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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica | Adam Cogan's Analysis
Quick analysis of the Cambridge Analytica scandal currently facing Facebook.
Read MoreOffice 2019 will only work on Windows 10 + what’s the difference between an MSI and Click To Run? | Adam Cogan
Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10. We also cover Windows installer technologies; what’s the difference between an MSI and Click To Run?
Read MoreMarriage Equality Act Australia – Interesting data results using Power BI
In this short video watch Peter Myers use Microsoft Power BI to visualize the Australian Marriage Equality Act voting data. Warning: the Australian Bureau of Statistics gave Aussies a pretty .xls file that could not be analyzed easily. They should provide a nice plain .csv file that can easily be sucked into Power BI
Read MoreFrom UX to CX – Improving the Customer Experience with Adam Cogan
From UX to CX: a deep dive into improving the Customer Experience – and a hello to Zendesk, HotJar and Intercom – presented by Adam Cogan Customers want more than a good UI. They expect a good user experience but now the focus is on giving the customer a great ‘Customer Experience’. Companies like AirBnB,…
Read MoreAzure HotShots – The Azure bits you didn’t know you needed to know | Thiago Passos
Azure is big. Really big. There are more than 60 different products that make up Azure and knowing which to invest time in is a serious challenge. This presentation gives you a very brief introduction to the parts of Azure you may have missed, so that when the time comes – you know about the…
Read MoreSaving 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…
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