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Introduction to iBeacons with Xamarin – Rod Howarth

Developers have been using GPS and WiFi location detection to enhance their mobile applications and reduce the amount of input required by users by detecting where the user is at a given point in time. However these location detection techniques can only give an accuracy of approximately 10 metres, and are unreliable when the user…

Top 3 Features of Xamarin 3 in Under 3 Minutes!

The release of Xamarin 3 brings a number of significant feature enhancements to create cross platform applications. In this short video, David Burela – SSW Solution Architect – looks at the top 3 features of Xamarin 3. Those features are: Shared projects Xamarin.iOS designer in Visual Studio Xamarin.Forms More information on this new release can…

Killing Kennedy – Building an award winning HTML5 site for the National Geographic Channel

Killing Kennedy – Building an Award Winning HTLM5 site for National Geographic

‘Kennedy and Oswald’ is an multi-award winning website built by the design and tech gurus at Mullen, a Advertisement agency based in Boston. The website is a companion site to a National Geographic film about the lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald and the lead up to the eventual assasination. The website…

FireBootCamp – Gala Day Highlights

SSW have developed a 9 week developer training course called FireBootCamp. The first course, which took place in Sydney, finished in April. At the end of every course we have a Gala Day to showcase the students and the work they’ve done. You can read more about the Gala Day on Adam Cogan’s blog and on…

Twitter in the Courtroom, Defamation and Copyright Infringement on Social Media – Tom Griffith

Piper Alderman Partner Tom Griffith explains how traditional laws of defamation apply on social media, and will discusses how courts have adapted to widespread use of social media, including in the courtroom. The talk will also covers Copyright and other intellectual property issues arising in social media. Take the Quiz! [WATUPRO 45]

Video thumbnail for youtube video Troy Hunt gives us the low down on Heartbleed in this short video

Heartbleed – Security Expert Troy Hunt speaks to SSW TV on Heartbleed

In this video Security Expert Troy Hunt speaks to SSW TV about the Heartbleed SSL ‘bug’ that is currently causing major concern for many companies and website owners across the world. Troy goes through the figures and explains how Heartbleed is effecting around 17% of websites. However, it’s not all doom and gloom according to…

Introduction to SEO and Google Tools – Craig Bailey [FireBootCamp]

If you want to get your website to the top of Google search results, then watch this video to learn from SEO Guru Craig Bailey who teaches the SSW FireBootCamper’s exactly how to do that with their own blogs and sites. Part 1 – Introduction to SEO A general introduction to SEO and where it…

SSW’s FireBootCamp – Week 2 in review video (Scrum Sprint Reviews)

The second video produced by SSW TV for SSW’s FireBootCamp, a new .NET training course in Sydney (and available in more locations.) Check out the video above to see how they did in their second week of the Boot Camp. You can read a more detailed breakdown of the week on the official FireBootCamp blog.

AngularJS and ASP .NET MVC Intro/Quickstart – Paul Glavich [FireBootCamp]

Week 2 of the Sydney FireBootcamp started with Paul Glavich speaking to our students on AngularJS. Paul is an ASP .NET MVP and the CTO of Saasu one of Australia’s largest online accounting services built on the .NET platform. AngularJS is a Javsscript framework that enables provides features such as two-way databinding and templating. It…