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Webinar: Dev Superpowers - ASP .NET MVC

Getting started with Microsoft ASP.Net MVC5 - presented by David Burela

A longer session that will explore the how to create an ASP.NET MVC5 website with the latest tools.

During the session a new tracking app will be created from scratch and deployed to Microsoft Azure, ready for anybody to use. It will then take an extended look at each of the components:

• What the options effect during File -> New Project
• How MVC works
• Entity Framework 6 code first
• Nuget packages
• Responsive site with Twitter Bootstrap
• Microsoft Azure Websites

About the presenter:

More webinars coming soon:

• Dev Superpowers: Web API - Adding Web Api to an ASP .NET MVC website – Thursday 26th June
• Dev Superpowers: SignalR - Using SignalR for real time communications – Thusrday 24th July
• Dev Superpowers: Azure - Continuous deployment to Microsoft Azure websites – Thusrday 28th August

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.

Scheduled Boot Camps:

SSW news: Employees on tour

Learn ASP.NET MVC & Microsoft Azure with David Burela

SSW's newest employee David Burela, is the state manager for SSW.Melbourne and a Microsoft Azure MVP. He will be touring capital cities and presenting on ASP.NET MVC & Microsoft Azure during May & June. Sign up to one of the events to learn the latest development techniques.

• Melbourne – Sat 24th May
• Sydney – Sat 31st May
• Brisbane – Sat 14th June

If you miss out on his tour in person, you can still sign up for the Dev Superpower webinar sessions being hosted monthly by SSW TV!

Get Agile with 3 Day Scrum Training!

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.

Brisbane 16 JUNE 2014		Perth 23 JUNE 2014
Canberra 30 JUN 2014		Melbourne 5 AUG 2014
Sydney 25 AUG 2014

Sydney .NET User Group

The best place to learn .NET for free in Sydney

"Visual Studio and Telerik Platform: Mobile App Development Awesomesauce" - John Bristowe

Are you using Visual Studio? Of course you are. Are you wanting to build mobile apps? Of course you do. In this session, John Bristowe will show you the "peanut butter and chocolate" combination that is Visual Studio and Telerik Platform to build amazing mobile apps that cross-cut multiple platforms. Impress your friends! Inspire your co-workers! And, best of all, become the hero you were born to be!

Join John and your fellow members of the Sydney .NET User Group for this action-packed adventure through mobile app development hyperspace.

About the presenter:

John Bristowe (@JohnBristowe) is Principal Developer Advocate for Telerik. He likes long walks on the beach. He also likes helping developers be awesome. When he’s not building apps or writing docs, you’ll find him tweeting GIFs for the lulz.

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

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 19th May 2014 6:00pm - 8:00pm Microsoft Canberra Branch Level 4, 6 National Circuit Barton, Australia

"Activating your MSDN Azure Benefits" - Chris Birmele

Bring all your cloud questions to this session! Did you know that MSDN subscribers have Azure credits that they can use each month to deploy virtual machines, websites and cloud services? In this interactive session, Chris Birmele will give an overview of the services available with Microsoft Azure and a walkthrough of how to activate your MSDN benefits. You’ll see demos on how fast and easy it is to create your own development environments in the cloud, including: web sites, VMs, automating with PowerShell, connecting to on-premises services with Service Bus and load balancing cloud services.

About the presenter:
Chris Birmele is a Product Technology Specialist for Microsoft Australia, focusing on Visual Studio, TFS, Release & Test Manager and increasingly all things Azure. He has 20+ years’ experience with Microsoft, IBM, Rational Software, Compuware in a variety of technical roles. Originally from Zurich, Switzerland he enjoys travelling, photography and motorcycles.

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

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Senior SharePoint 2013 Developer - SSW Brisbane office

SSW is looking for an experienced and talented SharePoint developer who is passionate about implementing awesome SharePoint solutions. This role requires great communication skills and solid experience delivering production-ready SharePoint solutions.
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