Making A Difference

Another awesome CINNUG Tuesday as Joe Wirtley provided an enthusiasts overview of WPF and Parag Joshi showed us how to debug for the XBox with XNA.  Although Joe sees himself as an enthusiast, he did a great job pointing out many of the deep and technical issues involved.  WPF is one of the three pillars [...]

I spent Saturday in Wilmington, OH attending the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus Central Ohio Day of .NET. Here is my admittedly limited view/montage of the whole thing. Kudos to Mike Wood, Jim Holmes, Justin Kohnen, Bob Sledge, Nino Benvenuti, Carey Payette, Dan Hounshell! Great work on an AWESOME event!

Wednesday, I attended the SPIN meeting where Parasoft CEO, Adam Kolawa, spoke to us about the software process that serves as a foundation for his latest book, Automated Defect Prevention: Best Practices in Software Management. Joe Wirtley stepped up again and provided his input from Wednesday’s .NET User Group. The group brought in a [...]

You ever work someplace that blocks access to Yahoo! or Google? Please, allow me to repeat this. It’s important. This is an IT blog. You, as an IT professional, have you ever had to do your job in an environment that blocks access to Yahoo! or Google. Uh…yeah. It’s happened [...]

Okay, I’ve been at this two weeks and had a bit over 120 readers last Friday. I guess that means someone other than my mother is reading this. One goal here is to get high-quality, relevant, timely, and frequent information into your hands quickly. So if the stars align this week there [...]

Hey, next week is the most active week of the month in terms of the user group community in Cincinnati. One of the purposes of this space is to highlight the generally high-quality of the content and information transfer at the different user groups in order to drive attendance. I would estimate 98% [...]