SSW User Group Special: Handsome man Hanselman is coming to Sydney

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT! RSVP'ING ON MEETUP DOES NOT GUARANTEE YOU A SEAT.
Tickets are available here: http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/netug/hanselman-user-group-special.aspx

This User Group is running 1 week earlier than usual

Scott Hanselman is in Australia as a special guest presenter at YOW!Australia and will be stopping in Sydney to talk at an extra-special Sydney user group, where he will be presenting two 1-hour sessions:

Azure – why bother?
Join Hanselman as he digs into the open source SDKs of Windows Azure from a Mac. Let's access Azure from the command line and deploy and redeploy with Git. We'll fire up Linux VMs, setup Mongo and run node.js apps in the cloud. We'll look at things like SendGrid and New Relic. The future of the cloud is open and it's a hybrid. We'll also pinch pennies in the cloud and look at how our mindset needs to change if the cloud is to save us money.

Hanselman Unplugged – open Q&A
As the title suggests, this is your chance to ask Scott any questions on life at Microsoft, the future direction of .NET and any other technical or pop culture geek questions you may have.

About Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com/ (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhanselman.com%2F&h=VAQGI3xBr&enc=AZM20EE4PVsVkAFZ-M82ofwURCazOIQQWfsydgSHtitQDk7pZA4uW8CCUGJKqj_NJoI&s=1) for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland.

Scott has three podcasts, http://hanselminutes.com/ for tech talk, http://thisdeveloperslife.com/ (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdeveloperslife.com%2F&h=pAQEQDTJ-&enc=AZNobMluHynG9Om4UFBldV27pYW349YSTzODeNtrQI6_6b3jyEX84YkrSjGBJjHo7SA&s=1) on developers' lives and loves, and http://ratchetandthegeek.com/ (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fratchetandthegeek.com%2F&h=WAQECV7aK&enc=AZPVlFM0cknnSd1davSFYj8rkRzuWlPk6aCObe6XpSQd4jGGeVMaAzC38aNUQ5N-6Q0&s=1) for pop culture and tech media. He's written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide.

Demand for this event has been massive. To get a ticket, visit http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/netug/hanselman-user-group-special.aspx before they run out!

If you miss out on a ticket, the event will be live-streamed at http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/NETUG/Live.aspx