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 was great running into Marco and Allison.  James Walden, Ph.D. and assistant professor at NKU did a fabulous job with application injection attacks.  Frankly, I expected a run-of-the-mill SQL injection talk.  James took it deep and had me engaged for the entire hour. [...]

Not a whole lot of activity the last week or so and I took a short break from writing. Probably a good thing as you can see what happens when I come up with my own ideas. It looks like my last one went over like a ton of bricks. Perhaps I shouldn’t care that companies want to leave Cincinnati as geography probably doesn’t matter any more, and at the Agile Round Table last night we talked a bit about how a single developer and a computer have the lowest startup cost when starting a new business. Couple a niche market with a single developer and low cost independent of geography and its probably a win-win all around. I’d like your thoughts. Does the Cincinnati IT community really matter? [...]

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

This week flew by with so much community activity going on. I have a couple more posts in the pipeline waiting for me to find time to finish them. With a fairly animated week ahead I’ll do my best to get this stuff out as quickly as I can.

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We’ll review OWASP in a moment. First I wanted to give you an update on the week. This upcoming week should be pretty interesting. Monday, Microsoft will hold a Service Lifecycle Management seminar at their Mason offices. Then Monday evening (and the two following Mondays) seniors in UC’s College of Applied Science (CAS) IT program will present functional prototypes of their senior designs. Tuesday is the Agile Round Table. On Thursday, LUCRUM CEO, John Bostick, and I will lead a discussion with Xavier professor Tim Kloppenborg’s Project Management class. I’m looking forward to a lively discussion there. [...]

Okay, the part you really need to read is at the end of this post. I wanted to do a wrap up of the week and that is the intro material you’ll find first.

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I still can’t make up my mind which group I would like to attend on Tuesday.  See the sidebar calendar for details.  All along I’ve been thinking SQL Server, but the OWASP content is something I’m really interested in this month.

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