You are invited to attend the nine I.T. educational and I.T. industry networking events listed below.
If you need to hire IT Professionals or be hired, ask for Alex at these events, and email or call Alex at Alex@SherStaff.com & 305-458-5579. You are encouraged to join Alex's LinkedIn and Facebook pages.
Tiki Hut Roadshow To Feature Silverlight, Silverlight, And More Silverlight
Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd in Ft. Lauderdale as Joe
Healy presents the Tiki Hut Roadshow. With the ever expanding buzz
around Silverlight 3, Joe has gotten a boatload of requests to dive
deeper into what makes Silverlight 3 a "must have" skill set in your
skill set. He hears you and is back on the road to give you an entire
afternoon dedicated to Silverlight!
Reservations are required and seating is currently at capacity. For more information and to join the wait-list, click:
Join us on Thursday, November 3rd in Ft. Lauderdale for one of the biggest holiday events of the season. SFTA's All-Networking Holiday Party features an evening of robust networking, raffle prizes, Toys for Tots, silent auction, food, cocktails, and holiday music! This year's event will feature some of the best networking in South Florida as well as prizes from Dell, Bacardi, Sherlock, and many more. Proceeds will go to support The Academy of Information Technology. This is the event you have been waiting all year for and it's finally here!
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 1 Day Workshop for Developers
Join us on Thursday, December 3rd at the Microsoft Offices in Ft. Lauderdale for a day
deep dive into SharePoint 2010 for Developers. This program has been
designed to build a strong skill base to develop SharePoint 2010
applications using Visual Studio 2010. The training is targeted toward
SharePoint 2007 professionals who are looking to better understand the
differences, deltas, and new features of SharePoint 2010. Don’t miss
this great opportunity to meet with highly skilled Microsoft SharePoint
experts, network and exchange practical experiences!
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!
WebSphere Flexible Business Processes Briefing Coming To Doral
Join us on Tuesday, December 8th in Doral as IBM delivers its 2009 WebSphere Flexible Business Practices Briefing to the WebSphere Community. This free, technical briefing will show you first hand how IBM WebSphere solutions compare to those provided by competitors such as BEA, Oracle, Microsoft, and JBoss. See live product demonstrations including real world scenarios that demonstrate the value of the IBM WebSphere software for an overall smarter approach to SOA. IBM experts will explain how IBM can help integrate people, processes, application, and information to derive significant return on investments. Get the answers you need at this exciting all-day event. See you there!
itSMF's Holiday Gala To Feature Best Practices This Holiday Season
Join us on Thursday, December 10th in Davie as itSMF's Holiday Gala helps us understand 'The Gift of Giving Best Practices'. Gift-giving should not be a seasonal thing, it should be a an attribute we practice year-round. In the world of IT and Service Management, the spirit of giving is best expressed when we strive to take IT and its operation the extra mile as well as when we predict and proactively provide for your customers' needs.
This holiday season, join the itSMF folks as we explore the gift of giving Best Practices and delve into your experiences in giving 'good' IT practices in your organizations, communicate other industry-wide known and proven best practices, and share our knowledge in a festive but structured social gathering. And, in the spirit of giving, join us and participate in our Toy Drive, benefiting Toys for Tots. Happy Holidays and we look forward to seeing you there.
Join us on Thursday, December 10th in Ft. Lauderdale as
we celebrate the holidays with an international array of wines and
appetizers. You'll receive a "sampling" card, valued at $40 that
allows you to taste approximately 4-8 different wines. This is your
chance to taste high-end or unusual varieties that you may not have
experienced. There will be also be terrific holiday prizes from our
sponsors.
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.
For links to more information on Azure the inaugural ASFUG meeting, go to:
5th Annual South Florida Code Camp Set For February
Join us on Saturday, February 27th at DeVry in Miramar for
a FREE one day GEEK FEST held on Saturday February 27, 2010. This is
the fifth year for South Florida Code Camp. The event will have
speakers from the local community and beyond. Speakers will be
presenting some of the most requested topics like ASP.NET AJAX, Visual
Studio 2008, MVC Framework, Silverlight, Windows Presentation
Foundation, Sharepoint 2007 and SQL Server 2005. This event is like
Tech-Ed for Free but it's community driven by a group of dedicated
volunteers and speakers. Breakfast and lunch is included!
Those
fresh-from-the-can, full-of-potential, childhood memories... Now in a
convenient spray!
This Play-Doh Cologne was created to celebrate the 50th Birthday of
Play-Doh! Hasbro said the fragrance is "meant for highly-creative
people, who seek a whimsical scent reminiscent of their childhood."
Close your eyes and you're back in kindergarten all over again! It's
amazing how the scent of Play-Doh can take you to another time and
place.
A majority of human resources professionals (54%) make their final decision to hire a person based on "chemistry," according to a poll released Tuesday by the Society for Human Resource Management.
It found that 15% of human resources professionals said chemistry accounts for 75% of the final decision to hire, and 39% said chemistry amounts to 50% of the final decision to hire.
The survey also found that 30% of human resources professionals made a decision not to hire within 15 minutes of meeting the job candidate. And 28% made a decision not to hire within five minutes.
Respondents to the survey included 498 randomly selected members of the Society for Human Resource Management who are recruiting professionals.
Source: Staffing Industry Analysts
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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...
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