Dev Event Archive 2008

If you need to look up the blog of a speaker at a past event, this is where you might find it.  For upcoming events, see Queensland Developer Events.

Thu 18 Dec 08

Qld SQL Server User GroupQld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00
  • Shaun Baggett: Perspectives on SQL Server 2008 Policy Based Management

Tue 16 Dec 08

BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community Dec 08BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community Dec 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00
  • Bill Chesnut: 1st Look at BizTalk Server 2009 & 1st Look at Windows Azure

Sat 13 Dec 08

Anti-Net Censorship - Nationwide Rally
Brisbane Square/Reddacliff Place.  Also Mel, Syd, Ade, Hba, Per

  • 11:00 to 15:00

Thu 11 Dec 08

The Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group Dec 08The Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group Dec 08
Brisbane City Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane

  • 19:00
  • Ben Maden: Online Marketing Using Google AdWords

Wed 10 Dec 08

Brisbane Infrastructure Group Dec 08Brisbane Infrastructure Group Dec 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 20:00
  • Shane, Dugie, Brendon & Alan: a “Pimp my LAN” session

Tue 9 Dec 08

Qld MSDN User Group Dec 08Qld MSDN User Group Dec 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Anthony Borton: VSTS2010 and .NET 4

Fri 5 Dec 08

Qld VSTS User Group - Dec 08Qld VSTS User Group - Dec 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 7:30 to 9:00
  • Matthew Rowan: Using Business Intelligence to simplify reporting with TFS
  • Dylan Tusler: Lessons learnt moving a TFS server

Tue 2 Dec 08

Brisbane Security Special Interest Group Dec 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Shane Williams from Powerlink: Cyber security for critical infrastructure aging assets

Thu 27 Nov 08

Qld SQL Server User Group Nov 08Qld SQL Server User Group Nov 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Michael Redman from Microsoft Consulting Services: Performance Tuning Tools in SQL Server 2008

Wed 26 Nov 08

BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community Nov 08BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community Nov 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00
  • Daniel Toomey: BizTalk Mapper : Finding Your Way on the Map

Tue 18 Nov 08

Qld MSDN User Group Nov 08Qld MSDN User Group Nov 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Paul Stovell: Rich Client Pattern Safari

Fri 14 Nov 08

Qld VSTS User Group - Nov 08Qld VSTS User Group - Nov 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 7:30 to 9:00
  • Anthony Borton: VSTS News and Demos from PDC

Fri 7 Nov 08

Readify Developer Network - Dev Day
Cliftons, 288 Edward Street

  • 8:30 for 9:00
  • Philip Beadle: Silverlight and DotNetNuke
  • Chris Hewitt: ADO.NET 3.6, SharePoint and SQL 2008 Analysis Services
  • Tatham Oddie: ASP.NET MVC Framework, AJAX and Windows Live

Thu 6 Nov 08

Brisbane Community Liberation DayBrisbane Community Liberation Day
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 14:00 for 14:30
  • Steve Ballmer: Software plus Services
    The latest Software plus Services announcements from the Professional Developers Conference. Video streamed live from Sydney at 15:30 AEST.

Wed 29 Oct 08

Brisbane Agile / Scrum User Group
QUT

  • 18:00 to 20:00
  • TBD: Scrum presentation
  • James Brett: Product Backlog session - shape the community and provide input on how it evolves, content you would like to see etc

Wed 29 Oct 08

BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community Oct 08BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community Oct 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00
  • Daniel Toomey: Finding Your Way on the Map
    The BizTalk Mapper

Thu 23 Oct 08

Girl Geek Dinners Brisbane - Dinner 2Girl Geek Dinners Brisbane - Dinner 2
Verve Café, Brisbane City

  • 18:30 to 22:00
  • If you are a geek and a girl or know of one who is willing to escort you then you are welcome and encouraged to come along. There is a technical focus with the intention of having fun and connecting with other women in IT.

