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I hate waste, but while running a software company, I’ve seen plenty of it over
the past 20 years. Sometimes an app that could have been built by a good guy in
3 months ends up taking a team of half a dozen developers a whole year. |
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In 2013 we heard that Obama Care was really going to come to life. Like almost
every Australian, I love the concept of universal health care: people without
money should still be looked after by excellent doctors. In the summer of 2013,
all of us in the IT industry cringed as we read about HealthCare.gov. This was
to be the shining light for Obama Care but instead it fell over on day one. The
Americans really know how to waste money. They spent USD $600 million, obviously
mostly on meetings and not effective software development. And clearly the
budget was too tight for any load testing. :-)
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In Australia recently, there’s been a lot in the press about a company called
Parakeelia that has a software product for MPs called “Feedback” (for my
American readers, a Member of Parliament is like a Congressman). There have been
all sorts of allegations about this software company that has built a simple
custom CRM (nothing fancy like Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics CRM). People are
asking why this Canberra based software company is making such large
contributions to the Liberal Party, who by the way, appears to be their only
client. They were the 2nd largest contributor of Liberal Party donations last
year in 2015, 4th the year before in 2014.
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Figure: The waste in
software development hurts everyone and makes projects overly
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Was Parakeelia
really paid $15 million for the ‘Feedback’ software and maintenance and
support? Keep reading for my thoughts on the matter. |
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VIDEO: Angular Hackday – Angular 2 in 20 minutes with
Duncan Hunter |
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TypeScript, Rx.JS, components, dependency injection,
routing and more have all changed in Angular 2. In this
video you will get up to speed with all these changes
and learn to make your first Angular 2 application.
Watch
video.
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Angular 2 - 6 Week Online Bootcamp |
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FireBootCamp is running a new 6 week online Angular 2 course
designed to teach you how to build robust user interfaces using the
Angular 2 framework. This course is for front end and backend
developers who want to upskill in the shortest possible time on
Angular 2. We teach you how to build scalable/enterprise apps
following best practices we have learned from experience on client
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With the release of Angular 2, there's even more to learn and love.
Angular Hack Days are free events for beginner and pros alike to
come and share the thrill of creating something beautiful in a
supportive and friendly environment. Read More |
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Brisbane, Australia |
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Xamarin Hack Days are free events that make it easy for anyone to
learn cross-platform development using Xamarin, a product that
allows you to use .NET/C# to create native apps that will run across
Android, iOS, and Windows. Read More |
Sep
24
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From 1-5 August 2016 Hilton Sydney will host the first ever NDC in
Australia. The event will feature international speakers like Scott
Hanselman, Damian Edwards, as well as Aussie names such as Troy
Hunt, Greg Low, and SSW's very own Adam Cogan.NDC is a 5 day
event with 2 days of deep dive workshops and 3 days of conference
sessions. Read More |
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One time only, NDC Sydney special event! 2 world-class Scrum
trainers are coming together to run a special edition Professional
Scrum Master Training Course.The Professional Scrum Master
(PSM) course is a 2-day course that covers the principles and
(empirical) process theory underpinning the mechanics, rules and
roles of the Scrum framework. Read More |
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July User Group - Sydney |
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Angular 2 War Stories - We're bringing the front line to you! |
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Angular 2 is awesome. Performance, Mobile friendly, Flexible. Sweet ! Happy Users, Happy
Developers, Happy Business. Awesome! .... but there are so many options, and so many
unanswered questions.
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This session will de-mystify Angular 2 and show you the pitfalls to avoid when building
Angular 2 in production. Come see how we are doing it now on large enterprise applications.
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About the presenter |
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Adam is passionate about building awesome teams and software
projects.
He loves people, patterns, processes and technology: Azure, MVC,
Scrum, clean code, dependency injection, tests, continuous
delivery, training, mentoring and presenting.
Adam believes communication and agility lead to success: 'fail
fast', inspect, adapt, have a lot of fun.
Adam loves a puzzle. His favourite is how to transform complex
business requirements into working software, delivered
incrementally, while educating and co-ordinating team members
and stakeholders.
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SSW Sydney
Gateway Court Suite 15
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay
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SSW and Octopus Deploy invite you to join us for pizza! It's a fun and delicious
opportunity for networking with peers and sharing thoughts after the Sydney .NET
User Group. Read More |
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SSW Sydney
Gateway Court Suite 15
81-91 Military Road, Neutral Bay
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Sydney .NET User Group and NerdDinner proudly sponsored by: |
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July User Group - Canberra |
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Angular 2 War Stories - We're bringing the front line to you! |
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Angular 2 is awesome. Performance, Mobile friendly, Flexible. Sweet ! Happy Users, Happy
Developers, Happy Business. Awesome! .... but there are so many options, and so many
unanswered questions.
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This session will de-mystify Angular 2 and show you the pitfalls to avoid when building
Angular 2 in production. Come see how we are doing it now on large enterprise applications.
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About the presenter |
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Adam is passionate about building awesome teams and software
projects.
He loves people, patterns, processes and technology: Azure, MVC,
Scrum, clean code, dependency injection, tests, continuous
delivery, training, mentoring and presenting.
Adam believes communication and agility lead to success: 'fail
fast', inspect, adapt, have a lot of fun.
Adam loves a puzzle. His favourite is how to transform complex
business requirements into working software, delivered
incrementally, while educating and co-ordinating team members
and stakeholders.
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Microsoft Canberra
Level 4, 6 National Circuit
Canberra
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