Dev Event Archive
If you need to look up the blog of a speaker at last month’s event, this is where you might find it.
For upcoming events, see Queensland Developer Events.
For earlier events, see the archives for 2009, 2008, 2007 or 2006.
Thu 28 Oct 10
Qld SQL Server User Group Oct
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Shaun Baggett: A Database Project? What’s that?
Mon 6 Sep - Fri 10 Sep 10
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning and Advanced T- SQL
- SolidQ Australia:
Course developed by Greg Low and Itzik Ben-Gan
Tue 24 Aug - Fri 27 Aug 10
Tech.Ed 2010
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
- Pre-register your interest for updates and the opportunity for priority registration.
Tue 29 Jun - Fri 2 Jul 10
- SolidQ Australia:
Course developed by Itzik Ben-Gan
Thu 17 Jun 10
The Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group, June
Brisbane City Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane
- 19:00
- tba
Wed 16 Jun - Thu 17 Jun 10
Australian SharePoint Conference 2010
Hilton Sydney
- THE Australian SharePoint Conference to learn about both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 from expert local and international speakers.
- Network with your peers in the community and industry experts, including local and international Microsoft Most Valued Professionals, product vendors, Microsoft partners and Microsoft representatives.
- FREE hosted SharePoint Server 2010 site! (Thanks to Emantra)
Tue 15 Jun 10
Qld MSDN User Group - Jun
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Anthony Borton: A look at Lab Management using VS2010
Create, manage and deploy lab environments using MTLM and SCVMM
Sat 5 Jun 10
BarCamp Brisbane V
QUT Gardens Point Campus
- 10:00
- Full details TBA, but likely to include:
- Speed networking, “Show and Tell” corner, + more
Thu 3 Jun 10
Wardy IT Solutions June SQL Server Breakfast
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 7:30 for 8:00 to 9:00
- How SQL Server 2008 R2 can be used to easily deliver maps and spatial data visualization.
- Register via contact @ wardyit.com
Tue 1 Jun 10
Brisbane Security Special Interest Group, Jun
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Wade Alcorn: Injection Attacks
Interpreted Languages, SQL Injection, LDAP Injection, Command Injection, Email Header Injection, Command Injection in ASP
Tue 1 Jun - Wed 2 Jun 10
REMIX10
Melbourne
- A two day conference where designers, developers and the Web industry comes together to share the love and see where the Web’s going next.
Thu 27 May 10
Qld SQL Server User Group, May
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Peter Ward, WARDY IT Solutions: I am a DBA – Why should I care about SQL Server 2008 R2?
Wed 26 May 10
BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community, May
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Cameron Shackell from ActiveADAPTER: BizTalk & Active Directory
- Dan Toomey: How Healthy Is Your BizTalk Server?
Thu 20 May 10
Qld MSDN User Group Special YOW! Night
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Dave Thomas: Why Real Developers Embrace Functional Programming Data
Confessions of an Objectaholic and Statefull Sinner - Also: Learn all about the YOW! Developer Conference 2010. (Formerly known as JAOO).
- NOTE Date move to THURSDAY!
Thu 20 May 10
Brisbane Infrastructure Group, May =MEETING=RESCHEDULED=
EMC, Level 32 Waterfront Place
- 17:30 to 19:30
- Michael Francis, VMWare: VMware Cloud Compute strategy
This months session is and NDA session (you will be required to sign a legal NDA) - NOTE: Same building, different floor!
Wed 19 May 10
Brisbane Business Productivity User Group - May, midday
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Peter Hale: Microsoft CRM 101
Tue 18 May 10
Qld MSDN User Group May
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Andrew Coates, Microsoft Developer Evangelist: Code Faster, Code Better with Visual Studio 2010
Thu 13 May 10
Office 2010 Launch Party
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:00 to 20:00
- Local launch party for SharePoint 2010, Office 2010 & Project Server 2010
- Details at http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/MOSSIG/Wiki/SPOLaunch.aspx.
Thu 13 May 10
SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010 Launch
- 1:00
- Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division: Live keynote
11 am EST. May 12, 2010 = 1 am Thu May 13 in Brisbane - RTM (Release to Manufacturing) April 2010
Wed 12 May 10
Brisbane Web Design May - Special Guest Speakers (WCAG2.0 & CSS3)
Brisbane City Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane
- 19:15
- Roger Hudson: Multimedia accessible alternatives
Using WCAG 2 to deal with captions, transcripts etc - Russ Weakly: Get ready for CSS3 Media Queries - why should you care?
How media queries may be used now and into the future in powerful ways.
Wed 12 May 10
Business Intelligence 2010 (starring Power Pivot and Office 2010)
- SolidQ Australia:
SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010, Excel 2010’s PowerPivot and PerformancePoint Services deliver a new generation of data tools with a specific focus of self-service BI.
Wed 12 May 10
SQL Server Developer Essentials
- One of many SQL Server courses delivered by WARDY IT Solutions
Sat 8 May 10
SharePoint Saturday Brisbane
Excom Training Centre, L1, 344 Queen Street
- 9:00 to 17:00
- SharePoint Saturday will be an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE.
