Join us on
Tuesday, June 9th in Ft. Lauderdale for a night of fun and
sophistication as we make smart connections and enjoy wine tasting. Our
networking gurus taught us to build relationships and network
exchanges. To put into practice and
succeed in today's business climate, WITI knows that smart women need
to make smart connections...this continuing series offers our members
and guests and environment that is Structured to Maximize your
Advantage with the Right Technology Connections (SMART).
Join us for an
evening of structured and facilitated networking and make the most of
your exchange with others while we sip fabulous wine!
PinkSlip Shows Us How To Use Sales Techniques To Sell Ourselves To Employers
Join us on
Wednesday, June 10th in Ft. Lauderdale as a panel of experts shows us
how to sell ourselves to potential employers. When you are e-mailing
or interviewing with a prospective manager, you are selling YOU. You
are the product. The problem is very few of us have any formalized
sales training. Learn real-world tactics from top sales professionals
on how to outsell the other candidates and get "the product of YOU"
hired!
Join us on
Thursday, June 11th in Boca Raton and learn the Business Intelligence
features in SQL Server by going through an exam interactively with
David Cobb, MCITP: Database Administrator. Not only will you learn the
Business Intelligence features of SQL Server through explained answers,
you can also prepare for the certification exam if you want to take
it. These exam questions are great and will absolutely prepare you for
the questions ont he exam.
.Net Tiki Hut Shows Us IE8 and Windows 7 For Developers
Join us on
Monday, June 15th in Ft. Lauderdale as Microsoft's Jeff Barnes and Joe
Healy show us IE8 and Windows 7 for Developers. The first session,
Developing on Windows 7 Building applications that are easy to use,
visually appealing, and offer high performance is something that
developers face every day. Joe will break it down and show us how
Windows 7 makes it easy for developers. Jeff Barnes will keep things
going with the second session and show us what's new in Internet
Explorer 8 for Developers. Jeff will first show us how developers and
users both benefit from improved standards-based rendering in IE8 and
how developers can ensure that their sites will render properly for
users using IE8. Additionally, we'll take a look at some of the new
features of IE8 that open up new possibilities for web developers,
including Accelerators, Web Slices, and Search Providers, as well as
AJAX and DOM improvements. See you there!
Join us on Wednesday, June 17th at Nova Southeastern University in Davie as Brett Lonsdale shows us the 5 services that the Business Data Catalog (BDC) in SharePoint provides. These include BDC Web Parts, BDC Search, Business Data Field Type, BDC User Profiles, and the BDC API. We will be exploring how to customize the BDC Web Parts as well as configure them. We'll also explore other opportunities such as customizing the BDC Search and the Business Data Column. This meeting is ideal for Information Workers, Developers, and IT Pros.
Join us on Thursday, June 18th in Ft. Lauderdale for breakfast and/or W. Palm Beach for lunch as we talk about the Economics of IT Storage. We'll help you understand the true costs of your storage and your options for reducing those costs over time. There are two sessions for your convenience - a Breakfast seminar in Ft. Lauderdale and a Lunch seminar in W. Palm Beach.
Learn about best-in-class activities and initiatives that IT departments around the country have implemented to reduce their operating cost for data management and storage resources. Talk with other IT professionals and discuss how they are maximizing their investments in technology to achieve a good ROI, enable new business, or establish a technological advantage. Cold Creek Solutions' CTO, Bob Spina, will even talk about hwo his vendor-independent workshops and assessments have helped his clients make significant improvements to their storage economics. This meeting is ideal for CIOs, IT Directors, IT Managers, Storage Directors, and System Managers. With the state of today's economy, every little bit helps - this is not an event to miss!
Silverlight To Explain How To Build Business Apps With Silverlight 3& RIA Services
Join us on Thursday, June 18th as Miami Users Group and the South Florida Silverlight User Group team up to show you how to Build Business Apps with Silverlight 3 and RIA Services. David Silverlight's presentation will give us an intensive walk through the creation of a Simple Business application in Silverlight using .NET RIA Services, including everything from Membership, Roles, and Profiles to CRUD Forms, Validation, and Master Detail Forms. This will be a great presentation for anyone whom is interested in using Silverlight for Business and/or data driven applications.
Make your plans
now for KickStartz Weekend on June 18th-20th at DeVry University in
Miramar as we bring together brilliant minds to create incredible
products and businesses over a weekend. How many times have you wished
you had the time to follow through with a great idea? Consider
bringing your ideas(s) to KickStartz Weekend and get assistance from
your peers with its implementation! Our list of guest speakers this
year includes a who's who of entrepreneurs and industry professionals.
This is an event that you owe it to yourself to attend!
Terremark Lunch And Learn Event Series Continues With Two June Seminars
Join us in Miami on Thursday, June 18th and again on Wednesday, June 24th for two Lunch and Learn Event Series Seminars aimed at keeping you current on the latest security related technologies.
