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Introduce Yourself To The Cincinnati IT Community

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Okay, anecdotally I understand that Cincinnati is a great place “to be from” in your IT career. To really accelerate a technical career you have to move to one of the coasts, or Chicago, or Dallas. At least that’s what I’ve heard. The other day this became real for me. I [...]

Testing From Multiple Angles

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I just read Doug Alcorn’s post on Dynamic Constants and Their Pitfalls. Maybe constructing an automated unit test isn’t possible, but this could be caught with static analysis tools if a policy is written that doesn’t allow dynamically constructing constant strings. If automated, then a developer doesn’t need to think about it – [...]

March IIBA – So That’s What A Business Analyst Is

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Do you remember last Tuesday? Cincinnati got something like four feet of rain in about 15 minutes. I dreaded the drive from downtown to Blue Ash, and as traffic crawled along 71 North I figured I’d just hit the lateral and head home up 75. There was no way I was going [...]

Weekly Updates And The Blogroll For March 22nd

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

I’m sitting here watching West Virginia and Duke. 3:11 left, 62-51 WV!!! You GO HUGGINS!

UC College of Applied Science Sr. Design Update – 3 of 3

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

This is it for Senior Design II. We’ve made it through two rounds of presentations, and tonight is the final round. There were some phenomenal presentations tonight. So let’s get right into it.

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