra .NET User Groups.

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

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