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October 14, 2015

The Visual Studio 2015 ebook: behind the scenes

Adam Cogan ebook, Visual Studio 1 Comment

In August SSW released its first ever ebook, entitled “The Visual Studio 2015 (Anti-inflammatory) Check List”. We set out to create something that was unique, visually pleasing, and straight to the point, so you get the top 5 pieces of information quickly. From conception to delivery, it was a collaborative labour of love, and the […]

September 25, 2015

Mooncake festival and how you can Chinafy your app and enter the Chinese market

Adam Cogan Chinafy, SSW China 0 Comments

SSW’s Beijing office is gearing up for the mid-autumn festival. The mid-autumn festival is most famous for its dense savoury mooncakes, and is sometimes called the mooncake festival. The full moon is traditionally a symbol for reunion, tuanyuan, as yuan means round. Chinese people celebrate by coming together as families to eat, drink and be merry. The […]

September 8, 2015

Wow! FireBootCamp is #1 – We won the Microsoft Australia Partner Award for Learning

Adam Cogan Awards, FireBootCamp 1 Comment

UPDATE: This has been re-posted on the FireBootCamp blog  UPDATE 2: If you’re not familiar with the course, I put up 5 videos to watch on http://firebootcamp.com/ Today, I am proud to announce SSW has won the MAPA 2015 Microsoft Australia Partner Award for Excellence in Learning for FireBootCamp, our 9-week intensive training .NET boot camp. […]

August 12, 2015

VIDEO – Tips for Tesla: How Tesla could make the Model S even more awesome

Adam Cogan Tesla 5 Comments

Updated February 18 – a software update means I can now cross auto parking off my wish list 🙂 Updated February 22 – added pothole protection to my wish list As a tech guy, Tesla’s electric car with an in-built computer is the sort of grown-up toy I’ve been dreaming of, so when I heard that Tesla […]

July 8, 2015

5 things to love about Dynamics CRM 2015

Adam Cogan CRM, General CRM 0 Comments

I’ve been meaning to talk about the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 for quite some time now. After implementing it on-premises for several clients and upgrading our own installation, I was thrilled to find that many of the long standing problems I had been raising for years have now been solved. I was also surprised […]

June 11, 2015

SSW is proud of another project – Brisbane Catholic Education Case Study

Adam Cogan SSW Projects 0 Comments

Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) has a great track record building solutions on the Microsoft stack and are in fact one of the largest users of SharePoint in the Southern Hemisphere. BCE engaged SSW to build a strategic planning tool that would be super powerful, flexible, and easy to use for all of their schools administrators […]

May 10, 2015

Aussie Azure – Winning on Visual Studio Online in Australia – I feel the speed

Adam Cogan General, TFS, Visual Studio Brian Harry, Microsoft 2 Comments

7 months ago in October 2014, Scott Guthrie announced the long-awaited availability of Microsoft Azure cloud services in Australia. Currently there are two data centers, Sydney and Melbourne. Today, 11th May 2015, sees Visual Studio Online (also known by my clients as VS Online or VSO or TFS Azure) come to our Australian Azure data centers. This is great […]

April 8, 2015

SSW Data Onion – Helping you Simplify your Data Layer

Adam Cogan SSW Data Onion, SSW Projects 0 Comments

At SSW we build software for a large range of clients, from start ups to massive enterprises and even our own internal projects. We care that the software we build is secure, maintainable and testable. Successful devs use great tools, great frameworks, and follow best practices. Choosing great tools like ReSharper and Octopus Deploy is […]

March 11, 2015

What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 and ALM 2015

Adam Cogan Visual Studio 1 Comment

I’m off to Europe for the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo and the Xamarin Hack Day in Slovenia.  Of course I’ll be talking about Visual Studio 2015 and all things mobile.  At SSW we’ve been using Visual Studio 2015 on a few projects and it’s a bigger change than I expected. Thanks to a new/refreshing/cool/awesome […]

February 11, 2015

The Agile Olympics – it’ll be Scrumtacular

Adam Cogan Scrum, User groups 0 Comments

It’s no secret that I love Scrum. I’m a Scrum.org certified trainer and delight in teaching courses across the country. We follow Scrum at SSW – not just the developers, but the graphic design, marketing, and multi-media teams as well. I even use it at home with my family and for my kids’ soccer team. […]

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