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Good evening all, it is with great pleasure to announce the next Gold Coast .Net user group meeting for the year!
For those who couldn't attend the previous meetings, we had discussed creating some social groups to try and make running this group a little easier and keep the communication flowing after events. You'll find the links to these in the "Link Love" side bar. I encourage you all to sign up, and please RSVP using the mechanisms, or please send me an email to help estimate the amount of pizzas by our good sponsor. Given the awesome turnout to the last events, we'd like to be prepared!
Steven Nagy is coming down from Brisbane to help us through: Windows Azure Web and Worker Roles, Windows Azure Storage, SQL Azure, .Net Service Bus, Developer Fabric and local debugging, deployment.
Steven currently works at Readify, and maintains an azure / cloud services related blog over at Above The Cloud.
I'm look forward to seeing all of you. Bring your thinking caps for what you would like to see this user group doing in future, after all, it's your group. Feel free to contact me anytime, about anything. Anyone looking to kick-on afterwards, a few of us usually head over to the Parkwood Tavern.
Cheers Shea Strickland
Good morning all, it is with great pleasure to announce the first Gold Coast .Net user group meeting for the year!
In 2010 we’re going to see a new wave of Office and SharePoint technology, Working in the collaboration space for over 10 years, Adam Clark from Sharing Minds is a SharePoint veteran. In this session Adam will provide an overview of what is coming this year, how it’s going to impact you and where you can find more information. In this session, we’ll take a brief look at SharePoint 2010, how it can work for your organisation and give you a few keys to getting you on the road to developing components for these great 2010 applications
A veteran of the collaboration industry, Adam Clark has been working with SharePoint technology since its introduction to the market. Having worked for some of the most influential technology services firms in the market today. Adam currently works at Sharing Minds.
I'm look forward to seeing all of you tonight. Bring your thinking caps for what you would like to see this user group doing in future, after all, it's your group. Feel free to contact me anytime, about anything. Anyone looking to kick-on afterwards, a few of us usually head over to the Parkwood Tavern.
Good morning all, it is with great pleasure to announce the next Gold Coast .Net user group meeting for the year!
Having worked as a database guy and a developer gives Geoff the opportunity to expound the best use for SSIS for a developer. At the Gold Coat .net group he will cover:
Geoff Orr has been developing Object Oriented database systems for longer than he cares to remember. Working extensively with database and reporting systems he currently works as a BI consultant. As anyone working with data warehouses he uses SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) all day long. Geoff currently works with Wardy IT in Queensland and Angry Koala in Sydney.
I look forward to seeing all of you this Tuesday. Bring your thinking caps for what you would like to see this user group doing in future, after all, it's your group. Feel free to contact me anytime, about anything. Anyone looking to kick-on afterwards, a few of us usually head over to the Parkwood Tavern.
P.S. Can the people who nominated for a lightning talk last meeting please contact me, also anyone else interested in a 10-15minute lightning talk about anything "dev" which interests them.
For those who couldn't attend the last meeting, we discussed creating some social groups to try and make running this group a little easier and keep the communication flowing after events. You'll find the links to these in the "Link Love" side bar. I encourage you all to sign up, and please RSVP using the mechanisms, or please send me an email to help estimate the amount of pizzas by our good sponsor. Given the awesome turnout to the last event, we'd like to be prepared!
The July meeting will see SQL MVP, Peter Ward come along and show us how you can use Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (Datadude) to streamline database development.
Peter will demonstrate how Datadude can be used in the database development process whilst improving collaboration and integration with the rest of the development team.
Specifically, you will see many of the great features Datadude offers including;
Peter Ward is WARDY IT Solutions (www.wardyit.com) Chief Technical Architect. Peter is an active member in the Australian SQL Server community and President of the Queensland SQL Server User Group. Peter is a highly regarded speaker at SQL Server events throughout Australia and is a sought after SQL Server consultant and trainer, providing solutions for some of the largest SQL Server sites in Australia. In the last year Peter was selected as a speaker for Tech-Ed North America, New Zealand and Australia, he has also been selected as a Spotlight speaker for the SQL Pass Community Summit, the largest SQL Server event in the world. Peter has been awarded as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his technical excellence and commitment to the SQL Server Community.
I look forward to seeing all of you this Thursday. Bring your thinking caps for what you would like to see this user group doing in future, after all, it's your group. Feel free to contact me anytime, about anything. Anyone looking to kick-on afterwards, a few of us usually head over to the Parkwood Tavern.
Good evening all, it is with great pleasure to announce the next Gold Coast .Net user group meeting! I'd like to thank everyone for their kind emails, and interest in kicking the user group back into gear. I've been working in Sydney since September last year and arrived back two weeks ago. I'm really looking forward to putting a lot of focus back into the group.
No sooner did I get back, did Anthony Borton offer to give a talk on an excelent topic. He also has an awesome promotion going at the moment for attendees, which I recommend you check out via the link below, and get along on Thursday!
This month’s Gold Coast .NET SIG meeting looks at the recently released Microsoft Visual Studio® Team Test 2010 Beta 1 product and how it can drastically reduce the “find and fix” time for bugs that are raised by your testers. Today, significant time is often wasted trying to reproduce bugs with limited success and labelling bugs as “No-repro” can be frustrating for both testers and developers.
Microsoft’s new Test and Lab Manager Application allows testers to create, manage and execute tests quickly and easily in a dedicated user interface. Using Test Cases, Test Suites and Test Plans, testers will find the new features allow them to better participate as a full team member in Visual Studio Team System.
The session will touch on the following features of the Visual Studio Team Test 2010 product.
Anthony Borton is a Development Process Specialist for Enhance ALM Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in Application Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since 2005. Anthony has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from just 3 employees up to some of Australia’s largest companies and financial institutions. Anthony is the lead Microsoft Technical Readiness Instructor in Australia for Microsoft Visual Studio and has presented at the Microsoft launch events for both VSTS2005 and VSTS2008. Anthony is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Certified Scrum Master and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He is also the president of the QLD VSTS users group and maintains a blog at http://www.myvstsblog.com
I look forward to seeing all of you this Thursday. Bring your thinking caps for what you would like to see this user group doing in future, after all, it's your group. Feel free to contact me anytime, about anything.