You are invited to attend the following 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.
Join us on Tuesday, January 12th in Miramar as Ed Hill discusses what's new with .Net. From Framework to Visual Studio, this .Net meeting will discuss it all. Mix in some great networking, and this is the year's first "not-to-miss" event for .Net enthusiasts.
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.
(Or are you going to use Office 2003 until you are retired?)
Join us on Wednesday, January 13th in Miami for a first look at Microsoft Office 2010. MS Office will be the best productivity experience across the PC, phone and browser for what you depend on today and what you'll expect tomorrow. Get a free first look!
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 Joe Healy of Microsoft presents 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.
Prior to the AsFug meeting, Sherlock will be giving Sherlock Holmes Movie passes to Sherlock trivia winners and we'll be watching Sherlock videos. Wow, does that sound fun, or what!
For links to more information on Azure the inaugural AsFug meeting, go to:
The first five people to call Alex and reference the newsletter will receive complementary tickets.
Otherwise, please buy the tickets from Debbie (954-835-7227) at the BankAtlantic Center referencing "Alex Funkhouser's Birthday Party" for $75 each. The $15 parking fee is included in the ticket price
7pm Pre-Game tailgate party in the parking lot - meet some of the Miami Caliente's finest!
SFTA Presents The 2010 State Of The Technology Industry Report
Join us on Thursday, January 28th 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!
Last call for Corporate Sponsorships: Meet over 700 South Florida .NET Professionals, all in one place.
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Community Credit
2nd Prize: Family Guy Monopoly
Giggity Good Fun!
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 opponenets 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!
We discuss the current status and developing trends in the professional employment market in South Florida and beyond.
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Want to win an HP TouchSmart Notebook?
How does this sound? Write an article on CodeProject.com on techniques for coding Windows Client applications. Include some screen shots and code samples. Tag your article with the keywords "windows 7". That's it! You're entered to win one of THREE HP TouchSmart Notebooks! Pretty sweet deal. More details can be found at this URL - http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9702428 . The contest ends 2010-Feb-03.
Carpe diem.... >««(o>... Building .NET developer communities in Florida
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Groundhog Job Shadow Day
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Job Shadowing is a nationwide effort where hundreds of thousands of workplaces welcome millions of student shadows through their doors. Job Shadowing is an academically motivating educational activity dedicated to giving kids an up-close look at the world of work.
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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.
