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It’s So Important To Keep Talent In Ohio

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

My jaw dropped this morning as I read Chester Finn’s Wall Street Journal opinion piece titled The Self-Inflicted Economic Death of Ohio.  First, because the piece quantified some of my gut feelings about Ohio’s talent drain, and second, because of the magnitude of the problem.  Mr. Finn, a Dayton native, serves as the president of [...]

Uh…Boss? I Need More Money

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Holy freakin’ cow.  I just passed $4.15 gas at the Princeton and 747 UDF.  Geez, glad I filled up yesterday.  I just can’t catch a break.  Seems the last two years we burned through the max on our flexible medical spending accounts by, say, MARCH. WTF?  Last year my daughter Meredith broke her femur, yeah [...]

June CINNUG – Back To The Future

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Woah, I had a Back To The Future moment last night.  I suppose that reference, alone, dates me.  Yep, I’m old.  Got an 11-year old daughter.  So what was so back-to-the-future about last night?  Quick Solutions’ Tim Wingfield covered Microsoft’s (holy-cow-it’s-about-time) implementation of MVC for ASP.NET (resources below).  I hear that if you go to [...]

June OWASP – Injection Attacks

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

JP Sklenka’s posse from Cintas showed up at today’s OWASP event at the Citi offices in Blue Ash.  Cintas had four people there!  Kudos to them for taking visible steps towards application security.  I also ran into Russ McMahon from UC.  Wayne Browning was in town today and attended part of the event.  And it [...]

Professional Networking – Facing The Room

Friday, June 20th, 2008

This series of posts on building your personal networking skills is meant to serve a couple of purposes. If you remember from one of my first posts I’m hoping that skilled networkers may pick up a gem or two to add to their understanding. These posts also serve those who are not good [...]

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