Peter Griffith's Weblog

ACS SA Branch Conference – Thu 21st Oct

stepp0 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:18:06 +0000

http://sa.acs.org.au/conf2010/

ACS members $175 non-members $250 Student $75/$120

Email pgriffit@senet.com.au for special price for booking 2 delegates

See and hear:

Controversial Free and Open Source Software Luminary Richard Stallman,

State Government CIO Andrew Mills,

Tier 5 MD Marty Gauvin,

Coopers Brewery CFO John van Ruth (ISACA),

Softronics Dr Anthony Overmars,

Data Agility MD John Neville,

QLD Govt Exec Director Tony Hayes (ISACA)

Internode MD Simon Hackett

Powell and Co. MD David Powell (ISACA).

One international, one national and one local keynote, 11 speakers across 3 streams and a panel on the ‘Standards Dichotomy’

The Electron is on display at the Adelaide Clever Green Conference and Showcase

stepp0 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:51:48 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/yjbbyh9

On display is the ‘CO2 Tacho’ to be installed in each Electron (naturally it will be smaller) to (a) record the CO2 content of energy being put into the car and (b) allow the drive to automatically set charging to commence when Green energy on the grid is at its highest and to turn charging off when dirty power is at its highest.

Launching Windows Azure in Adelaide Mon 22nd Feb

stepp0 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:23:41 +0000

David Lemphers – Senior Program Manager Windows Azure at Microsoft will conduct the Adelaide launch of Windows Azure (Cloud computing).
To register for Monday’s lunchtime Azure Launch, http://tinyurl.com/yjqsnjw
This is a combined meeting for ADNUG, ASPUG, AdSSUG,

David, now based in Redmond, was formerly Dynamics Platform Evangelist at Microsoft Australia.

Summary of David’s Expdrience

Cloud computing, Engineering, Large Scale Software Services, Datacenter Development

Software engineering, systems design, datacenter planning, hardware design, embedded systems

http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlem/

CurrySIG Tandoori Hut, 27 Bank St – Friday 15th January 12.30

stepp0 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:10:35 +0000

The longest running Australian Computer Society Special Interest Group..

First 2010 meeting of the CurrySIG
Date: Friday 15^th January
Time: 12:30pm for 12.45pm

Venue: Tandoori Hut,

27 Bank Street
Adelaide S.A. 5000

If you would like to attend, contact me.

For Your Diary

Friday 12^th February British India

Friday 12^th March Maya Sweets

ADNUG MEETING WED 13th Jan SA Innovation Centre AUDITORIUM

stepp0 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:59:05 +0000

Adelaide Dot Net Users Group

To register for Wednesday’s meeting, http://tinyurl.com/yjqsnjw

This month January 2010

1. ADNUG 13^th January Meeting Programme – Please Register (by Wed am would help)
2. Get FREE WebSiteSpark from Hosting Partner Expeed (Simon Holman)
3. 8^th March – VS2010 TFS and Sharepoint 2010 Workshops
4. MS Press Online Store with UG Specials still available!
5. Other Adelaide User Group meetings

1. ADELAIDE DOT NET USERS GROUP.

The next meeting of ADNUG will be held on WEDNESDAY 13^h January at 5.45pm

at
SA Innovation Centre , Level 2, Westpac House, 91 King William Street, Adelaide .

Visitors welcome.

PROGRAMME

5.45 pm Finger food and Drinks.

Join with us for a drink and nibbles.

6.15 pm What’s New – Microsoft at CES 2010

6.25 pm Peter Griffith – GUI-Visuals – WebSiteSpark program for Developers

http://www.microsoft.com/web/default.aspx

Create cutting-edge, visually stunning Web sites and applications that engage your users, make them stop in their tracks, and play along. Develop rich and immersive opportunities for users to participate in your creation, all using a comprehensive set of products that work together to execute and deliver your most creative ideas. Create cutting-edge, visually stunning Web sites and applications that engage your users, make them stop in their tracks, and play along. Develop rich and immersive opportunities for users to participate in your creation, all using a comprehensive set of products that work together to execute and deliver your most creative ideas.

Visibility, support and software for professional Web Developers and Designers – at no upfront cost!*

Peter will demonstrate what’s in WebSiteSpark for software developers and how developers get access to software to develop and deploy apps.

7.05 pm Simon Holman Expeed– WebSiteSpark Hosting Partner

. http://www.expeed.com.au

Get Free Hosting on the Microsoft Web Platform. Host your application or Web site on the most up-to-date Microsoft Web platform, and get a great deal.

WebSiteSpark provides the software (IIS7, SQL server 2008, etc) to allow you to do your own hosting OR

Microsoft has arranged WebSiteSpark hosting with Service Providers such as Expeed to provide exceptional deals to allow hosting of apps

7.35 pm Meeting close

.2. Get FREE WebSiteSpark from Hosting Partner Expeed

http://expeed.com.au/hosting/websitespark.aspx

Expeed is your local Hosting Partner for the WebSiteSpark program!!

If you’re a website developer then you can get some free software and cheap VPS hosting (new sites only though).

