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Join us this Thursday, October 29th in Cooper City as Linxter brings us South Florida Tech Talk's October meeting, The four topics that will be covered include:
Developing with New Parallel Computing Technologies by Jeff Barnes, Architect | Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism. Learn about new parallel computing capabilities.
Startup Pitch — Jacob and Mike Russo will be presenting Imaging101, transforming paper documents and files into secure electronic images.
Contract and Full Time Opportunities and the Azure South Florida Users Group--- Alex Funkhouser of Sherlock Technology
Open Space — up to four ad hoc presentations and discussions. Open Space topic submissions are made at the start of the meeting.
Join us on Tuesday, November 3rd in Ft. Lauderdale as the Startup Business Boot Camp shows us how to turn an idea into business in 1 day! This event will teach you how to evaluate your business ideas and turn the ones that make the grade into a revenue generating business in 1 day. You will learn how to determine demand for a service or product before you even create it, how to realistically fund your business concept in today's economy, little known resources to find the hottest new business ideas and trends, A special hands-on exercise that will help you identify tons of business concepts residing within you that can be started in 1-2 days for next to nothing, and much more!
Join us on Saturday, November 7th in Tampa for the 5th Annual Tampa Code Camp. With over 40 sessions about everything from ASP.Net to ADO.Net to Silverlight to Facebook, there isn't a topic you don't want to miss. And with MVPs and Microsoft employees leading the sessions, the only challenge will be how to be in several sessions at once!
Don't forget about the afterparty with the speakers and attendees!
Join us on Tuesday, November 10th in West Palm as WITI discusses how to lay a green IT foundation for the future. Cloud Computing, Server and Desktop Consolidation and Virtualization, and Data Center Backup/Recovery/Archiving are all a part of laying a green IT Infrastructure and WITI will show you how to do it right.
Companies are being asked to quantify and reduce corporate energy use and environmental footprints, streamline supply chains, meet regulatory requirements and drive more energy-efficient operations. In short, organizations are being driven to adopt ‘green’ strategies. IT departments play a pivotal role in developing company’s direction with a green strategy and are therefore taking on projects to adopt newer technologies and update IT infrastructure in a manner that will impact the entire organization. IT is faced with the daunting task of streamlining network traffic, upgrading back-office systems, improving data center operations, and enabling virtualization without disrupting operations.
Join us on Thursday, November 12th in Boca as Joe Homnick, one of Microsoft's three Metro trainers in the Americas, discusses SharePoint 2010 features. Metro is a program that teaches independent software vendors the latest technologies before they ship. He'll be sharing his knowledge of new SharePoint 2010 features in this session.
SFIMA To Discuss Ecommerce Optimization: Last-minute Plays for the Holiday and Beyond
The holiday season is make-or-break time for most ecommerce marketers – even more so in a shaky economy.
Optimizing your site and marketing channels is your best bet. But you need to know which minor, last-minute changes can make the biggest impact on your ROI.
In this highly interactive session, we'll look at quick steps you should take to improve results, end the year on a high note, and start off 2010 strong.
Join us on Thursday, November 19th in Ft. Lauderdale for a special members-only event with Mark Templeton, President, CEO, and Director of Citrix Systems, Inc. Templeton will be available for the SFTA members to engage in an intimate discussion about technology trends, challenges and insights for the future. This event is a unique opportunity to get up close and conversational with Templeton. Sign-up today!
There is no cost to members to attend the event. However, as we approach the holiday season, SFTA will be sending non-perishable items to The Cooperative Feeding Program (CFP), a United Way agency dedicated to reducing hunger in Broward County.
Tiki Hut Roadshow To Feature Silverlight, Silverlight, And More Silverlight
Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd in Ft. Lauderdale as Russ Fustino and Joe Healy join forces for this special ‘Toolshed and Tacklebox’ edition of the MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow. With the ever expanding buzz around Silverlight 3, Russ and Joe have gotten a boatload of requests to dive deeper into what makes Silverlight 3 a "must have" skil set in your toolbox. They hear you and are back on the road to give you an entire afternoon dedicated to Silverlight!