Thu 23 Oct 08

Qld SQL Server User Group - Oct 08Qld SQL Server User Group - Oct 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Peter Ward: Business Continuity with Backup and Restore

Mon 13 Oct 08

Wardy IT Community Dinner - October 08
Breakfast Creek Hotel, 2 Kingsford Smith Drive, Breakfast Creek

  • 18:30
  • An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
  • RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com
  • NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Sat 11 Oct - Sun 12 Oct 08

SQL Down Under Code Camp 2008SQL Down Under Code Camp 2008
Wal Fife Theatre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga

  • A great opportunity for SQL Server professionals to learn new skills and network with over 100 other DBAs and developers from around the country.
  • It is free to attend. Book your accommodation early.

Thu 9 Oct 08

The Brisbane Web Design Meetup GroupThe Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group
Brisbane City Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane

  • 19:00
  • Teale Shapcott: Embedding Usability into your Designs

Tue 7 Oct 08

Brisbane Security Special Interest Group - Oct 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • George Michaelson (Senior Research and Development Sspecialist) and Siamak Hadinia (Information Security Officer) from APNIC: IPv6

Fri 3 Oct 08

Qld VSTS User Group - Oct 08Qld VSTS User Group - Oct 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 7:30 to 9:00
  • James Brett: Conchango’s Scrum for Team System (SFTS) plug-in for tracking a Scrum project

Thu 25 Sep 08

Qld SQL Server User GroupQld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Dean Sutcliffe: SQL Server Data Profiling
    techniques to address common data quality issues

Wed 24 Sep 08

BrizTalk - September meetingBrizTalk - September meeting
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00
  • Daniel Toomey: 8 Tips & Tricks
    Discussion of an excellent article by Microsoft BizTalk experts Marty Wasznicky and Scott Zimmerman

Tue 16 Sep 08

Qld MSDN User Group - Sep 08Qld MSDN User Group - Sep 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Ashley Hubbard: Building a Line of Business Silverlight Application in under 5 minutes

Mon 8 Sep 08

Wardy IT Community Dinner
Victoria Park Golf driving range then dinner at the Newmarket Hotel

  • 18:00
  • Start with a few buckets of balls at the Victoria Park Golf driving range from 6:00PM and then head to the Newmarket Hotel for dinner from about 8:00PM
  • An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
  • RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com
  • NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Tue 2 Sep - Fri 5 Sep 08

Tech.Ed Australia 2008Tech.Ed Australia 2008
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre

  • Registration now open

Thu 28 Aug 08

Girl Geek Dinner Brisbane 01Girl Geek Dinner Brisbane 01
Caravanserai Turkish Restaurant, 1-3 Dornock Tce, West End

  • 18:30
  • An informal dinner with a technical focus and the intention of having fun and connecting with other women in IT.

Thu 28 Aug 08

Qld SQL Server User GroupQld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00
  • Catherine Eibner: Using Change Data Capture in SQL 2008 SSIS Packages

Tue 19 Aug 08

Qld MSDN User Group Aug 08Qld MSDN User Group Aug 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Zijian Huang, Mincom: SymcML .NET API
    Synchronising data and mobile devices.
  • Andrew McGrath: Visual Web GUI
    Run Winforms applications over the web via HTTPHandler, AJAX and now Silverlight 2.0

Mon 18 Aug 08

Demos Happen {Here} Qld State FinalsDemos Happen {Here} Qld State Finals
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • Who will go on to compete for the National Championship at Tech.Ed?

Thu 14 Aug 08

The Brisbane Web Design Meetup Aug 08The Brisbane Web Design Meetup Aug 08
Brisbane City Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane

  • 19:00 for 19:10
  • Sean Ockert: Why is my website slow?
  • Ben Maden: Adwords
    A primer on using Adwords to create additional traffic to your website.

