User Groups
Saving the World One App at a Time – The Humanitarian Toolbox | Presented by Richard Campbell
Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks fame tells his story of software, hardware and charity that ultimately has led him to the Humanitarian Toolbox (htbox.org). The Humanitarian Toolbox is an open source initiative to build software for disaster relief – both for the Non-Governmental Organizations that are involved in disaster relief, the citizen volunteers that donate…
Read MoreGet ready for modern DevOps – Danijel Malik
Modern DevOps is a highway to greater business value and it works cross-platform. Automated deployments solved a handover problem, Application Monitoring Platforms closed the feedback and crash reporting gap, and containers made the “works on my machine” stereotype real. Next mission: automated environments. In this session, Danijel will start by identifying the common bad practices…
Read MoreSimplified Unit Testing with the Entity Framework Core InMemory Provider | Jason Taylor
In this talk, SSW’s Jason Taylor will show you how using the EF Core InMemory Provider will simplify your unit testing approach. He will discuss the typical approach versus the simplified approach, limitations, and other considerations. You will walk away ready to write simplified unit tests for systems that depend on EF Core.
Read MoreThinking About Serverless? Let’s Start With Azure Functions | Thiago Passos
What’s serverless? And why would you go serverless? Worry no more, these questions are answered by SSW’s Thiago Passos. Thiago will show you a great way to get started by using Azure Functions.
Read MoreAn Introduction to Data Science on Azure | Nick Wienholt
Microsoft Azure provides a rich canvas for data science research and execution. Two of the key components of the data science toolkit are Azure Notebooks and the Azure Machine Learning service. In this presentation, Nick will introduce the core concepts of data science and show how a data set can be imported, analysed and used…
Read MoreWhat’s New in Visual Studio 2017 + VS Code | Adam Cogan
Visual Studio 2017 is a great step forward for developer productivity. Thanks to a new/refreshing/cool/awesome change of attitude, Microsoft is embracing the winning tools in the development space and is building them into the next version of Visual Studio. The open sourcing of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core along with the release of the free…
Read MoreTechniques and practices for testing Angular 2 | Identity Server 4 with Angular 2 ASP.NET core
Session 1: Techniques and practices for testing Angular 2 with Duncan Hunter and Adam Stephensen Writing frontend tests has always been hard, let us show you how to make testing easier in your Angular 2 applications. From unit testing components and services to end-to-end testing your entire application, we will give you tips and techniques…
Read More.NET To The Power of R1: An Introduction to R Development Language – TJ Gokken
In this session, we will take a look at R from an introductory point of view and see how the power of R can be used by .NET developers.
Read MoreSearch Indexing: It’s your Data – But Faster | Brendan Richards
Ever wonder why Google can return results from billions of pages in a fraction of a second while your database query across mere thousands seems to drag? In this session we’ll show you how to really rock search by leveraging the capabilities of the top Open Source search index tools and libraries – either embedded…
Read MoreHanselman Unplugged 2 – Back Down Under
Scott Hanselman was in Australia as a special guest presenter at NDC Sydney. Scott was awesome enough to stop in at SSW to give a talk at an extra-special Sydney .NET users group. In this session, audience members were given the unique opportunity to ask any questions they wanted to Scott. Scott was incredibly “edutaining”…
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