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		Greetings! You are invited to attend the following ten I.T. educational and I.T. industry networking events listed below, and take special note of Stephanie Simon, pictured to my right, starring in the bizarrly wonderful theatrical production of "Bat Boy" currently showing at the West Boca Permforming Arts Theatre. 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 and Sherlock's daily hottest job feed Twitter page. If you would like to unsubscribe from this eNewsLetter, please click "Unsubscribe" in right side footer or send me an email or call.

I.T. Educational & Social Events


		TechEvents eNewsLetter Contents: Silverlight-Prism UG To Discuss Multi-Targeting Silverlight On Silverlight 4 Real World Application PMI Broward Dinner Meeting Is Back SFTA Tackles Enterprise Cloud Computing 5th Annual South Florida Code Camp SFOUG Will Help You Increase Performance in Oracle 11g How To Become A Women Entrepreneur In IT Florida IT Server Group Discusses Infrastructure MCT and Regional Director Introduces Silverlight 4.0 SQL Server Training Comes To Ft. Lauderdale Hot I.T. Jobs


		Silverlight-Prism Users Group Meeting To Discuss Multi-Targeting Join us on Wednesday, February 24th from 4pm to 5pm in Doral as the Silverlight-Prism Users Group covers the basics of how to Multi-target your applications for both Silverlight and WPF. We all know the challenges in accomplishing this all too common goal. In this presentation we will do a walkthrough from beginning to end, including all of the tips, tricks and gotchas involved. For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=756





		Silverlight Users Group To Discuss Silverlight 4 Real World Application Join us on Thursday, February 25th at the Sherlock Offices in Miami Beach as David Silverlight gives us a walkthrough of a Silverlight 4 Real World Application. Many of us have seen the various demos showing off the new features of Silverlight 4 and they are all very exciting. This month, David will put all of the pieces together during his walkthrough of a complete Silverlight 4 application, showing how the different pieces fit together. This is another Tech Dinner presentation in the private dining room of Oggi Italian Restaurant. If you RSVP and then can't make it, be sure to let us know so that your seat may go to someone on the wait-list. For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=757





		PMI Broward Dinner Meeting Is Back Join us on Thursday, February 25th in Ft. Lauderdale for PMI's first Broward Dinner Meeting of 2010...and this one will start he year off with a bang! To kick off our 2010 Broward Dinner program, we are pleased to bring together some new faces who have been busily establishing PMO's and transforming large scale public & private organizations in the much talked about health care arena here is South Florida, coupled with insights from PMO Practitioners tasked with managing large scale, distributed teams to deliver large scale programs at a multi-national level. For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=753





		SFTA Tackles Enterprise Cloud Computing Join us on Thursday, February 25th in Ft. Lauderdale for the SFTA's Panel on Enterprise Cloud Computing. Do you want to get your head out of the virtual cloud? Attend the virtual server, storage, backup, and disaster recovery event of the year. Moderated by Host.Net's Jeffrey Slapp, the panel, comprised of Cisco, Datacore Software, Dell, and VMware, will show you everything you ever wanted to know about virtual services but were afraid to ask! For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=748





		5th Annual South Florida Code Camp Is Finally Here 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! * Special Technology Book Swap - bring your books to trade with your peers. * and * Bring your old cell phones to recycle for the benefit of the AOIT - Academy of Information Technology. * For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=698





		SFOUG Will Help You Increase Performance in Oracle 11g Join us on Thursday, March 4th in Hollywood for a great opportunity to hear from Janis Griffin, an expert Oracle DBA who possesses a clear and in-depth understanding of Oracle systems. Janis will be presenting on the increased performance you can get using the new results cache features of Oracle 11g. You are sure to receive informative and educational content you can take back to work the next day. For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=752





		Panel To Discuss How To Become A Women Entrepreneur In IT Join us on Tuesday, March 9th in Ft. Lauderdale for a panel of women entrepreneurs in IT will discuss how they applied their expertise to become female founders of technology startups. We will cover topics such as entrepreneurial soft skills, pros and cons of starting a business, vendor and customer management, and how to leverage the latest technology in business. Have you ever considered what it would be like to use your area of expertise to fulfill your dreams or turn your brilliant idea into lucrative business? Whether you are an existing entrepreneur, an aspiring entrepreneur, or have always wanted to become an innovative leader by enhancing your professional and personal development, you will benefit from attending this compelling event. Then this is the event for you! For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=761





		Florida IT Server Group Discusses Infrastructure Join us on Wednesday, March 10th at the Microsoft Offices in Ft. Lauderdale as the Florida IT Server Group discusses how to realize the potential of a Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Infrastructure. The 3 session event will cover: The New Efficiency: Windows 2008 R2 Building an ASP.net Server on Server Core R2 Concept Direct Access For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=741





		MCT and Regional Director Introduces Silverlight 4.0 Join us on Thursday, March 11th in Boca as Microsoft Certified Trainer and Regional Director Shervin Shakibi introduces Silverlight 4.0. Shervin will look at the new features coming in 4.0 that truly makes Silverlight a rich client platform for both intranet and internet applications. New for the software developer are 60 new customizable forms controls, WCF RIA services, CLR enables code the same for both browser and desktop, enhanced databinding support, Managed Extensibility Framework, and tooling support in Visual Studio 2010. Don't forget about our great raffle and networking! For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=743





		Kalen Delaney SQL Server Training Comes To Ft. Lauderdale Join us the week of Monday, March 22nd at the Microsoft Offices in Ft. Lauderdale for an advanced 5-day course designed for advanced SQL Server Professionals. The course includes extensive demonstrations that illustrate the details of SQL Server internals as well as tuning techniques. This course will be presented on SQL Server 2008 and cover features specific to that version, but most of the information is relevant to SQL Server 2005 as well. This 5-day intensive seminar was developed by one of the world's leading experts in SQL Server internals. The course includes extensive demonstrations that illustrate the details of SQL Server internals as well as performance tuning techniques. A reference CD including all of the demonstration scripts as well as dozens of whitepapers and useful tools will be distributed at the end of the week. For more information and to register, click: http://www.sherstaff.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=730

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The number of online job ads rose by 382,000 in January to more than 4.0 million. This is the first time the number has exceeded 4.0 million since November 2008.

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