Tue 5 Aug 08

Brisbane Security Special Interest Group Aug 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Dr. Adrian McCullagh (QUT): Breaches: Disclosure and the Privacy Commissioner
    A look at the proposed data security breach disclosure guidelines, recently published by the Privacy commission to better counteract the growing incidence of Identity Theft. Consequences for the IT security environment.
  • RSVP to Wade Alcorn, wade @ ngssoftware.com

Fri 1 Aug 08

Microsoft Virtual Earth Platform and MapPoint Web Service - Meet the Experts - BrisbaneMicrosoft Virtual Earth Platform and MapPoint Web Service - Meet the Experts - Brisbane
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 11:30 for 12:30 to 17:30
  • Jen Forsythe/Peter Ulm: Overview of Virtual Earth
  • Customer/Partner Presentation
  • Virtual Earth Technology Specialist Johannes Kebeck: Technical Masterclass
    VE tips and tricks as well as sample code.
  • Register Online:

Wed 30 Jul 08

BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community July 08BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community July 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Dean Robertson (Shared Information Solutions): Server Side Applications
  • Heroes Community Demo Competition:
    3 more contestants

Thu 24 Jul 08

Qld SQL Server User Group July 08Qld SQL Server User Group July 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Greg Low: Avoiding Stored Procedure Recompiles
    Techniques to be used when writing database code to help avoid the need for recompilations and to help keep systems performing well.

Tue 15 Jul 08

Qld MSDN User Group, July 08Qld MSDN User Group, July 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Dave Apelt: Demos Happen {Here}
  • Patrick Klug, Novamind: Real-world WPF
    Showcasing a real-world Winforms/WPF hybrid application along with WPF goodness, development best practices and C# tips and tricks.

Mon 14 Jul 08

Wardy IT Community Dinner
Zenbar, Park Level, Post Office Square, 215 Adelaide Street

  • 18:30
  • An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
  • RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com
  • NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Thu 10 Jul 08

The Brisbane Web Design Meetup GroupThe Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group
Brisbane City Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane

  • 19:00
  • How to get ahead in web design!

Wed 9 Jul 08

Brisbane SharePoint User Group July 08Brisbane SharePoint User Group July 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 12:00 to 13:30
  • Ivan Brebner — Myriad Technologies: 50,000 Ft and Climbing
    A high-level view of Governance on SharePoint
  • Adam Clark—Sharing Minds: Kerberos Authentication

Thu 26 Jun 08

Qld SQL Server User Group June 08Qld SQL Server User Group June 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Rob Farley: SQL Server 2008 new language features (MERGE and TVPs) and Resource Governor

Tue 17 Jun 08

Qld MSDN User Group, June 08Qld MSDN User Group, June 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Joseph Cooney: Silverlight 2.0 vs WPF: similarities and differences

Sat 31 May 08

Last Day to qualify for the Get Certified ChallengeLast Day to qualify for the Get Certified Challenge

  • Microsoft are offering the first 100 Australian User Group members who achieve an MCP or an MCTS certification between now and 31 May a free exam voucher (pass 1, get one free)
  • PLUS!  The Australian user group with the most MCP/MCTS passed between now and 31 May will earn a $3000 Microsoft Prize Hamper!

Sat 24 May 08

Brisbane Barcamp
East Brisbane Bowls Club

Tue 20 May 08

Qld MSDN User Group May 08Qld MSDN User Group May 08
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Paul Stovell: Reactive Programming with SyncLINQ

Wed 30 Apr 08

BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk CommunityBrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00
  • Steven van Bodegraven, Avenade: Creating Messaging Systems Using WCF & Visual Studio 2008
  • Daniel Toomey: 8 Tips & Tricks for Better BizTalk Development

Sat 26 Apr - Sun 27 Apr 08

Code Camp OzCode Camp Oz
Wal Fife Theatre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga

  • A .NET developer community driven event. Two intense days of sessions on current development topics featuring the latest and up-coming development tools.
  • It is free to attend.
  • I’ll be there!

