SSW Update - Your last chance to get a ticket to the FireBootCamp gala day

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G'day Developers!

Your last chance to get a ticket to the FireBootCamp gala day

No news this month – we've been too busy preparing for the upcoming FireBootCamp gala morning, which is your chance to come and meet the FireBootCampers and see the great projects they created while training with us. The gala will be held at our Neutral Bay offices on Friday 21 March at 9am.

Check out some of the course highlights:
The SSW TV team have been with us every step of the way, capturing all the exciting moments of the course from inception to completion.

[Video] My announcement of the boot camp in November 2013
[Video] FireBootCamp week 1
[Video] FireBootCamp week 2
[Video] The FireBootCamp gala day video invitation

Resources:
See for yourself some of the great presentations that our guest mentors delivered to the students.

The Gala:
After 9 weeks of intense training, these "FireBootCampers" are the best candidates on the market. Come along, meet the guys, and put in an offer for the developer you want. Strike while the iron’s hot!

9am – 12pm AEDT, Friday March 21
Suite 13, 81-91 Military Rd, Neutral Bay Australia

Cost:
This gala day is entirely free.

Tickets:
Tickets are available at https://firebootcamp.com/gala/ – simply fill out the online form.

-Adam Cogan, SSW

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Become a World Class Developer in just 9 weeks with FireBootCamp!

Special Intensive Course

Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, San Francisco

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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Scheduled Boot Camps:

Sydney BootCamp #1 20th JAN 2014 – 21st MAR 2014	Brisbane BootCamp #1 7th APR 2014 – 6th JUN 2014
San Francisco BootCamp #1 23rd JUN 2014 – 22nd AUG 2014	Sydney BootCamp #2 23rd JUN 2014 – 22nd AUG 2014
Melbourne BootCamp #1 8th SEP 2014 – 7th NOV 2014	Munich BootCamp #1 15th SEP 2014 – 14th NOV 2014

Find out more and Register

Get Agile with 3 Day Scrum Training!

Intensive Professional Scrum Developer Course

Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide

Cost: $2,995 + GST

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:

Scrum

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.

Melbourne 7 APR 2014		Brisbane 16 JUNE 2014
Perth 23 JUNE 2014		Canberra 30 JUN 2014
Sydney 25 AUG 2014

Find out more and Register

Sydney .NET User Group

The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney

User Group

Sydney .NET User Group
Wednesday 19th March 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm
SSW Office
Gateway Court, Suite 13
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay NSW 2089

"Building and running a large scale service on Windows Azure – Behind the scenes of the Team Foundation Service" - Grant Holliday

In this session, we will take an exclusive look behind the scenes of the Team Foundation Service and explore what it takes to build and operate a large scale service on Windows Azure.

About the presenter:

Grant Holliday

Grant Holliday is a Senior Service Engineer for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Service. Team Foundation Service offers a version of Team Foundation Server hosted in Windows Azure, accessible from anywhere using existing and familiar tools, and supporting all languages and platforms. As a Service Engineer he works behind the scenes to keep the service up and running smoothly for customers around the world. Prior to this role, he travelled around Australia visiting customers and performing TFS and SQL health checks. He also spent three years in Redmond, Washington as a Program Manager in the TFS product group. He was responsible for the internal TFS server deployments at Microsoft, including the largest and busiest TFS server in the world used by Developer Division. Grant shares his experiences managing TFS at his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/

To see more details and RSVP, please visit our Facebook .NET Group, our LinkedIn .NET Group or our 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 SSW TV are now streaming our User Group sessions live. Each session will also be published on the SSW TV 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

NerdDinner - Where geeks eat
Wednesday 19th March y 2014
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

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

"Building and running a large scale service on Windows Azure – Behind the scenes of the Team Foundation Service" - Grant Holliday

In this session, we will take an exclusive look behind the scenes of the Team Foundation Service and explore what it takes to build and operate a large scale service on Windows Azure.

About the presenter:

Grant Holliday

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

Canberra .Net User Group proudly sponsored by:

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March 2014

Employment

ASP.NET MVC, Software Developer

SSW is looking for an enthusiastic .NET MVC (and some ASP.NET Web Forms) developer. Our ideal candidate will have strong skills designing and implementing ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms applications using C#, a good understanding of XML, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and a working knowledge of Agile software development methodologies (preferably Scrum).