SQL Server + pizza = excited QUT students

Peter Ward and Charles Sturling have driven excitement to about 25 QUT students during the SQL Server Campus Event. We have seen SQL Server Business Intelligence Technologies, especially SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

 

Students warming up of excitements for a friday afternoon

Students that wish to further their knowledge in SQL Server, the next QSSUG is on Thurs, 24 May 2007

Venue: Microsoft Brisbane Office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle Street

Duration : Catering from 5:30PM for a 6:00PM Start

Please check http://www.qssug.org/ and RSVP to peter@wardyit.com will help with catering

 

Peter Ward presents SQL Server 2005 to QUT students

It is with great pleasure to have Peter Ward presenting SQL Server 2005 at the Queensland University of Technology on May the 4th.

“Peter Ward is WARDY IT Solutions Chief Technical Architect. Peter is an active member in the Australian SQL Server community and President of the Queensland SQL Server User Group. Peter is a highly regarded speaker at SQL Server events throughout Australia and is a sought after SQL Server consultant and trainer, providing solutions for some of the largest SQL Server sites in Australia. Peter is a regular author for several SQL Server websites and has published numerous articles in the monthly SQL Server newsletter that he produces along with the highly acclaimed WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Blog. Peter has been selected as a Spotlight speaker for the 2007 SQL Pass Community Summit, the largest SQL Server event in the world and has recently been awarded as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his technical excellence and commitment to the SQL Server Community” – http://wardyit.com/about.aspx

Students will have the privilege to understand the importance of SQL Server in the industry and tackle the best features of SQL Server 2005. They will also be introduced the SQL Server community based in Brisbane, the Queensland SQL Server User Group.

I find this event a great opportunity for QUT students to hear from a professional user of SQL Server sharing his valuable knowledge. It is also encouraging and motivating students starving of technology.

 

Invitation to SQL Server talk @ QUT

 

The Faculty of Information Technology invites you to the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 campus event.

In this event, you will be presented with key SQL Server 2005 features and understand the importance of SQL Server in the industry.  Free Pizzas and drinks will be provided and Visual Studio Express Editions including SQL Server 2005 Express. 

Event details:

• Speaker: Peter Ward (Solution Chief Technical Architect and MVP Windows Server System – SQL Server)
• Date: 04-May-2007
• Time: 15:00 – 17:00
• Venue: S405a, S block, GP
• Admission: FREE! 

Agenda:

• 15:00 – 15:30 – Pizza and soft drinks
• 15:30 – 15:40 – Introduction
• 15:40 – 16:00 – Importance of SQL Server in the industry
• 16:00 – 16:50 – SQL Server 2005 Features
• 16:50 – 17:00 – Locknote and QSSUG info 

To help organize with seats and pizzas & drinks, please RSVP to g.tchenpan@qut.edu.au

Hope to see you there!

 

‘Wow’ Launch @ QUT

Last Friday 16th March at QUT, students have gathered up for the Windows Vista/Office and ImagineCup 2007 Campus Launch Event. Over 230 students came to see the WOW of Windows Vista, Office 2007 system, and Imagine Cup 2007.

Marty Gnanananthan and Charles Sterling have superbly presented and have motivated the entire audience to upgrade to Vista and Office 2007. As most of the audience came from the Faculty of IT, the agenda covered:

• Windows Vista (Marty & Charles)
• Office 2007 Ultimate and itsnotcheating promo (Charles & Marty)
• Expression & WPF (Charles)
• ImagineCup 2007 (Griffith)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/griffithtp/sets/72157600004567777/

Lucky top price winner, Hi-End MS Optical Mouse

Many thanks to the Microsoft DPE team (particularly Marty, Charles, and Bernard Oh) for the support and resources; Jason Weiss from QUT, to help in booking the venue. Also ITSA (IT Student Association) for helping distributing Vista DVDs.

 

Sidebar Gadget, first click when upgraded to Vista?

In Windows 98, 2000, and XP my first mouse click intuition after upgraded OS was surely on the Start button, appart from the welcome startup page. With Vista, alot of users would have clicked on the sidebar gadget before of the Start button, taking over 15mins to find what cool gadgets to add to the sidebar. How long did you take (or waste) to play with gadgets I must admit I play with them on regular basis; that is, playing with settings, looking for new ones, and start creating my own.

Alright gadgets are gadgets; they can add a “cool” factor. Like all small apps and toolkits, some can be useful and others very useless. Can gadgets prove useful for work?

 

Vista/Office 2007 – ImagineCup S410, S block, Gardens Point, QUT

 

Sent out  to all Faculty of IT students an invitation email to see and feel the WOW of Windows Vista. In just two days, there are already over 160 rsvps stuck in my outlook! Great, the 210 seats lecture room will be packed!

Windows Vista, Office 2007, Imagine Cup 2007 event details:

Date: 16-March-2007

Time: 15:30 – 17:00

Venue: S410, S block, GP

Admission: FREE!

(Agenda subject to change)

 

ImagineCup promo to ITB/N218 students

This early morning (9am !!!) i presented the ImagineCup 2007 to the ITB/N218 – application programming class. 9am is probably too early for students to turn up – small audience of 20. There will be a repeat class this friday, hoping more students will come for this lecture.

Thanks Jack for the pictures and lecturer Michael Adams for allowing the presentation to happen.

 

Insane MS Office 2007 promotion!

It’s not cheating…

• to be a University Student!
• to buy Microsoft Office 2007 ULTIMATE for $25/year!
• or to buy Microsoft Office 2007 ULTIMATE for $75 outright!
• or try it for FREE!
• Use the Street Team Member MSP7

http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au

 

Which one are you?

 

MSP bootcamp

Yey i met other MSP during the bootcamp last week.

The bootcamp was pretty exciting for me! the corp. paid for travel & hotel, had a visit tour of Microsoft Building and meet important MS staffs. I also met other MSPs of course from Deakin, Uni of Melb, UNSW, UTS, Hobart, Uni of Syd. Unfortunately I was the only one from Queensland so didn’t get to meet any from UQ.

In the agenda we’ve seen demo of Vista (presented by Sara Alag), Office 2007 (Angus Logan), and Web techs (Michael Kordahi).

All of these demo were good! even though most of us have already seen hundreds of times.

The best features of Vista for me is the graphics of course, search, and Security. Office 2007 has got even better and bigger. Michael has shown us some pretty cool and geek WPF & AJAX websites like Spyk Property Search, Wikipedia Explorer, New York Times Reader.