WebSiteSpark is aimed specifically at those who are developing in the web platform. Microsoft is giving a jumpstart to get started on the Microsoft Platform.

3. VS2010 TFS/ Sharepoint 2010 Workshops – Adam Cogan SSW – 8^th March

At the Microsoft Innovation Centre:

Adam will be presenting further workshops continuing on from the successful workshops held last month.

4. April MS Online Press Store User Group Specials

www.mspress.com.au

User Group Members offer of 30% discount on all books on the site. We’d love your help to promote the store to your community by blogging about the site and including the URL in your newsletters and other communication to your User Group Members.

Some of the great advantages of www.mspress.com.au include:

- Express delivery

- Competitive pricing

- Easy Keyword Search facility

- Latest titles and Books of the Month

- Large inventory

- Newsletter sign-up

- All User Group Members will receive a 30% discount by using this Code at Checkout (members email PG for code).

5. Other Adelaide USER GROUPS meetings:

SQL Server User Group

Venue: Level 2 Westpac House (91 King William Street Adelaide)

4^th Tuesday of month –

Duration 2 hours (including light lunch) 12.00pm – 2:00pm

http://www.sqlserver.org.au/Events/ to Register

SharePoint User Group

Venue: 5.45pm Level 2 Westpac House, 91 King William Street Adelaide.

3rd Tuesday of month.

To join ASPUG and/or be on mailing list click on

http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/Adelaide/default.aspx

Adelaide Microsoft CRM UG

Venue: 5.45pm Level 2 Westpac House, 91 King William Street Adelaide.

Next meeting 24^th February.

Contact Rick Rofe

6. Join the MSDN Connection. http://msdn.microsoft.com for details

Going Interstate? For list of Australian User Groups http://www.microsoft.com/australia/msdn/usergroups.aspx

Subscribe to MSDN Flash http://msdn.microsoft.com/flash.

ACS SA Curry-SIG – Tandoori Hut, 27 Bank St Adelaide 12.30pm Friday 15th January

stepp0 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:07:07 +0000

The longest running ACS SA Special Interest Group..

First 2010 meeting of the CurrySIG
Date: Friday 15^th January
Time: 12:30pm for 12.45pm

Venue: Tandoori Hut,

27 Bank Street
Adelaide S.A. 5000

If you would like to attend contact Peter Griffith.

For Your Diary

Friday 12^th February British India

Friday 12^th March Maya Sweets

Peter Griffith

Further information 0408 832 891

ACS Foundation and Open Forum co-hosting online forum: EXCITING CAREERS IN I.T.

stepp0 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:55:55 +0000

Exciting Careers in IT http://www.openforum.com.au/IT-careers
On 25 November 2008, the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Faculty
of Engineering and Information, Industry Advisory Network supported by
the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Foundation and ACS NSW held a
breakfast forum where members of the industry got together with
students, academics and other key stakeholders to discuss the ICT
skills shortage.
"I.T. is exciting! Why don’t young people know that?" That was the
question on the day, and that will be the subject of a report being
prepared for release in 2009.
Following the lively and articulate debate on the day, ACS Foundation and Open Forum decided to co-host this online forum:

EXCITING CAREERS IN I.T.

The forum will be open until January 31, 2009, to provide you with an
extended opportunity to collaborate by contributing your ideas,
thoughts, comments or suggestions to be included in the report.

Australian Computer Society http://www.acs.org.au

ACS Foundation http://www.acsfoundation.com.au

ADNUG MEETING WED 10th December SA Innovation Centre AUDITORIUM

stepp0 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:29:01 +0000

To register for Wednesday’s meeting, use the “Visitor without an ACS Id” option (unless you are an ACS member) at

http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10123752040358

This month December 2008

1. ADNUG December Xmas Meeting Programme – 10th .December Please Register (by Wed am would help)

2. MS Press Online Store with UG Specials still available!

3. Employment requests

4. Australian SQL Server User Group meeting – Thu 9^thOctober

5. ASPUG Adelaide Sharepoint User Group meeting – Tue 21^st October

6. Beta version of new ADNUG website

7. Freebies from Microsoft Press for 2008 launches

8. Join the MSDN Connection

9. Sponsors

1. ADELAIDE DOT NET USERS GROUP.

The next meeting of ADNUG will be held on WEDNESDAY 10^th December at 5.45pm

at
SA Innovation Centre , Level 2, Westpac House, 91 King William Street, Adelaide .

Visitors welcome. See below for Programme.

PROGRAMME

5.45 pm Finger food and Drinks.

Join with us for a Xmas drink and nibbles and build up your strength for the Quiz .

6.25 pm Questions and answers. Bring along your .Net problems for discussion from members.

6.35 pm Sorin Buzila – Better Software – The Dot Net Quiz using Reply Voting System

http://www.bettersoftware.com.au/ProductsVoting.htm

There are 25 multichoice questions based around exam 70-536, The Microsoft .Net Framework 2. Application Foundation exam.

There will be Reply handhelds for your answers to be recorded and aggregated electronically.

After each question is answered, answers will be debated before correct answer is announced.

