Windows Azure Perth Meetup Wrapped Up

13 responses to “Windows Azure Perth Meetup Wrapped Up”

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   Jesse

   June 14, 2012

   Was a great night and thanks for the invite, free beer and prizes! 🙂
   Great to meet some other developers in Perth and look forward to future events!
   ps. you typoed my name in the article above 😉

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   Robin

   June 14, 2012

   Thanks to all the Lifehacker people who arranged last night. Was a lot of fun, and it was great to get to meet a lot of new faces. Looking forward to the next one!

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   Stove

   June 14, 2012

   I’m still devastated about losing out in the tiebreaker round.

   It was a good evening, I’ll definitely be coming along to any future lifehacker events.

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      c

      June 14, 2012

      Yes, thanks very much to LifeHacker and Angus and Danny for organising a great, fun night. It’s great that you’re able to foster the developer community like this, and I’ll definitely attend the next meet up.

      And sorry Stove, it’s now forever burned into my memory that Redmond is not an American state 😉

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         Stove

         June 14, 2012

         I’ll forgive you. If I hadn’t missed that question earlier, we could have skipped the tiebreaker and gone straight to the celebratory mice.

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      Brinley Ang

      June 14, 2012

      At least you scored a visual studio box set! Thanks to MS for sponsering the eventhttp://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/06/windows-azure-perth-meetup-wrapped-up/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LifehackerAustralia+%28Lifehacker+Australia%29&utm_content=Google+Reader&replytocom=129406#respond

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   Daniel

   June 14, 2012

   Hi guys just want to say thanks for a great night I really enjoyed it!!!

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5. 

   Heather

   June 14, 2012

   Thanks for a great night, challenging questions and to network with like minded tech heads 🙂 will definitely be in on the next event!

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   Michael

   June 14, 2012

   Looking forward to the next one, I wasn’t feeling well and left very early.

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   Craig

   June 14, 2012

   It was a really fun evening – as evidenced by my humiliating trapdoor-head photo above. I hadn’t realized how vendor driven the evening would be, so on arrival I was a bit apprehensive about the strong MS/Azure presence. On the other hand, I was pleasantly surprised by the free beer.

   I learned something. Microsoft may not be able to do traditional advertising, but they’re really good at hosting/sponsoring social events. Kudos to the hosts for a fun, non-pushy social evening that also interested me in their stuff despite my usual *nix-leanings. I’ll be doing some PostgreSQL testing and benchmarking on Azure soon – lets see how many fsync()s per second those VMs can do.

   I’m up for more such events, with or without the vendor-and-beer aspect.

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   Craig

   June 14, 2012

   Also, there was another caption that DIDN’T get published – and could’t be. Have fun guessing what it was in the comments.

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9. 

   Jon Hayward

   June 14, 2012

   Thanks for the evening, definitely enjoyed it and I think I managed to stay out of focus on all the photos! Plus the Arc Mouse is a damn sweet piece of kit.

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10. 

    Matt

    June 15, 2012

    Thanks for a great meetup! Coming from a heavy mac/linux background, I wasn’t really holding out much for Azure but after having a chat with the MS rep, I think I’ve come away enlightened. I can’t say I’ll be using Azure on any of my projects soon but that’s definitely more for the nature of cloud than anything the platform lacks. I’ve certainly learned something, thanks again for the evening and new mouse!

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