I got an email from a recruitment agency this morning, looking for Senior Architects. I asked them if I could put this on my blog, and they said yes.
First of all I apologise for this unsolicited e-mail. I'm currently trying to find 5 Senior .Net Technical Architects for a global consulting company, who'll be working with large Australian corporate companies and was referred to you by Chris Garty. As such, they need to have worked on large enterprise applications and be .Net and OO Gurus. My client is willing to pay an extractive salary for the right candidate, so money is negotiable but roughly around $145K+ is what they're looking at. I could give a lot more detail to the job but don't want to take up to much of your time. If you know of any Senior Architects who may be interested in such a role, feel free to pass on my details. Again, I apologise for this unsolicited e-mail, but everyone I've spoken to is in work and/or not interested in moving. I thank you in advance for any help you can provide
Looks like a great opportunity. If anyone is interested, leave me a comment and I will give you the contact details for the recruitment agency.
** UPDATE ** The roles are all based in Melbourne - my old home town. Just to be clear
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Mitch Denny tells us that there is another Readify blogger - this time it's Chris Hewitt. This brings the total number of bloggers from Readify to seven, eight, which has forced me to created a list of Readify bloggers which I present here for all to see.
Come on Dan - time to update your site - 18 months is way to long!!!!!
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I got a note from the charming Dr Simon Cuce today, asking to me blog about an upcoming work shop he will be running in Melbourne. Looks interesting. Here's to a full workshop Simon
From: Simon CuceSent: Thursday, 25 November 2004 11:13 AMTo: Frank ArrigoSubject: Interesting course
Hi Frank
This might be worth putting on your blog….
I’m running a day long work shop through Monash IT on some of the more common tools used to develop .net applications. (on and beyond VS.NET)
Basically it will cover the main open source tools, but also look at the MS building blocks
It is motivated out of the need to give intermediate developers a taste of the tools needed to build quality .net applications
The link is below
http://www.mit.com.au/microsoft_tech_education/courses/microsoft_nc_170_tools_net_developers.htm
Any publicity would be appreciated….
Simon
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The latest MSDN Flash is out - my first edition for a while. Past editions available on the pirate MSDN Flash Archive
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-----Original Message-----From: Tony KatsabarisSent: Friday, 12 November 2004 3:49 PMSubject: RE: [aus-dotnet] MSDN Pricing
Dear Developer and Partner Community
I have been watching this email string with interest and would like to thank those that have provided feedback.
I feel it only fair to start by explaining some of the reasons for price discrepancy between the US and Australia and New Zealand:
1. Exchange Rates - are reviewed quarterly by MS and the necessary adjustments are made to local pricing accordingly. However, this in general would only account for approximately a 5-10% price difference due to time lag. As a side note, typically, global software companies add a premium of between 30-50% for selling software outside the US. Microsoft does not.
2. Microsoft can only suggest Recommended Retail Price. The ultimate price that our re-sellers charge is outside of MS control. The price at which MS sells to its re-sellers in the US is lineball to the price that it sells to re-sellers in Australia (barring exchange rates). The volume of software sales in the US market is massive compared to the Australian and New Zealand markets. Some re-sellers in the US will actually sell some products at a loss/or no margin i.e. MSDN, in order to capture other software sales i.e. Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately in our smaller markets these models do not work, and thankfully so for our local re-seller communities, as they are already under significant margin pressure.
Having said all this, the developer tools product team in Australia have taken on board some of the feedback you have provided us with over the last 12 months and made important changes to our local MSDN licensing.
The most pertinent of these for our developer community is the following:
* prior to the key change our local MSDN customers were required to meet certain volume hurdles in order to purchase via the more aggressive Open Licensing program. As an example, if you purchased an individual MSDN Universal license you would have to do so via our FPP licensing program and at a cost of approx $5,000 for a 12 month subscription;
* we recently made a change to our licensing that allows for even an individual copy of MSDN to qualify for Open Licensing. This change was made 5 months ago in a hope to improve the MSDN pricing acceptance within the Australian developer market.
An example of the new MSDN Open Licensing offer at work:
* MSDN Universal - License and Software Assurance - 2 year subscription - via Open Licensing - RRP $5,081. This equates to $2,540 per annum and delivers a 50% saving on the existing FPP List Price MSDN Universal.
We are in the final stages of launching a campaign that is designed to inform our developers of the fact that individual MSDN licenses are eligible to be purchased via the Open Licensing program.
In the mean time, if you wish to purchase MSDN via Open, simply ask your preferred re-seller to reference their Product List. The Product List clearly highlights that MSDN now counts as five licenses for the Open Licensing Program.
All customers are now eligible, and have been for 5 months, to purchase their MSDN licenses via Open.
If you require any further details regarding MSDN please feel free to contact me.
Thank you once more for your energetic responses.
Regards
Tony KatsabarisBusiness Development ManagerDeveloper & Platform Strategy GroupMicrosoft Australia
The December MSDN update kicks off this week in Mebourne.
WSE 2.0 represents a significant advance for web service developers. By supporting the creation of web services the implement industry standards like WS-Security and WS- SecureConversation without delving deeply into code or configuration files, WSE cuts down the amount of time developers need to spend addressing plumbing issues, and allows them to concentrate on solving their business issues. This presentation will cover What are the WS-* specifications, and how do they make development simpler? Where does WSE2 fit into the Microsoft messaging product line, and when should I use it (and when should I avoid it)? Building a secure web service using WSE2. An overview of the other functionality that WSE offers. About the presenter Nick Wienholt is an independent Windows and .NET consultant based in Sydney. He is the author of Maximizing .NET Performance from Apress, and specialises in system-level software architecture and development, with a particular focus of performance, security, interoperability and debugging. Calendar of events 23 Nov 18:00 Melbourne 02 Dec 18:00 Sydney Deep .NET, AU 06 Dec 18:00 Auckland, NZ ** update** 07 Dec 11.00 Christchurch, NZ ** update** 07 Dec 18.00 Wellington, NZ ** update** 08 Dec 18.00 Adelaide, AU 09 Dec 18.00 Wollongong, AU 13 Dec 08.00 Perth, AU 14 Dec 18.00 Brisbane, AU 15 Dec 18.00 Gold Coast, AU 16 Dec 16.30 Canberra, AU
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