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Marlon is the program manager at FireBootCamp. When you apply to attend he will be the first person you speak to. He is also the Sales Manager at SSW.

I have learnt how to train developers in the shortest time possible

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I have learnt how to train developers in the shortest time possible Adam Cogan General 0 Comments My goal over the years has been to shrink the time for a developer to learn a new technology so they are job ready. A couple of weekends ago, I was invited onto the Locknote panel at this year’s DDD Sydney conference. The topic of discussion was learning. The two most common questions asked were: What is the most effective way to learn? How do you retain the most valuable information? So I decided to write this blog post about it. At SSW…

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Lessons Learned Building Real World Angular 2 Apps

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Watch Duncan and Adam explain the good the bad and the ugly of working with Angular 2 on real world projects over the past 6 months. We use Angular 2 because of the performance, it’s mobile friendly and flexible. Sweet! Happy Users, Happy Developers, Happy Business. Awesome! …. but there are so many You will have happy users, happy developers and a happy business. Awesome! …. but there are so many options and so many unanswered questions. This session will de-mystify Angular 2 and show you the pitfalls to avoid when building Angular 2 in production. Watch to see how we…

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The Definitive List of Angular 2 Resources to Get You Started

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Since it was first released by the Google team in 2009, AngularJS has shot to fame as one of the best JavaScript frameworks available today. Where we used to struggle to maintain and test sprawling spaghetti code, Angular neatly bundles your work into a tidy, testable framework that makes both developing and maintaining Single Page Applications easier than ever. Of course, we say Angular makes things easier, not easy. It greatly simplifies the development process, but AngularJS is a mammoth framework, and there’s much to learn. It’s also matured a lot over the last few years, and now when you try to look up...
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How to market yourself as a developer

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As a developer marketing is probably the last topic you think about. But the reality is the best jobs go to the people who are well connected. If you want to work for the best companies on projects using the latest technologies for a salary you deserve then you need to market yourself. John Sonmez is the expert on teaching developers how to market themselves and has quite a remarkable career. He’s the founder of Simple Programmer, he published over 50 courses on Pluralsight, he hosts the Get Up and CODE podcast and he’s a life coach for software developers….

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Meet Duncan – A FireBootCamp student that went from dietitian to professional developer in 9 weeks.

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It’s never too late to start over.   In this interview, Duncan Hunter, a FireBootCamp alumnus tells us a little bit more about his experience at FireBootCamp and how he changed careers only a few months ago. Changing careers could be the best decision you ever make, watch this inspiring story and learn more about Duncan and FireBootCamp. Who is Duncan Hunter? I am a Software Architect at SSW who loves working in passionate teams to make awesome software. Making software that people love and solves real world issues is what makes me tick. I made a dramatic career change in…

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How to Use Hot Towel Angular with Duncan Hunter

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This presentation is a walk through of the code, benefits and how to get started using John Papa’s Hot Towel Angular. Hot Towel Angular creates a great starting point for building a Single Page Application (SPA). Out of the box it provides a modular structure for your code, view navigation, data binding, separation of services, and simple but elegant styling. Hot Towel provides everything you need to build a SPA, so you can focus on your app, not the plumbing.

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Website Security | Protecting Your Web Apps from the Tyranny of Evil with OWASP – Troy Hunt

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If you’re on the web, you’re a target. Hacktivists, career criminals and nation states are all pounding on the proverbial door of websites as soon as they go online and it’s frequently the same set of risks being exploited over and over again. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has created the Top 10 Web Application Security Risks as a means of describing and prioritizing these risks and most importantly, demonstrating how your applications can defend against them. This presentation walks through the Top 10 risks and explains what they are, shows how they’re exploited then most importantly, demonstrates…

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