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| The Microsoft Band 2 user experience: who would have thought sleep could be so interesting? |
| Microsoft recently released their second fitness tracker, the Microsoft Band 2, and as both a fitness enthusiast and a tech guy, I was excited to test it out. I haven't tried the original Microsoft band, but I have tried several of the FitBit releases, and am familiar with the Samsung Gear S, so I was keen to see how this device would measure up. |
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| I picked up a bundle of bands at the new Microsoft store to give to the guys at SSW. It's been enlightening to hear everybody's experiences over the last month. Of course, they've all had different scenarios and each have given different opinions of the quirks and foibles of the device. This review brings together their feedback as well as my own – the good and the bad. |
| Keep reading to find out how the Microsoft Band 2 stacks up. |
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| VIDEO: Past, Present and Future of MONO with Miguel de Icaza |
| In this video, Adam Cogan talks to the creator of Xamarin – Miguel de Icaza – about MONO, Miguel's original invention that dealt with cross platform development. Watch video. |
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| Mastering ReSharper |
| Being a great professional requires from you to write high quality code and being fast at the same time. Unless you have a great toolset this certainly isn't an easy task. Luckily the market is full of extensions for Visual Studio which can boost your productivity. Read more |
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| FireBootCamp is an intensive 9-week program designed to make you "job ready". Participants learn, work and code together for 10-12 hours per day, 5 days a week, building a .NET application with an experienced mentor. Read More |
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| Xamarin Hack Days are free events that make it easy for anyone to learn cross-platform development using Xamarin, a product that allows you to use .NET/C# to create native apps that will run across Android, iOS, and Windows. Read More |
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Melbourne, Australia |
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Zagreb, Croatia |
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| December User Group - Sydney |
| IoT/Win10 double header event - featuring Dave Glover and Chris Briggs |
| For a special December treat, we've got 2 passionate guys presenting on everything IoT + Win10. |
| Windows Internet of Things development starts to sizzle – Learn the Universal Windows Platform - Chris Briggs |
| Windows 10 is here and will be powering a billion devices shortly. The attendees will learn how to develop IoT applications that target Windows 10 IoT core, by developing on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and how to integrate the solution with Windows Azure. Read more. |
| Windows 10 for IoT: What is it and how do you develop for it - Dave Glover |
| Windows 10 for IoT Microsoft brings the Universal Windows Platform app development to the amazing Raspberry Pi 2 and MinnnowBoard Max devices and that opens up a whole world of new opportunities. This is a technical developer session starting from first principles of IoT devices, programming languages and high level app support. It'll be fun, there will be plenty of bright lights and hopefully you'll be inspired to go out and build. |
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| About the presenters |
| Chris Briggs is a Senior Software Developer at SSW, passionate about IoT, Scrum, Security, Windows Universal Apps and Xamarin. All the Devs at SSW have been asking Chris, what he thinks the Internet of Things will mean for their day to day lives? It ranges from the impossible to the improbable, from automating their coffee breaks, to telling them exactly when the next bus will arrive!
Dave Glover has worked for Microsoft for over 20 years mostly in our Developer Platform Group, the first 10 years were with Microsoft UK and he transfer to Microsoft Australia in 2004. He has worked in various roles including people management and across a broad spectrum of infrastructure and developer technologies with a variety of customers and partners. |
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SSW Sydney
Gateway Court Suite 15
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay
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| SSW and Octopus Deploy invite you to join us for pizza! It's a fun and delicious opportunity for networking with peers and sharing thoughts after the Sydney .NET User Group. Read More |
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SSW Sydney
Gateway Court Suite 15
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay
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| Sydney .NET User Group and NerdDinner proudly sponsored by: |
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| December User Group - Canberra |
| Windows Internet of Things development starts to sizzle – Learn the Universal Windows Platform |
| Windows 10 is here and will be powering a billion devices shortly. The attendees will learn how to develop IoT applications that target Windows 10 IoT core, by developing on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and how to integrate the solution with Windows Azure. |
| In this presentation, Chris Briggs, who heads up IoT at SSW, will teach the attendees how to take advantage of the Universal Windows Platform. The familiar .NET platform now empowers developers do more with less work by building one solution across half a dozen hardware platforms. Read more. |
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| Presented by Chris Briggs |
| Chris Briggs is a Senior Software Developer at SSW, passionate about IoT, Scrum, Security, Windows Universal Apps and Xamarin. All the Devs at SSW have been asking Chris what he thinks the Internet of Things will mean for their day to day lives. It ranges from the impossible to the improbable, from automating their coffee breaks, to telling them exactly when the next bus will arrive! |
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Microsoft Canberra
Level 4, 6 National Circuit
Canberra
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