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, Facebook and Twitter pages.
Join us tonight, Thursday, December 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!
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
Alex Funkhouser-Community
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!
•Interested in free software and support to grow your web development business?
•Who needs help getting your customers' websites to the top of the search rankings?
•Looking for tips and tricks to design and develop next generation web experiences?
•Looking to make your web development business more profitable?
•Looking to streamline the way you design, build and deploy websites?
If so, attend the Elite Web Optimization event.
Microsoft & Applied Innovations Present:
The Elite Web Optimization Event
Marriott Fort Lauderdale
6650 N Andrews Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
December 8th, 2009 9:00AM-6:00PM
Come spend a day with us to explore the Microsoft Windows Web Platform and the many hosting services provided by Applied Innovations!
During this event, we’ll review what’s new in the Microsoft Web Platform and Developer tools, the interoperability improvements in the Microsoft Web platform and the value that Applied Innovations can add to your project/business.
Through a series of demonstrations and discussions you'll learn how to leverage:
The Microsoft Web Platform: The IIS Management Console, HyperV and the Dynamic Data Center, SQL Server 2008 Web Edition and IIS Media Services 3.0.
Microsoft Interoperability: PHP on Windows, WebPI, PHP Drivers in MS SQL Server 2008.
Microsoft Web Tools: Visual Studio, Expression, Silverlight.
Applied Innovations suite of services and cloud computing.
The New WebsiteSpark Program for Web Developers and Designers.
The Great PHP on Windows Contest and how you can win great prizes.
The Microsoft Partner Evangelism Initiative.
All attendees will receive vouchers for 2 months of free Managed Windows VPS Hosting where they'll be able to apply everything they learned at the Elite Web Optimization event! ($198 value)
In addition, All attendees will be entered into a drawing to win one of many great prizes including:
*12 Months of Managed Windows VPS Hosting
*An HP NetBook preloaded with Windows 7
*An Xbox360 Elite game console
*A ZuneHD
*An 8GB Zune
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.
Microsoft Office 2010 is ready - are you? (Or are you going to use Office 2003 until you are retired?)
The best productivity experience across the PC, phone and browser for what you depend on today and what you'll expect tomorrow.
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!
Getting accurate measurements is important whether it's a repair project in the garage or a new experiment in the lab. Sometimes a fraction of an inch can mean the difference between a successful experiment and a complete meltdown. Of course we realize that sometimes complete meltdowns are the experiment. So, in the interest of more accurate meltdowns measurements we offer this tape with digital display.
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...
The South Florida I.T. Job Market is looking better now than it has in over a year
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