Presentations
7 Deadly Presentation Sins with Andrew & Samantha Coates
What makes a great presentation? More importantly, what are the elements that can destroy a great presentation, even if the content itself is technically sound? In this session Samantha and Andrew Coates demonstrate seven sins that must not be committed in a presentation, why and how a presentation can suffer from committing them, and how…
Read MoreThousands of concurrent connections with Azure SignalR Service
As much as everyone loves having real-time applications, it is a pain to have them in high traffic websites. Scaling is a big issue which can be easily solved by using Azure’s SignalR Service. How can we add real-time functionality to cloud hosted web applications? How can we test and handle high traffic volume without…
Read MoreClean Code with Entity Framework Core | Brendan Richards
Object Relational Mappers like EF Core exist to take the drudgery out of getting your Object-Orientated C# code to talk to a relational database. Opinions on this vary from “ORMs are the Vietnam of Computer Science” to “If you write data access code, you are stealing from your client”. Like any powerful tool, EF Core…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Azure Developer Course (8 parts) – Dev SuperPowers Azure Tour
This feature packed series is designed to bring developers up-to-speed on the new features and benefits of using Microsoft Azure to build awesome cloud-based applications. At SSW we have already gone through the hard work of learning how to implement apps on Azure and we will be showing you everything you need to know in…
Read MoreMachine Learning simplified for Developers with ML.NET – Jernej “JK” Kavka
Microsoft recently launched ML.NET 1.1 which is a great entry point for .NET developers and to gain experience building something with Machine Learning. With the recent release of ML.NET Model Builder, we can create machine learning models by attempting to import raw data first and over time curate the data, to get better results. JK…
Read MoreChinafy your apps + Lessons you can steal from China | Adam Cogan
Adam Cogan will talk about his experience getting applications ready for the Chinese market. About the presenter: Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint, Business Intelligence, and CRM solutions. Certified Scrum Trainer with scrum.org, Adam trains developers in Australia, the US, UK and Europe,…
Read MoreMicrosoft Teams Revealed – Getting a Group of People to Work Together
Take charge of communication in your Team and get started with Microsoft Teams. This video will guide you through your first few steps with Teams using the simple example of a building at 81 Military Road. Teams offers a great solution to collaboration using the Office 365 platform. Get ready for a productivity boost, better…
Read MoreRapidly Producing Real World IoT Projects – presented by Peter Cole [Microsoft]
Peter was given the challenge of producing a low cost customer tracking solution for the Microsoft Technology Centre in Sydney. The team was astounded at how he made a working prototype in just 3 days, using open source technology, RFID tags and Azure IoT services. Watch this presentation and see how you can do it…
Read MoreAvoiding Agile Anti-patterns with #NoProjects and #AgileManagementTransformation
Agile project methodologies are widely adopted by the IT industry, but the project failure rates remain consistent. John will share his experience of common Systemic Agile anti-patterns, examine the underlying causes of these failures and present remedies in order to #MakeAgileGreatAgain.
Read MoreAzure Functions and the future of Serverless in the Enterprise | Jeff Hollan [Microsoft]
Serverless hit the ground running with plenty of excitement, skepticism, and conversation. Hear from the product manager lead for the Azure Functions runtime on where serverless has succeeded today, it’s shortcomings, and where it is headed for tomorrow.
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