Join this worldwide event from your place in Aotearoa. The event is for IT Implementers and Enterprise Developers, with a choice of more than 50 short, technical sessions from level 200-400. It will be demo heavy and slide light! Sound good? Join the event here. Stream the exclusive keynotes from Scott Guthrie, Jason Zander, Bill Staples, Scott Hanselman, Mark Russinovich and other Azure engineer gurus. Join live Q&As and interact with the architects and engineers who are building the latest features. Get started with some quick Azure facts:
Hybrid: Create new applications while adding value to existing investment by extending your data center to the cloud
Best for business: With more Gartner MQ leadership positions than any other cloud vendor and more regions than AWS and Google combined
Open & Flexible: Embraces open source technologies but also creates a first class experience for all of your business applications (i.e. SAP, Oracle, Cloudera, etc.)
Trustworthy: Microsoft has provided detailed information showing how the Azure cloud platform addresses all of the data sovereignty, security and privacy questions set out in the 105 question due diligence framework issued by the NZ Government Chief Information Officer, who's responsible for providing guidance on how NZ government organizations should adopt cloud computing
Put it in your diary to join the Azure experts and people like you from everywhere around the world at the end of this month.
Dirk Develter Cloud and Enterprise Lead Microsoft New Zealand
Microsoft Ignite NZ wraps up See what the 2,500 techies from across New Zealand got up to last week. As well as 140+ technical sessions, there were Exam Cram sessions, Surface Hands on Labs, the Women in Technology event, the Keynote and Kick-Off and the Hub Happy Hour to wrap up each day. Relive your favourie sessions, or view them for the first time at Channel9.
Office 365 REST APIs Integrate Office 365 REST APIs into your own app to connect to files, calendars, mail and other data stored in the cloud. Visit the Office Dev Center for more resources, including Office Add-ins (formerly Apps for Office) to extend the functionality of Office with a web app that lives within Office applications. See more here.
Making great apps for Windows The Windows 10 by 10 development series will cover how device families support user interactions with your app, how your app can respond and adapt to the device it's being used on, and what we’re providing in the platform so you don’t have to write complex code.
Recap: top Visual Studio updates from August A lot has happened on the Azure side of the house in the last couple of months. We wanted to give you some of the highlights in case you aren’t already following the Azure blog, focusing especially on items that are most relevant to developers using Visual Studio. Check out the highlights here.
Docker Global Hack Day #317 September (Auckland) We are keen to host a Docker Global Hack Day #3 local version. The plan at this time would be for teams to come together on the Thursday evening where we will as a group watch the Docker videos. On the Saturday it would be great to do a whole day hack - with a venue to be decided. There is plenty of cool swag for those taking part. Code Club Aotearoa - Information Night16 September (Wellington) Code Club is a nationwide network of free volunteer-led after-school coding clubs for Kiwi kids. This meetup is an opportunity to come along and find out more; like how to get involved, see the awesome resources, and ask questions to people involved in the Wellington based Code Clubs. Christchurch .NET User Group - The Pragmatic Programmer18 September (Christchurch) The Pragmatic Programmer (by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas) remains thoroughly relevant to the modern developer. Come along and learn some of what makes this book still enlightening and how we can (respectfully) update it for 2015. Startup Weekend Palmerston North11 - 13 September (Palmerston North) The Palmerston North event is education themed. And there's a lot of learning to be done! Startup weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups! Startup Weekend Whangarei18 - 20 September (Whangarei) Follow the conversation on #swwhg to stay up to date on the 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups! NZ Game Developers Conference10 - 11 September (Auckland) NZGDC Conference features more than 20 hours of hand-picked sessions across 4 different topic streams, international speakers, and over 300 of your fellow game developers. #AzureCon