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DDD Melbourne's agenda voting opens on November 8. Anyone can take part in the voting process (though your vote counts for more if you're a ticket holder!) How does it work? Read on to find out! #DDDMelb #agenda #voting #techcommunity

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We are so excited to hear that DDD Brisbane is SOLD out! 🎉 Our very own Bryden Oliver is presenting a fun but valuable talk about what to do when deployments go wrong! 😅 Come and join the fun as Bryden tackles a broken website deployment, filled with heartache and hilarity. You'll learn what not to do, key things to monitor, and how to get things back on track. Starting with the basics, Bryden will use real-time monitoring tools to solve issues, discuss how team culture affects success, and cover the best steps to take post-recovery. We hope you leave laughing—and learning! Good luck Bryden and have fun tomorrow Brisbane Developers! 👏🏻 #DevCommunity #TechTalk #Deployments #devwarstories

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Only 4% of early-stage NZ SaaS businesses manage to cross the $3m ARR threshold each year*. Why? Many think they have Product-Market Fit (PMF), but they haven't. Often early-stage SaaS businesses struggle to align their products with market needs, leading to wasted potential and missed opportunities. This challenge is not just about business—it's about realising a vision and avoiding the common pitfalls that lead to unrealised potential. 'First Steps to Product-Market Fit' is a kiwiSaaS Masterclass presented by Ian Daniel, Lead Product Management Trainer at Brainmates. It will equip you with the tools to validate and refine your product with confidence. Working around your busy life, this series of interactive online sessions offers high value: • Workshop 1: Friday 10 May 2024, 9AM - 1PM (Market Opportunity assessment) • Workshop 2: Monday 20 May 2024, 1PM - 5PM (Business Opportunity assessment) • 1-hour personal Coaching Session: 21 - 30 May 2024 (times to be confirmed with participants) Designed precisely for early-stage SaaS businesses, this kiwiSaaS Masterclass is for you if:  • You have a product but haven’t validated market need and potential  • Have launched your product but struggle to attract customers  • Find converting trial users to paying customers challenging Hurry, places are limited! Find details and book at: https://bit.ly/3JetBSp *(Data collected by kiwiSaaS community based on 743 revenue-earning NZ SaaS companies in 2023. Average annual conversion rate to $3m+ ARR band during the period 2016-2023.) #kiwisaas #masterclass #productmarketfit #harnesspotential  Kathryn Shepherd-King Paul Wissam

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Can’t decide on the best technology approach for your business? Steal this blueprint generated by AWS Professional Services for ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission). The proof of concept report (link in comments) outlines the trial comparing the quality of long document summarization between humans and AI. While humans won with a large margin, the preferred model tested (Llama 2) is already two generations behind - but the methodology is valuable for businesses managing rapid technology advancements. It covers: -Evaluating a business function. -Creating and following evaluation rubric. -Documenting test conditions that make it easier to replicate or modify in the future. -Recording lessons learned. -Limiting scope and timeline to arrive at a conclusion on a tight schedule. -Dealing with the speed of technology changes. Designating some time for research and development is essential to take advantage of new opportunities. Creating a tight-scale proof of concept helps to reduce investment and potential downsides. Are you ready to apply this approach to your next tech decision? 

Devfest Auckland Speaker Spotlight: Isaac Udy is an experienced Android engineer with nearly a decade in the industry. Throughout his career, he has worked with teams of all sizes and discovered a deep passion for improving engineering effectiveness within organizations. Over the past three years, Isaac has made significant contributions to platform and enablement teams at Xero and ANZ, where he's built developer tools, provided architectural guidance, and spent many hours pair programming. His interests span navigation, architecture, testing, developer experience, and modularization. Isaac is always eager to engage in discussions and hear about your own projects, so don't hesitate to strike up a conversation! At Devfest Auckland 2024, Isaac will delve into the world of code generation in Android. He will explore how, as software engineers, we often rely on repetitive and mundane boilerplate code, which third-party libraries like Dagger/Hilt or Room help mitigate through code generation. While code generation may initially seem like a mysterious or advanced concept, Isaac will demonstrate that it’s an accessible tool anyone can leverage to solve problems and boost productivity. In this session, Isaac will cover the fundamentals of code generation on Android, the tools you can use, and the types of problems it can solve. He’ll also share practical tips and tricks, ensuring you leave the session confident and ready to experiment with code generation in your own projects! Join us for this year's developer festival, packed with the latest tech innovations, insightful talks, hands-on workshops, and great networking opportunities. Visit https://lnkd.in/gfXzKqsY to learn more and reserve your spot! #GDG #GDGC #DevFestAuckland #DF24 #Google #Mobile #Web #AI #Flutter #Firebase #Android #Kotlin #Gemini #GCP #GoogleCloud #Networking #Community #Auckland #Technology

