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|  Time to register for Code Camp 2011 held this year at Nova South Eastern
University. Sponsorship opportunities are still available - see 'In
The Spotlight' for more details.
You are invited to attend all or any of the upcoming I.T. educational and industry networking events listed below. If
you need to hire IT Professionals or be hired, ask for me at these
events. You can also email Alex@SherlockTech.com or call me on 305-651-6500.
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|  ArcSig Ft.Lauderdale: Win Phone 7 In-App Purchasing | | WITI SMART Connections @ Seventh St. Wine Company | | Panel Discusses HTML 5 Led By Microsoft's Joe Homnick | | S Florida Business Technology Networking Happy Hour | | Alex Koval on Migrating Apps To Windows Azure | | SFSSUG:
Optimizer Details: How it is affected by statistics | | 2nd
Annual Electronic Health Record Symposium | | South Florida Code Camp 2011 Coming In February | | Joe
Healy lights up U of M with Silverlight | | Hot I.T. Jobs - The
S. Florida I.T.
job market is heating up |
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ArcSig
Ft.Lauderdale: Win Phone 7 In-App Purchasing
Join us Tuesday, January 18th at 6:30 pm at Microsoft's
Ft. Lauderdale offices as Jason
Milgram leads a session on how to add 'in-app' purchasing to your Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Silverlight apps. Jason
is the founder of Linxter, a message-oriented cloud middleware platform
provider. |
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WITI SMART Connections @ Seventh St. Wine Company
Join us Wednesday, January 19 at 6 pm for an evening of structured and facilitated networking
and make the most of your exchange with others!
Local connections are often the most important, so our SMART Connections series in 2011 are shaped to build strong connections at the local South Florida level that complement the connections you can make globally with WITI. |
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Panel Discusses HTML 5 Led By Microsoft's Joe Homnick
Join us Thursday, January 20th in Miami as Microsoft Regional Director Joe
Homnick leads a panel to show us HTML 5. Come experience HTML 5 in Visual
Studio 2010 as a HTML Page with Intellisense and delivered through the view of
ASP.Net MVC (Model-View-Controller) 3. Microsoft is serious about supporting
and contributing to the HTML 5 specifications for a better user experience in
IE 9 as well as more development choices supporting HTML 5.
This panel session will give you an early start to knowing what's essential
about HTML 5 from a Visual Studio 2010 developer's perspective. We'll review
the importance of HTML 5 standards and see some of the latest available HTML 5
elements in action.. We'll then discuss the current support available for HTML
5 when using Visual Studio. Finally, the panel will close with a future
roadmap of HTML 5 and Visual Studio.
Space is Limited for this tech dinner event at the Oggi Restaurant so please RSVP rsvp@miamiusersgroup.org
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Florida Business Technology Networking Happy Hour
Join us Thursday January 20th 5pm to 8pm at the Palm Beach
Ritz-Carlton. **Note,
there will be no formal presentations.
Do you like to learn about new technology? Do you like to network with your
peers? Do you want to learn about new and emerging technologies? Do you enjoy
and adult beverage, especially when its free? If so, then the Business
Technology Networking Happy Hour is for you! We also encourage you to bring a
colleague who shares your interest in IT. Come and network with your peers
and select sponsors at the Palm Beach Ritz-Carlton
Don’t rush - arrive and depart at your convenience - people will be
networking from 5pm to 8pm. Bring
some extra business cards! |
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Alex
Koval on Migrating Apps To Windows Azure
Join us Tuesday, January 25th in West Palm as Senior Software Architect
Alex Koval covers aspect of migrating real-world .Net applications to Windows
Azure. He will cover aspects such as migrating your data layer, file
repositories, and migration of business logic. Such challenges include
migration of third-party components. All techniques will be illustrated with
code examples and demos.
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SFSSUG:
Optimizer Details: How it works, How it is affected by statistics
Join us Wednesday, January 26th at DeVry University as Grant
Fritchley reveals Optimizer
Details: How it works, How it is affected by statistics. Grant is a database
administrator, he has 20+ years experience in IT including time spent in
support and development and has been working with SQL Server since 6.0 back in
1995. He has developed in VB, VB.Net, C# and Java. He volunteers at PASS with
the Editorial Committee and is the serving president of the Southern New
England SQL Server Users Group (SNESSUG). He was recognized as a Microsoft SQL
Server MVP in 2009 and 2010. |
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2nd Annual Electronic Health Record Symposium
Join us Thursday, January 27th at Miami
Dade College,Wolfson
Campus.
The event will bring together local physicians, hospital administrators,
practice managers, clinical partners, and vendors to discuss important issues
related to information about the process of implementing EHR, including
strategies for selecting the right solution for your practice, improving patient
care, and increasing productivity.
Special
guest and keynote speaker is Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for
Health IT.
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South Florida Code Camp 2011 Coming In February
Join us Saturday, February 12th at Nova Southwestern University in Davie for the 6th Annual South Florida Code Camp. S. Florida Code Camp 2011 is a free, one day geek fest with speakers from the local community and beyond that will be presenting some of the most requested topics like ASP.Net, AJAX, Visual Studio 2010, MVC Framework, Silverlight, WPF, Sharepoint 2010, and SQL Server 2008R2. 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!
Call For
Sponsors - South Florida Code Camp
Without the continued and generous sponsorship of prominent South Florida
companies, Code Camp would not be possible. Sponsoring Code Camp at any
level is a proactive way to involve your company in the development of S. Florida
I.T community.
For more information, visit the Sponsorship page and contact
Dave Norderer daven@computerways.com |
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Joe
Healy lights up U of M with Silverlight
Join us Thursday, February 24th, all day at the University of Miami, Joe Healy stars in: Light up your Silverlight Apps for Windows 7 Firestarter
Windows
7 and Silverlight make for a fantastic platform to build and deploy
applications. Together, you have the power to build smart,
visually stunning applications that truly light up. Want to learn
how to take advantage of your desktop OS using Silverlight? Want
to learn some Silverlight programming techniques? Want to dialog
about some Silverlight Futures? Join us for a full day of
Silverlight with a special emphasis on out-of-the-browser applications. |
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In The Spotlight
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Without the continued and generous sponsorship of prominent South Florida
companies, Code Camp would not be possible. Sponsoring Code Camp at
any level is a proactive way to involve your company in the development of
S. Florida I.T community.
Gold sponsorship $2000.00
Silver Sponsorship $1000.00
Active Supporters $500.00
For more information, visit the Sponsorship
page and contact
Dave Norderer daven@computerways.com
Code Camp Book Swap
Make your better half happy, clear your shelves &/or desktop & get rid
of some of those still good but not necessary books. Visit the
Code
Camp Book Swap Page
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E2Marketing
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What are you doing to attract new customers? Tel 954.806.2188
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Joe Healy
www.devfish.net
Carp diem.... Building .NET developer communities in Florida by Joe
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Refer Candidates and/or Hiring Managers, receive $500 referral bonus
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Receive an unlimited amount of any fully licensed Microsoft software for
next to nothing. If your company is less than 3 years old with
revenues less than $1mil, register today and reference Sherlock Technology
as your Network Partner. Or call Alex Funkhouser 305-651-6500
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Voices for Children Foundation
http://www.voices4.org
Voices for Children is the fundraising arm for abused, neglected and
abandoned children locally
Please Contact: Jeff Greene
Cell: 786-357-7106
jgreene@voices4.org
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Technological University of America
Please Contact: Terry Suess
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