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Building a Sitefinity croquembouche in just 4 weeks. Beautiful Style, Cracking Performance

The new APA website
Figure: SSW sent the APA website live 28th July 2014

OK it was not a croquembouche, but it was a beautiful website designed and delivered in just 4 weeks. It was designed with enough pizzazz to support a national advertising campaign.

At SSW, we love a challenge. Clients give us a chance to flex our creative and problem-solving muscles, and think outside the box to create solutions. So when we took on the creation of the Australian Patisserie Academy's website, we were thrilled with the opportunity to race against the clock to make something great, while meeting the extremely strict requirements of:

  • a 4 week deadline
  • a site that was both sexy and scalable
  • powered by a user friendly CMS

Combining some of our best technologies, including Sitefinity, practices, and teams, we were able to achieve all of the requirements, and the clients were delighted with the result.

If the site looks familiar, maybe you saw it on TV – the site was featured on several programs, including Better Home and Gardens (Channel 9), and Lyndey Milan's program on the Lifestyle Food Channel (Foxtel).

Keep reading to find out how we did it.

-Adam Cogan, SSW

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New SSW TV video!

How to choose the best developer bootcamp

In this interview Marlon Marescia from FireBootCamp interviews Jonathan Lau from SwitchUp.org on:

  1. Jonathan's experience attending a coding bootcamp
  2. How to choose the right boot camp to attend
  3. The pros and cons of coding boot camps
  4. Which platform to learn when starting to code

Webinar: Dev Superpowers - Bootstrap

Bootstrap and ASP.NET MVC - presented by Ben Cull

Beautiful and consistent web application design

Thursday 28th August
11.00am - 12.00pm AEST
Cost: No Charge

Register Now

Bootstrap is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development. Join Ben as he shows you how easy it is to make use of the framework, and step beyond the "just another bootstrap site" look and feel.

About the presenter:

Ben Cull

Ben Cull is a Software Architect for http://ssw.com.au.

When he's not coding a million start-up ideas or babbling on his blog over at http://benjii.me, you can find him brewing more beer than he can drink.

More webinars coming soon:

New course: Advanced T-SQL, Programming and Tuning for SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012

Presented by Itzik Ben-Gan

The course focuses on writing and tuning queries and programming with T-SQL in SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012. Along the course, you will learn how to use T-SQL to solve practical problems.

You will learn how to tune your queries, how to develop efficient routines including user defined functions, stored procedures and triggers, work in multi-user environments with transactions and isolation levels, and use dynamic SQL securely and efficiently.

You will also learn how to maintain and query hierarchical data. Moreover, query tuning is in the heart of this course and is incorporated in the different modules throughout the course. With each querying/programming problem the discussions will revolve around logical aspects, set-based vs. procedural programming and optimization of the solutions.

Start date: Monday, October 27
Length: 5 day course
Early bird price: $2,765 + GST
Interstate early birds: If you are from Melbourne or Brisbane and want to attend, we will fly you to Sydney for free. You will be responsible for your own accommodation.

Register Now

About the presenter:


Itzik Ben-Gan

Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Co-Founder of SolidQ. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of several books including Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 High-Performance T-SQL Using Window Functions. He has written many articles for SQL Server Pro as well as articles and whitepapers for MSDN. Itzik's speaking activities include TechEd, DevWeek, SQLPASS, SQL Server Magazine Connections, various user groups around the world, and SolidQ's events to name a few. Itzik is the author of SolidQ's Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning and T-SQL Fundamentals courses along with being a primary resource within the company for their T-SQL related activities.

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

Special Intensive Course

FireBootCamp

Redmond, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, San Francisco

Looking to hire a .NET developer?
Come and meet the latest BootCampers when they graduate September 19
- Get your free ticket today

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:

Redmond, WA, USA
6th Oct - 5th Dec 2014
Sydney, NSW, Australia
19th Jan - 20th Mar 2015
Redmond, WA, USA
26th Jan - 20th Mar 2015
Redmond, WA, USA
20th Apr - 12th Jun 2015
Redmond, WA, USA
29th Jun - 31st Aug 2015

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 20th August 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm
SSW Office
Gateway Court, Suite 13
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay NSW 2089


"What's New in Visual Studio + ALM"- Adam Cogan

The latest versions of Visual Studio and TFS are packed full of great new tools. Among the highlights are improved tools for Windows Phone 8.1 and Microsoft Azure, tooling support for Apache Cordova, ASP.NET vNext preview, the great new TFS Rest API, Application Insights and well as a bunch of cross-platform additions to make the mobile development experience fantastic. Come along and check out how you should be building your next application.

About the presenters:

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.

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

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

Watch the Live stream!

Live stream

Tune in from anywhere!

Sydney .NET User Group Live
6PM AEST (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

NerdDinner - Where geeks eat
Wednesday 20th August 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:

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Canberra .NET User Group

The best place to learn .NET for free in Canberra

User Group Canberra .NET User Group
Monday 18th August 2014
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Microsoft Canberra Branch
Level 4, 6 National Circuit
Barton, Australia

"What's New in Visual Studio + ALM"- Adam Cogan

The latest versions of Visual Studio and TFS are packed full of great new tools. Among the highlights are improved tools for Windows Phone 8.1 and Microsoft Azure, tooling support for Apache Cordova, ASP.NET vNext preview, the great new TFS Rest API, Application Insights and well as a bunch of cross-platform additions to make the mobile development experience fantastic. Come along and check out how you should be building your next application.

About the presenters:

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.

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

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Canberra .NET User Group proudly sponsored by:

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Advertise with SSW

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SSW Update

August 2014

Employment

Senior SharePoint 2013 Developers

Brisbane or Sydney

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.
SSW has been the leading Microsoft technology company in Sydney for 21 years. We require an enthusiastic Senior SharePoint developer to start at our Brisbane or Sydney branch ASAP.

Read more and APPLY NOW...

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