Reservations are required, and seating is limited! Register today and reserve your seat.
15th Annual Gold Coast User Group Holiday Party Goes Caribbean
Join us on Friday, December 4th in Boca for the 15th Annual Gold Coast User Group Holiday Party. Microsoft's Russ Fustino and Stan Schultes will be hosting the meeting, which will center around the recording of an episode of Russ Fustino's Toolshed TV Show featuring well known speakers delivering up to 10 indispensable 10-15 minute Developer Tools sessions. We're changing the timing around so that meeting will take place between 2:30pm to 6:30pm. RSVPs will be requested to show before the start of the meeting at 2pm for a special SWAG throw out. So far the confirmed speakers and their potential sessions are:
Tim Huckaby-Surface/Touch SDK (maybe with a live Surface unit)
Ken Spencer-Windows Presentation Foundation Tips
Joe Homnick-SharePoint 2010 Developer Must Knows
Blain Barton-Windows 7.0 Developer Tricks
Shervin Shakibi-SQL Azure Tips
Paul Stubs-SharePoint 2010 Silverlight WebParts
Miguel Castro-ASP.Net 4.0 Highlights
Jason Milgram-Linxter SDK
Dave Noderer-TFS 2010 Source Control Management
This year's party will have a Caribbean theme and will start at 6:30. This is one of the best parties of the year and you don't want to miss it!
Join us in 2010 at the Sherlock Technology Offices in Miami Beach for the Azure South Florida Users Group. Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.
Now's your time to get stinkin' rich. Buy, sell and trade Quahog's prime real estate. From Cleveland's Deli and Mayor West's Mansion to Hugs & Kisses (the good kind) Daycare and the sovereign nation of Petoria - it's all up for grabs. Gouge your opponents every time they land on your property, build Homes and Mansions to fortify your Quahog empire and ultimately bankrupt your opponents. Do you have what it takes to claim world dominance? THIS GAME IS SWEET!
Family Guy Monopoly Winner:James Pendarvis27,000 Points
Seventeen percent of companies plan to add full-time staff in the fourth quarter, according to the fourth-quarter U.S. job forecast released Wednesday by CareerBuilder.com and USA Today. Another 10% will cut staff, 68% plan no change and 5% are undecided.
In the third quarter, 18% of companies said they added full-time staff, 15% cut staff, 65% reported no change and 1% were undecided at the time the survey was taken (between Aug. 20 and Sept. 9), according to the CareerBuilder.com survey.
Twenty-three percent of employers rehired employees laid off within the last 12 months in the third quarter. Another 19% plan to rehire laid-off employees in the fourth quarter. In addition, 5% of companies that reported pay cuts in the last 12 months restored pay to previous levels in the third quarter, and 12% plan to restore pay levels in the fourth quarter.
"Companies are switching their focus from cost containment to growth. Employers who have instituted pay cuts or layoffs in the last year are reporting that they have begun to restore compensation levels and rehire employees," said CareerBuilder.com CEO Matt Ferguson. "While these are positive indicators, the pace of hiring will remain restrained. It will take time to rebuild the confidence needed in the nation's economy to trigger more robust recruitment programs."
The survey included 2,924 hiring managers and human resource professionals in the private sector.
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Microsoft Store Opening in Southern California. Some really amazing perks available perks. Read more about how to find out about them.
View a video interview on uTube (http://tinyurl.com/yh86cvd ) with the CEO of Ryder Systems and Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, local author and national authority on corporate strategy, regarding her new book "Conventional Wisdom - How Today's Leaders Plan, Perform, and Progress Like the Founding Fathers"
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Episode 4 is truly a great episode! Expression Encoder 3, Live Writer, Mobility programming, Windows Mobile Marketplace, and Expression Blend 3 Behaviors and a star studded cast including, 4 MVPs! This show is smoking!!!! Don't forget to leave your comments and thoughts...
Wow! My Dutch International MBA degree ranked #1 in a select category by the Financial Times, and the Bachelor's degree from Washington University placed in multiple categories.
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