How to market yourself as a developer | John Sonmez
Developers tend to underestimate the impact and importance of marketing themselves. In this video you will learn how to use effective marketing tools to boost your presence and help to better your career. John Sonmez has quite a remarkable career. He’s the founder of Simple Programmer, a website dedicated to teaching developers how better market themselves. He…
Using Virtualisation to Debug Mobile Applications | Craig Woollett
Virtualisation is the core of cloud technology but it also provides an opportunity for developers to simulate production environments for ease of testing and debugging. This presentation demonstrates debugging Web API for an Android mobile application using Genymotion and Visual Studio as part of a virtual test network. Also there will be a demonstration of…
Becoming a .NET Developer | Duncan Hunter
Dreaming of a new career? Duncan Hunter was a FireBootCamp Student that went from dietitian to professional .NET developer in 9 weeks. Watch this inspirational and motivational story about changing careers and following your passion.
Project Management with Visual Studio Online | Dev Superpowers Episode #5 | Damian Brady
In this session Damian Brady (SSW Solution Architect) will show you how to use Visual Studio Online to manage all aspects of your development project. Topics covered include: Getting started with visualstudio.com Source control features Agile project management features Team collaboration features Development and testing Application deployment Monitoring your application Pricing Sign up now to be…
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 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]