Digging My Blog

The Cincinnati Reds Opening Day Parade is going on right now and is even being streamed online. If you've never attended the parade then you're missing out on one of Baseball's truly unique traditions. It is really magical. Normally today would be a vacation day for me and I'd be attending the parade...

The second annual Dayton-Cincinnati CodeCamp will be held Saturday, March 24th at the Wingate Inn in West Chester, OH - the same great location as last year. I attended last year and heard a lot of great presentations from guys like Josh Holmes and Dave Donaldson as well as met a bunch of great developers...

This is the second year that some friends and I have competed in the Cincinnati Sports League's Mens flag football league . We play on Wednesday nights at Oakley Athletic Fields. Last year we won our first game and lost our remaining 8 (or 9, but who's counting?). This year we've started...

Brian Prince did a presentation on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF, not WWF!) and BizTalk Server. Brian did a great job as always and the topic was much more interesting than I had feared it would be. WF looks like some really good stuff and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Jim Holmes couldn't stay...

Tellus (where I work!) is looking for .NET Developers to join our team. Tellus is located just north of Cincinnati in the Loveland, OH area. Tellus is an award winning web development company with a national client base and highly experienced team. Our recent client work includes CHEFS Catalog ( http...

or... How going the extra step combined with a little humility makes all the difference in the world. Today I had a crapload, yes - really a CRAPload, of lumber delivered for a deck we are having built. I chose a local company, Warren County Lumber , to be our vendor because they are a bit cheaper than...

Bill Wagner gave a great presentation at the Dayton.NET Developers Group last night. Jim Holmes beat me to the punch - actually I was waiting the appropriate 24 hours before calling dibbs since Jim is the organizer of the group. You can read Jim's commentary along with my comments here . Technorati Tags...

As of midnight last night, under the threat of an AEIF (Armco Employees Independent Federation) union strike, AK Steel of Middletown made an aggresive move and locked out its 2700 man labor force. News reports this morning state that the union was willing to continue working last night and until a new...