Prizes will be awarded during and after the Quiz.

A typical Quiz question

• Q) You’ve created a function named “MyFunction” which you want to be called every 10 minutes. You decide to use the Timer class. You write another function called “StartTimer” which you will use to start the Timer. Also, when “StartTimer” is called, you want “MyFunction” to be called the moment the timer is started. What code would you use?

• 1. void StartTimer()
{
Timer myTimer = new Timer(new TimerCallback(MyFunction), null, 600000, 0);
}

• 2. void StartTimer()
{
Timer myTimer = new Timer(new TimerCallback(MyFunction), null, 0, 600000);
}

• 3. void StartTimer()
{
Timer myTimer = new Timer(new TimerCallback(MyFunction), null, 600000, 600000);
}

• 4. void StartTimer()
{
Timer myTimer = new Timer(new TimerCallback(MyFunction), null, 1, 600000);
}

7.45 pm Meeting close

2. MS Online Press Store User Group Specials

www.mspress.com.au

Some of the great advantages of www.mspress.com.au include:

- Express delivery

- Competitive pricing

- Easy Keyword Search facility

- Latest titles and Books of the Month

- Large inventory

- Newsletter sign-up

- All User Group Members will receive a 30% discount by using this Code at Checkout (members email PG for code).

3. Employment Requests

No employment requests this month

4. AUSTRALIAN SQL SERVER USER GROUP meeting:

Venue: Level 2 Westpac House (91 King William Street Adelaide)

Duration 2 hours (including light lunch) 12:00 – 2:00pm on 4^th Thursday of Month

http://www.sqlserver.org.au/Events/ to Register

5. ASPUG ADELAIDE SHAREPOINT USER GROUP meeting:

Venue: 5.45pm Level 2 Westpac House, 91 King William Street Adelaide.

3^rd Tuesday of month. No meeting in December

To join ASPUG and/or be on mailing list click on www.aspug.org.au

6. Beta of new ADNUG web site

Thanks to Paul for getting the new web site to a stage that we can now get this project underway to further develop the site.

http://paulturner.is-a-geek.com:9001/default.aspx

This is an opportunity to do some work and get experience in Sharepoint 2007. We are looking for “volunteers” and beginners to get involved. You will be supported and mentored.

See latest suggestions at

http://pgriffith.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/developing-new-adnug-website/

Pick a function that needs to be added to the site and volunteer.

7. NEW – Freebies from Microsoft Press

Free e-book offer and Microsoft Press newsletter

The free e-book includes content from three recent publications from Microsoft Press:

•	*Introducing Microsoft LINQ* by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo (ISBN: 9780735623910) This practical guide covers Language Integrated Query (LINQ) syntax fundamentals, LINQ to ADO.NET, and LINQ to XML. The e-book includes the entire contents of this printed book!
•	*Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX* by Dino Esposito (ISBN: 9780735624139) Learn about the 2007 release of ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0, including an overview and the control toolkit.
•	*Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0* by Laurence Moroney (ISBN: 9780735625396) Learn how to use Silverlight to simplify the way you implement compelling user experiences for the Web. Discover how to support an object-oriented program model with JavaScript.

Learn more about the free e-book offer, and sign up for the Microsoft Press Book Connection newsletter, a newsletter that provides news about upcoming and recent releases, special offers, and additional information from those who know our books best.

•	Sign up for the free e-book offer and the Microsoft Press newsletter

Check out these additional Microsoft Press books about Visual Studio:

•

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step
Teach yourself the fundamentals of working with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008—one step at a time. With this book, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises.

•

Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Step by Step
Get the hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning about the latest enhancements in Microsoft Visual C# 2008. Visual C#, one of the tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, is a modern programming language designed to deliver a productive environment for creating business frameworks and reusable object-oriented components.

8. Join the MSDN Connection. http://msdn.microsoft.com for details

Going Interstate? For list of Australian User Groups http://www.microsoft.com/australia/msdn/usergroups.aspx

Subscribe to MSDN Flash http://msdn.microsoft.com/flash.

Australian Dot Net Users Group ADNUG http://www.adnug.com

notice of meetings http://www.adnug.com/notices.htm

Member of INETA http://www.ineta.org

http://www.ineta.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=20

SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR ACCESS AFTER 6PM.

The doors from Topham Mall opposite the lifts for 2nd floor are not locked till 7pm.

Enter through the lane from Topham Mall (where the Topham Mall car park is)

If doors are locked when you arrive, ring 0408 832 891 or 0403 432393 and we will come down to the After Hours exit in Currie St and let you in but only till 7pm..

Rostrum Club #10 Meeting 165 on Wednesday 5th Nov 2008

stepp0 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:14:23 +0000

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Rostrum Club #10 Meeting 165 on Wednesday 5th Nov 2008

Hosted by: Peter Griffith

Date and time: Wednesday, 5 November 2008 at 5:45 PM

Location name: Hawke Buiding, North Terrace (Cnr Fenn Place), Adelaide

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ADNUG MEETING WED 8th October SA Innovation Centre AUDITORIUM

stepp0 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:34:23 +0000