On Thursday, June 18th, we'll be hosting "Security Talk: Protecting Your Most Important Assets." This half-day Security Talk is focused to protecting your most important assets. Mainline and IBM will present crucial security technology in an easy-to-understand format for all audiences.
On Wednesday, June 24th, we'll be hosting another Lunch & Learn called "eDiscovery - Striking the Right Balance Between In-House and Outsourced Expertise". This seminar will update you on eDiscovery best practices that simplify parts of the process and make the solution more affordable as well as review the industry trends and much more!
Register now for a decent lunch and smarts you can use to keep your environment secure!
HDI S. Florida To Host Summer Doubleheader featuring UM's CIO and HDI's Executive Director
Join us on Tuesday, June 30th in Miami as HDS - South Florida continues its Inaugural Year celebration with its Summer doubleheader, featuring University of Miami CIO, Dr. M. Lewis Temares, and HDI's Executive Director of Certification & Training, Rick Joslin.
The Summer Doubleheader I will feature a discussion about Comaraderie and Staff Development: How to be a Top-Five Employer in the IT Industry. This discussion, led by Dr. Temares, will discuss the role and challenges of the CIO, having the right employees, and how to work in a new environment with new tools.
The Summer Doubleheader II will show you how to properly integrate capturing, structuring, and reusing knowledge into the incident management process. It will also demonstrate how this improves service effectiveness and efficiencies. Rick Joslin will also discuss the challenges of implementing knowledge management and how you can successfully get others to support this initiative, and MUCH MORE!
In recognition of the range and depth of knowledge and experience our two distinguished speakers bring to the table, we have expanded our schedule and will begin at noon and provide lunch. Two great speakers and topics like this don't come around too often at the same event so RSVP Today!
*** In keeping with the event's theme, we will raffle off several Marlins tickets! ***
Before it done blew up, Alderaan's world-wide favorite pastime
was flying kites. They had kites of everything imaginable - famous leaders,
droids, ships, and donuts (well, spacedonuts). Well, now the Alderaanians are
all space dust, but their love of flying lives on with these Star Wars
Starfighter Kites. Each ship is presented in all the kite detail that kites can
provide. You can choose from either Luke's X-Wing or Vader's Tie Fighter.
Imagine the peaceful, floaty dogfights as Darth chases Luke in the trench of a
cloudy-made Death Star. Just like the movies, but a lot more relaxing. We love
it, the Alderaanians loved it, and so will you. Winner receives their choice of
one of these great ships.
Chief Information Officers' third-quarter hiring plans remain the same as they were for the second quarter, but Chief Financial Officers remain cautious about bringing on more personnel, according to two surveys released today by Robert Half International, Inc.
Report - Feds Probing Tech Recruiting Concerns
The Washington Post reported the U.S. Justince Department began a probe into top tech companies Google, Inc., Yahoo, Apple, and Genentech over concerns they violated antitrust laws by agreeing not to recruit top talent from one another. The newspaper's report cited two unnamed sources.
Source: Staffing Analysts Daily News
Tips
10 Skills Developers Will Need In The Next Five Years
By, Justin James
Tech Republic.com
With the recent changes in the economy, a lot of developers are focused on their short-term prospects. At the same time, it's important to make sure that you get the most bang for your buck when it comes to taking the time and energy to learn new skills. Here is our list of 10 skills you should be learning right now to make sure that your resume is relevant for the next five years. For average mainstream development, you can't go wrong learnign at least seven of these skills - not only to the point where you can talk convincingly about them at a job interview, but actually use them on the job.
9: Development "Hygiene"
A few years ago, many (if not most) shops did not have access to bug tracking
systems, version control, and other such tools; it was just the developers and
their IDE of choice. But thanks to the development of new, integrated stacks,
like the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, and the explosion in availability
of high quality, open source environments, organizations without these tools are
becoming much less common. Developers must know more than just how to check code
in and out of source control or how to use the VM system to build test
environments. They need to have a rigorous habit of hygiene in place to make
sure that they are properly coordinating with their teams. “Code cowboys” who
store everything on a personal USB drive, don’t document which changes
correspond to which task item, and so on, are unwelcome in more traditional
shops and even more unwelcome in Agile environments, which rely on a tight
coordination between team members to operate.
10: Mobile Development
The late 1990s saw Web development rise to mainstream acceptance and then begin
to marginalize traditional desktop applications in many areas. In 2008, mobile
development left the launch pad, and over the next five years, it will become
increasingly important. There are, of course, different approaches to mobile
development: Web applications designed to work on mobile devices, RIAs aimed at
that market, and applications that run directly on the devices. Regardless of
which of these paths you choose, adding mobile development to your skill set
will ensure that you are in demand for the future.
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