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 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.
Two Important Lunch And Learn Events Coming To Terremark
Join us on Wednesday, January 20th to discuss Cost Effective Lead Generation and again on Thursday, January 28th as we discuss Migrating to the Clouds at the Terremark offices in Miami. Two great speakers, Two great discussions, two weeks - these Lunch And Learn events just keep getting better! See you there!
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.
Join us on Thursday, January 28th in Miramar as the Miramar SQL Users Group kick off the new year with Brian Knight discussing data warehousing. And if that isn't enough, get there early for pizza and schmoozing at 6pm.
Join us on Thursday, January 28th in Plantation as Microsoft MVP Max Trinidad begins the new year Working With PowerShell Profiles. There will be lots of giveaways, discussions (about more than just Profiles), and much, much more.
Johnny Martinez Jr. Kicks Off PMI 2010 Dinner Meetings
Join us on Thursday, February 4th in Doral as the South Florida Chapter of PMI kicks off the new year with their first dinner meeting of 2010. Johnny Martinez, Jr., Director of Miami-Dade's Office of Capital Improvements (OCI), will provide us with an overview on project management approaches and trends along with insights into working in the public sector. Mr. Martinez will discuss project management approaches, lessons learned, tools, techniques and practices, and commentary on the public sector industry and methods. This is not an event to miss!
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.
SQL Server
2005/2008 Internals and Query Tuning
Join us on 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. The course will be presented on SQL 2008 and cover features specific to that version, but most will be relevant to SQL Server 2005 as well.
***For a $500 early sign-up discount, sign-up before February 14th and contact Alex for the discount code ***
Go
ahead and shake your groove thing with these Saturday Night Speakers!
If you long for the disco days of platforms and bellbottoms, our
Saturday Night Speakers are sure to help you get your groove back!
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
by Joe Healy of Microsoft
Support the I.T. community:
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.
and reference Sherlock Technology as your Network Partner. You may call Alex Funkhouser for more details 305-458-5579
Your Newsletter Subscription
You receive this invitation as a friend of the South Florida Association of Internet Professionals, Sherlock Technology Recruiting, and Computer Careers Staffing, Inc. Please use the options at the bottom of the page if you'd like to opt-out on future invitations, or call Alex Funkhouser 305-458-5579 or email alex@sherstaff.com We care about your
preferences!
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.
