May 09 2017
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Keeping up to code: WOTSO and SSW launch Australia’s first two-day Angular 2 Day Training Workshop

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On Thursday March 2nd, WOTSO WorkSpace in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley played host to SSW FireBootCamp as they ran the first 2-day Angular 2 training workshop in Australia. Angular, the most popular JavaScript framework available today, is used to create web and mobile applications. Millions have been waiting for the release of Angular 2 over the past two years and now that it's finally out, there's lots to learn. Led by expert presenters, the students at WOTSO that morning were there for the first deep-dive training of its kind to cover Angular 2. During the two-day event, the attendees got to…
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Oct 13 2016
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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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Sep 12 2016
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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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May 27 2016
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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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Sep 21 2015
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Why the New York Times is talking about coding camps

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The New York Times recently ran an article about the rise of coding camps, and they’re not alone: a quick search of google shows a plethora of articles about this new phenomenon. As tech booms, the interest in new ways to enter the industry grows. Code camps in particular are getting attention because they represent opportunity for people past university age (although they are attended by people of all ages, including young students). In a world where education costs in the tens of thousands of dollars, and takes years to complete, coding camps offer a new way to reskill, without…
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Sep 10 2015
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FireBootCamp won the Microsoft Australia Partner Award for Excellence in Learning

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Disclaimer: This post originally appeared on adamcogan.com and is reproduced here with his permission 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. FireBootCamp was up against the very best learning institutions in Australia, such as New Horizons and DDLS. To give you an idea of the competition, these 2 companies have about 200 employees, have been in business for close to 20 years, and are known as leading IT technical training and certification companies. I'd like to firstly thank Microsoft.…
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Aug 11 2015
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MAPA: Putting FireBootCamp on the map

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We are delighted to announce that we have been named as finalists in the 2015 Microsoft Australia Partner Awards (MAPA), in the category of Excellence in Learning for our .NET training course, FireBootCamp. Part of why we're so thrilled to have been chosen as finalists is that at FireBootCamp, while we use Microsoft products and methodologies, we don't sell Certified Microsoft courses, which is one of the criteria that Microsoft considers when evaluating the award applicants. That FireBootCamp was selected as a finalist is great testimony that Microsoft recognises our innovative and holistic approach to training, and our fantastic course…
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Dec 19 2014
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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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Dec 03 2014
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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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Sep 10 2014
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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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