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# Melbourne Compose - will it prove a worthy successor to Melbourne Scala? Many of you will know that I organised Melbourne Scala User Group meetings for about 12 years. We had some great times! This post is about Melbourne Compose, a successor group to Melbourne Scala that I have started with John Walker, who runs the Melbourne Haskell meetup [https://lnkd.in/gzAmbsH7]. Join the group at https://lnkd.in/gFmDh-nz I believe Melbourne Scala expired due to a combination of - Covid and the post-covid rise of WFH work culture which greatly reduced in-person meetup activity across the city - The lack of a sponsor to cover the steadily rising fees charged by Meetup.com. If you don't payup $300+ a year, they don't just disable new events, they delete the entire group! (er.. no thanks, we'll take our business elsewhere) - A decline in activity around Scala, and functional programming generally, in Australia, (eg the loss of Lambdajam conference :cry:). People asked me afterward whether there would be a future Melbourne Scala, and then John and I got into a fruitful conversation about merging our efforts. We talked about what motivated us to run a meetup/user group in the first place. And we looked at what has been working elsewhere, such as Brisbane's BFPG [https://lnkd.in/gWErd4di] and Sydney's SydFP [https://lnkd.in/gdwn4dqB]. And formed some opinions.. Firstly, the world has a surplus of online content. So much community and content have gone online that there's little demand for more. And do people really want to be on zoom after hours when they already spent the workday online? However, the online experience is not the same as in person (IRL). While online is convenient, it is also lacking the spontaneity and social connection that physical company offers. I find communication via zoom etc plain exhausting, even after much practice. It is suited to broadcast model where one presents and others listen. But spontaneous conversation & collaboration feels stunted. Secondly, it seems that multi -language and-technology user-groups prove more resilient than narrower, focused groups. As well as drawing from a wider base, they can better adapt to evolving technology trends. And so, John and I decided we wanted to focus on a group whose charter spanned the breadth of "Typed Functional Programming" and which includes regular in-person gatherings. We realise that in this post-Covid world, IRL gatherings will likely be small. It's more effort to head out from home, than coming on to a city meetup after the office. But when I think back to some of the early meetings of Melbourne Scala, how awesome they were, and how much I learned and grew from those experiences, I do hope "Small is beautiful". (Cut due to word limit. Continued in Part 2)

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Venture firms in $10m raise for fact-checking software This Melbourne team (picture) run a profitable business that provides fact-checking software. They have now raised $10.84 million in venture capital to scale up the business. Read more about this, and much more about private equity and venture capital, at: https://lnkd.in/gE-aPUTb #venturecapital #privateequity

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Why we switched to Supabase... Tim Riley is our CTO, and he's a damn fine hand at all things development. So good that we had our auth completely built out before he turned to me one day and said "I think we should switch to Supabase". Which I was on board with, for one key reason. Tech debt. Tech debt is a killer in small teams, and every feature we add is another feature that Tim or I have to figure out how to manage, support, and ensure is compliant, while still being valuable to our end users. Supabase solves a lot of that for us, and makes it fun! Tim has been talking to me during the process about the DX and how refreshing it is! So now, Easy Manage is powered by Supabase. Check it out, it's pretty cool. #supabase #techdebt #startup #easymanage

