CINNUG Blog

December 2006 - Posts

• Code Camp Presentation Submission Deadline Extended

  If you were one of the 70+ people who have downloaded the presentation submission form for the Code Camp but haven't gotten it to us yet, well, your deadline has just been extended to January 29th!  Now you'll be able to shake off the New Year Fog of Vacation and sort through all the holiday bills, as well as spend ten minutes to fill out the submission form and send it in. Posted Dec 30 2006, 02:30 PM by MikeWo with 4 comment(s) Filed under: General News

• Membership Drive - Join in and possibly win a ZUNE!

  CINNUG is having a membership drive starting in December and lasting through our meeting in February.  At the end of the membership drive we will be giving away a new Microsoft Zune music player and possible even an Xbox 360! Here's how it works: You must be a registered member of the www.cinnug.org website.  Registration is free! For each meeting you attend (December, January and February) you will receive an entry into the drawing for the Zune. For each new person you bring to a meeting (and they also register on the www.cinnug.org site) you will receive an additional entry for the Zune.  Once they have attended a meeting and signed up on the website they are no longer considered new, but if they come to another meeting bringing new people then they can increase their own odds. On the normal signup sheet at the meetings there will be a new column to include who brought you (make sure you include the email address they use on the site!). When signing in at the meetings you must include the exact email address used to sign up on the website in order for accurate record keeping of your entries. No circular references allowed (aka, two new people can’t show up together and put that they were each referred by the other). You must be present to win at the February meeting. What about the Xbox360?  We have an attendance goal of 60 people for our February meeting.  If we reach that goal then we will give away an Xbox 360 in addition to the Zune!  The same entries used to pull the Zune winner would be used to get the Xbox 360 winner as well, so the more people you bring the better your chances of getting either prize. If you have questions about the membership drive, then contact us.  The Xbox 360 and the Zune are being provided by our regional Developer Evangelist Drew Robbins. Posted Dec 10 2006, 12:50 PM by MikeWo with 4 comment(s) Filed under: General News

• Free Seminar on Service Oriented Architecture! Dec 13th!

  December 13 Breakfast Free to Business Executives and IT Professionals A free breakfast seminar about service-oriented architecture and best practices will be hosted by CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) and Microsoft, Wednesday, December 13, 8:30 a.m. at Microsoft’s Heartland District Offices in Mason, Ohio (greater Cincinnati). This free two-and-a-half hour seminar will describe service-oriented architecture (SOA), SOA best practices, benefits, limitations, and what SOA means for businesses—especially mid-market firms and the Cincinnati area market. To learn more, register, and obtain directions, please visit www.ciber.com/events/soa. Registered attendees will receive a free copy of Understanding Enterprise SOA by Eric Pulier, Hugh Taylor, and Paul Gaffney, compliments of Microsoft and CIBER. Dr. Khalid Mansour, Vice President of CIBER’s Global Enterprise Integration Practice, will lead the seminar. Dr. Mansour directs CIBER’s Enterprise Integration team in numerous IT projects that require distinctive expertise, such as enterprise architecture, business intelligence, service-oriented architecture, data warehousing, data governance, event-driven architecture and business continuity/disaster recovery projects. Dr. Mansour has more than 20 years experience leading enterprise integration, strategy, and architecture projects for companies such as Silicon Graphics Incorporated – Federal Division and the U.S. Department of Energy. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information about the seminar or to register online, please visit www.ciber.com/events/soa. The event is free, includes breakfast, and is open to any business executive interested in learning more about service-oriented architecture. Posted Dec 06 2006, 10:27 AM by MikeWo with 4 comment(s) Filed under: General News

• CodeMash early bird registration extended!

  CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held January 18-19, 2007 at the lush Kalahari resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio's largest indoor waterpark. So nobody will frown if you show up in shorts, sandals, and your loudest t-shirt. You might even win a prize for doing so.   You’ll have the opportunity to hear from our best internationally recognized speakers including the following fabulous keynoters:   • Bruce Eckel – Internationally Recognized Speaker and Author of “Thinking in Java” • Neal Ford – Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Recognized Speaker on Languages and Compilers. • Scott Guthrie – General Manager, Microsoft Developer Division.  • Scott Ambler – Internationally Recognized Speaker and Author on Agile Development and Database Refactoring.    Space is limited! The Early Bird price for this conference is only $99. After December 18th, the price will go up to $149. Register today at http://www.codemash.org. Posted Dec 04 2006, 12:17 AM by MikeWo with 4 comment(s) Filed under: General News