Fri 7 May 10
Qld ALM User Group, May
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 7:30 to 9:00
- Andrew Coates, Microsoft: Cloud Development
Rapid Development of Cloud Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure
Thu 6 May 10
Powershell Usergroup Brisbane - May
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 to 19:30
- Ben Parker: Getting your scripts Production ready
Tue 4 May 10
Brisbane Business Productivity User Group - May, evening
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 to 19:00
- Adam Cogan: Performance Point Services and Access Services in SharePoint 2010
Mon 26 Apr - Fri 7 May 10
- Represent Australia in the 2010 Scripting Games, and be eligble for extra prizes.
Thu 22 Apr 10
Girl Geek Dinners Brisbane
Coco Bella, Shop 2-75 Welsby Street, New Farm
- 18:30
- Tammy Halter: The path to being a Geek, does not have to start with a Degree in Technology
Thu 22 Apr 10
Qld SQL Server User Group - Apr
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Mark Morton, Myriad Technologies: PowerPivot
… from installation, integration with Excel 2010 to publishing in SharePoint 2010
Wed 21 Apr 10
Brisbane Business Productivity User Group, Apr, Midday
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Alana Helbig, Myriad Technologies: Microsoft InfoPath 2010
Tue 20 Apr 10
Qld MSDN User Group, Apr
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Paul Stovell, Readify: Aspect Oriented Programming
… separate the concerns of your code and change the behaviour of existing objects. - Solon Edmunds: Experiences with Agile
… in development houses.
Fri 16 Apr 10
Qld ALM User Group - Apr
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 7:30 to 9:00
- Sam Guckenheimer, Product Planner for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010:
Thu 15 Apr 10
The Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group, Apr
Brisbane City Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane
- 19:00
- Carolyn King (@cazazz): Logo design: considerations, typical design process, issues, examples, trends
- Brad Halcrow (@BradHalcrow): Design Basics: Contrast, Alignment Repetition & Proximity
Tue 13 Apr 10
Brisbane Infrastructure Group, Apr
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 to 20:00
- Adam Clark and Roger Carran from Sharing Minds: SharePoint Foundation Server 2010
Tue 13 Apr - Wed 14 Apr 10
Australian ALM Conference 2010
Luna Park, Sydney
- Australia’s premier conference focusing on Application Lifecycle Management
- Will incorporate Microsoft Australia’s official launch of Visual Studio 2010.
Thu 8 Apr 10
Powershell Usergroup Brisbane, Apr
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 8:30 for 8:45 to 10:00
- Ed Wilson, “Microsoft Scripting Guy”: Powershell 2.0 Best Practices
Wed 7 Apr 10
SharePoint 2010 Hands On Day for Developers
Cliftons, 288 Edward Street
- 8:15 to 18:30
- Rai Umair and Miguel Herrera, Maventor:
Tue 6 Apr 10
Brisbane Security Special Interest Group Apr
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Adrian McCullagh: Internet Law: Some Criminal Aspects
Criminal Law, Hacker Advancement, Public Policy Issues, Cyber Crime Act 2000 and Evidential issues - RSVP to wade @ ngssoftware.com
Thu 25 Mar 10
Qld SQL Server User Group Mar
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Rod Colledge: ‘Hidden’ features of SQL Server Management Studio
- Shashank Pawar from Microsoft: What, Why, Where, When, Who and How of Master Data Services
More on Master Data Services.
Wed 24 Mar 10
BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community Mar
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Dan Toomey: InfoPath & SharePoint integration with BizTalk Server 2009
Thu 18 Mar 10
The Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group (Mar)
Plough Inn, Southbank, “Upstairs in the board room”
- 19:00
- HTML5
Wed 17 Mar 10
Brisbane Business Productivity User Group (Lunchtime)
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 12:00
- Craig Box: The Sixth Sense of SharePoint
Tue 16 Mar 10
Qld MSDN User Group March
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Dave Glover & Andrew Coates: Windows Phone, Windows 7 and Office 2010 for developers
Sat 6 Mar 10
BarCamp Gold Coast IV
Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Southport
- 10:00 to 16:00
- Speed networking
- “Show and Tell” corner
- + more
Tue 2 Mar 10
Brisbane Security Special Interest Group March
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Patrick Gray, Risky Business: Being pwned is the new paradigm
- RSVP to Wade Alcorn, wade@ngssoftware.com
Tue 2 Mar 10
Brisbane Business Productivity User Group (Evening)
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30
- Mark Morton: Reporting Services integration with SharePoint 2010
Sat 27 Feb 10
Qld SQL Server User Group Feb
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Victor Isakov: The Problem with Parallelism
Wed 24 Feb 10
Australian Launch of Windows Azure
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 12:00 to 13:00
- David Lemphers, Senior Program Manager on the Windows Azure team at Redmond: Technical Briefing for Brisbane User Group members
Tue 23 Feb 10
Girl Geek Dinners Brisbane
Vapiano - Albert Lane, just of the Queen Street Mall
- 19:00
- Casual networking night
Open to any female in the IT indutry or who has an interest in the industry, or any male invited by an attending member
Thu 18 Feb 10
The Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group - Feb 2010
- 19:00 to 20:30
- The floor will be open to anyone will to give a short 10-15 minute talk on any topic.
Tue 16 Feb 10
Qld MSDN User Group Feb 2010
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
- Robert Crago, Revelation Computing: An Introduction to WPF 3D
3D modelling in WPF and Expression Blend - Joel Pobar: Visualisations of myschool.edu.au data
Fri 12 Feb 10
Brisbane Business Productivity User Group (Lunch)
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Alistair Speirs, Microsoft: Getting to Know Office 2010

Mike Fitzsimon
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