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Since John Allsopp mentioned the View Transitions API at Web Directions Code 2023 in Melbourne, I've been closely tracking its progress. Experimenting with it in Angular Spotify has been a joy. While my PR is still a work in progress for a single-page app like Angular Spotify (https://lnkd.in/gY6zQnBi)), it's exciting to see the View Transitions API advancing to a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Moreover, it now supports multi-page apps (MPAs), with the draft for cross-document navigation currently in public working draft status. This breakthrough means transitioning between pages in traditional multi-page apps, including those built with server-side rendering frameworks like ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Ruby, or static site generators such as Jekyll or Hugo, feels incredible with just @view-transition and view-transition-name in CSS! I've detailed my experiments with the View Transitions API for cross-documents. Check it out 👉 https://lnkd.in/gkRprFxt

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🚀 Boosting Tech Adoption: Strategies to Get Your Team on Board Invested in new tech but facing low adoption rates? Logitech ANZ’s recent roundtable with top tech decision-makers revealed strategies to overcome this challenge: 🔹 Assess Needs: Ensure new tech genuinely addresses a need or problem within your team. 🔹 Onboarding: Provide comprehensive training to highlight the value and functionality of the new solution. 🔹 Nurture Existing Tools: Track and encourage the use of tech to maximise your investments. 🔹 Reminders: Keep the tech top-of-mind to prevent old habits from taking over. 🔹 Feedback Loop: Solicit feedback to understand and address concerns, making the team feel heard and valued. Embrace these strategies to enhance tech adoption and drive successful digital transformation. 🔗 More from Logitech: https://loom.ly/5Yf3jNw #TechAdoption #DigitalTransformation #ITStrategy

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❓ Should we trust AI with information security and compliance? 💥 How important is GDPR for Australian tech startups? 💪 What do the biggies like Atlassian, Dovetail and ZoomInfo do to secure their data? Hear what our panel of experts had to say in today's Startup Daily webinar in association with Vanta: COMPLIANCE = GROWTH: The 'A-HA Moment' for Australian SaaS startups. WATCH CATCHUP NOW: https://lnkd.in/g_9YKkM9

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Our CTO Pierre Bergamin joined Startup Daily and Vanta to discuss how security and compliance is foundational to the success of InDebted's global scale. 🌍 From ISO 27001, SOC 2 and GDPR, having robust security and compliance protocols is core to how we protect consumer outcomes, while safeguarding the reputation of our clients. 🔒 Register to watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/g_9YKkM9 Thank you to Simon Thomsen, Oscar Watson-Smith and Andrea Gardiner for a great conversation! #InDebted #Trust #Compliance #Security #Vanta #StartupDaily

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What a great panel discussion on the importance of cyber security compliance for startups. Too many focus on building their product and taking it to market only to head butt against a roadblock to an enterprise or government sale; the customers requirement for security compliance accreditation. Vanta can help with this. And it is so much more cost-effective to build in security compliance from the outset. Jelix portfolio company, SafeStack can help upskill your developers and software architects to build in security from the beginning.

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Felgo has teamed up with Codecept Software Pty Ltd to bring you QML Hot Reload as well as their complete SDK! QML Hot Reload - The *only* Hot Reload system for QML! * Now available as a standalone product! * With QML Hot Reload you can: - Edit Properties, Bindings and JavaScript Logic - Modify any part of the QML Tree - even Singletons! - Preserve visual state during run-time while changing the UI! - Display errors and rollback changes - Save Hours of Development Time, Every Day - Iterate with Lightning-Fast Speed - Run on any desktop, web or embedded platform - at the same time! PLUS! QML Hot Reload works with Qt6 and QML Modules! Felgo, with Codecept Software are excited to provide special offers on these two amazing products so please contact Mike Trahearn for details! "If you improve your efficiency by saving up two hours per month, then Felgo Hot Reload has already repaid itself." - Davy Kox, Senior Software Designer, Sioux Technologies QML Hot Reload in action: https://lnkd.in/dH9kUHpX Check out the full Felgo SDK: https://felgo.com/ #Qt #QML #QMLHotReload #SpecialOffers

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