Thu 24 Apr 08

Qld SQL Server User GroupQld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 18:00
  • Rod Colledge: Top 10 New DBA features in SQL 2008

Fri 18 Apr 08

Qld VSTS User GroupQld VSTS User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 7:30 to 9:00
  • Carl Rogers: Improving Team Productivity via Process Enactment with Team Foundation Server

Tue 15 Apr 08

Qld MSDN User GroupQld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Dylan Tusler: A Case Study: Using TFS to support long-running deployment projects
  • Dylan will also share his experiences with upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2008.

Thu 10 Apr 08

The Brisbane Web Design Meetup GroupThe Brisbane Web Design Meetup Group
Brisbane City Square Library, 266 George Street, Brisbane

  • 19:00
  • Leon: Pimp your logo!

Wed 2 Apr 08

BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk CommunityBrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00
  • Ray Trattles, Renardisa Pty Ltd: Window Server 2008
  • Marty Gnanananthan, Data#3: Visual Studio 2008

Tue 1 Apr 08

Brisbane Security Special Interest Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Jeff Alexander: First presentation for the BSSIG
  • Enquiries and RSVP to Wade Alcorn, wade (at) ngssoftware.com

Thu 27 Mar 08

Qld SQL Server User GroupQld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

Wed 26 Mar 08

Heroes Happen {2008} Brisbane EventHeroes Happen {2008} Brisbane Event
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Merivale St (Cnr Glenelg), South Brisbane QLD 4101

  • 8:00 for 8:45 to 17:30
  • Highlighting the three new core products: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.

Tue 18 Mar 08

Qld MSDN User GroupQld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Leon Bambrick: F# eye for the C# guy
    An introduction to Microsoft’s new functional language on the .NET platform: geared toward C# and VB.net coders.
  • See how functional programming, object oriented programming and imperative programming can work together to provide untold expressiveness.

Fri 14 Mar 08

Qld VSTS User GroupQld VSTS User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 7:30 to 9:00
  • William Bartholomew: Migration and Synchronisation Toolkit

Mon 10 Mar 08

Wardy IT Community Dinner
Montezumas, Shop 4, 455 Brunswick Street, New Farm

  • 18:30
  • An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
  • RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com
  • NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Wed 27 Feb 08

BrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk CommunityBrizTalk - Brisbane Biztalk Community
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • Eddie Tse: SharePoint and BizTalk
  • Dean Robertson: Using BizUnit for component testing

Thu 21 Feb 08

Qld SQL Server User GroupQld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 18:00
  • Kalen Delaney: SQL Server Architecture, Internals and Optimisation
  • Note date change. This month’s meeting is held in conjunction with the Qld MSDN User Group.

Thu 21 Feb 08

Qld MSDN User GroupQld MSDN User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 17:30 for 18:00 to 19:30
  • Kalen Delaney: SQL Server Architecture, Internals and Optimisation
  • Kalen is the author of the best selling books Inside SQL Server 2000, Inside SQL Server 2005 – The Storage Engine and Inside SQL Server 2005 – Query Tuning and Optimization
  • Note date change. This month’s meeting is held in conjunction with the Qld SQL Server User Group.

Mon 11 Feb 08

Wardy IT Community Dinner
Himalayan Café, 640 Brunswick Street, New Farm

  • 18:30
  • An opportunity for IT professionals to get together in a social environment to share experiences and advice regarding the challenges that we tackle everyday.
  • RSVP to peter @ wardyit.com
  • NB. you will be responsible for the cost of your own dining.

Fri 1 Feb 08

Qld VSTS User GroupQld VSTS User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 7:30 for 8:00 to 9:00
  • Grant Holliday: Secure your TFS development environment (aka TFS for IT Pros)

Thu 24 Jan 08

Qld SQL Server User GroupQld SQL Server User Group
Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

  • 18:00
  • Tony Finnemore: Protecting the Corporate Jewels & Your Backside