You are invited to attend the ten 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.
Ft. Lauderdale ArcSig Geek Talk and Social Meeting
Join us on Tuesday, December 15th in Ft. Lauderdale for a Ft. Lauderdale ArcSig geek talk and social meeting. We will be discussing the upcoming year and anything else that comes up. It's a great way to get your two cents in as well as meet some of South Florida's best and brightest. Networking, ArcSig, Hooters' Wings - what else could you ask for?
S. Florida SQL Server Users Group Wants To Hear From YOU
Join us on Thursday, December 17th in Pembroke Pines for the S. Florida SQL Server Users Group End-Of-The-Year Planning Party. This is the perfect opportunity for you to meet fellow SQL Server enthusiasts as well as discuss next year's events and help to make the user group even better.
Join us on Tuesday, January 12th in Ft. Lauderdale and experience a night of fun and sophistication as we make smart connections and enjoy wine tasting. Come and make the most of your exchange with others while we sip fabulous wine.
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 an environment that is Structured to Maximize your Advantage with the Right Technology Connections (SMART). SMART Connections series are structured and facilitated so that you can meet your networking goals each and every time you attend.
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Madore And Homnick Discuss VS Team Foundation Server 2010
Join us on Thursday, January 14th in Boca as the Dynamic Duo of Kim Madore (now with Microsoft) and Joe Homnick, Microsoft Solutions Framework Practitioner, present new features for the fourth year. Kim and Joe will give their interpretations of how the new TFS 2010 features will impact you. Joe has gone Scrum happy and will discuss how this approach is integrated into TFS 2010.
SFIMA Gets Dolphins' Marketing VP To Share Winning Secrets
Join us on Thursday, January 14th in Ft. Lauderdale as Christopher Overholt, VP for Dolphins Enterprises LLC discusses his winning secrets to enhancing the efforts of all aspects of the sales and marketing functions. From day-to-day responsibilities such as corporate sponsorship sales and promotion to increasing brand performance and sales, Mr. Overholt will share his secrets in this once-in-a-blue-moon event you don't want to miss.
Join us at 4pm on Wednesday afternoon, January 20th in Doral for a meeting that will bring you into 21st century functionality from your 20th century technology.
Are you managing mission critical, enterprise applications written in Visual Basic 6.0 with COM+ ? Have you heard the calling? We need 21st century functionality from our 20th century technology - how do we do it?
While we're not talking about punch card upgrades or expanding Y2K fields, we are answering the current challenge with the Microsoft Prism framework. Come and learn how to leverage your technology assets to solve both today`s challenge and prepare for tomorrow's challenges.
Join us on Thursday, January 21st as we join Joe Healy of Microsoft for another dining and learning experience 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:
SFTA Presents The 2010 State Of The Technology Industry Report
Join us on Thursday, January 21st in Ft. Lauderdale as Akshay Sharma, leader of the Research Agenda for Converged Infrastructure Worldwide discusses mobile infrastructure (radio and core), mobile broadband, cloud-based Telco 2.0 initiatives, WiMAX/Wi-Fi, PacketCable, VoIP, IMS, FMC, and trends in core network distributed softswitch architectures. Ultimate Software's Bill Hicks and St. Thomas University's Jim Bussey will lead the panel.
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!
Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities available: Meet over 700 South Florida .NET Professionals, all at once.
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9th Prize: Floating Match Illusion
Levitation at Your Fingertips
Rabbits from hats and goofy card tricks don't impress us. We're more on the Pen and Teller side of the magic spectrum. Slight of hand... that's too much practice for us. That's why we're only offering you the finest illusions which require very little skill to execute. The Floating Match Illusion allows you to levitate any small light object over the surface of a playing card. It comes with some wooden matches to levitate, but really you can hover anything that is small and light enough. Afterwards you can pick up the item you hovered and allow complete examination of it. You can even slip another playing card underneath while hovering the item. The beauty of this illusion is that it basically works itself. The first time you hover something you'll probably amaze yourself and be puzzled as to how the trick really works. No skill is required and no practice is needed.
Floating Match Illusion Winner:Harish Ranganathan [MVP]4,000 Points
The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Economics Research team estimated global gross domestic product growth of 4.4% in 2010 with U.S. GDP growth at 3.2%.
In addition, the BofA Merrill Lynch Research Investment Committee reported corporate capital spending in 2010 will boost temporary staffing and the industrial sector as production expands.
"We believe the global economy will gather momentum in 2010," said Ethan Harris, head of North America economics and coordinator of global economics. "We think that the unprecedented mix of near-zero interest rates and high budget deficits will engineer an economic recovery that is real and sustainable. We aren't forecasting a swift return to robust growth. In fact, the recovery will likely lag behind those of previous recessions -- but we believe that the world economy will perform far better than the economic consensus would indicate."
Source: Staffing Industry Analysts
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We recorded the first episode of the new season at the .NET Gold Coast Users Group holiday party meeting - 12 fantastic speakers brining you the latest technology you need to know! We'll post the program as soon as we're done editing.
