In July we started our membership drive which will end at our November meeting on Tuesday, November 25th. For each meeting of CINNUG or CinARC you attend you get a chance to win one of our prizes (but you must be present in November to win). For each friend you bring that has never been to a CINNUG or...

August 2008 Meeting Recap This month Leon Gersing talked about Script.aculo.us and Prototype. Jim Holmes also spoke about Code Complexity. The materials for Jim's presentation can be found here . We hope to post Leon's presentation at the CINNUG download site soon and a blog entry will be created...

Phil Japikse, who is a regular at the CINNUG and CinARC meetings, will be presenting his Test Driven Development in .NET talk for the Cincinnati Programmer's Guild (CincyPG) on Wednesday, July 20th (that's this Wednesday!). If you aren't familiar with the CincyPG they are non-platform specific...

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For those interested in riding the bus to DevLink there is now an official DevLink Bus page ! Go fill in the contact form so that you can get your name on the list. More information is forthcoming as the organizers are soliciting sponsors to help offset the cost. If you know of a company that is interested...

a:link { color: #000000; } The June meeting went off really well. This month we had Tim Wingfield come talk to us about ASP.NET MVC. It was great to have Tim drive down from Columbus to share with us. After the pizza Leon Gersing gave a quick pattern talk on the Single Responsibility Principle. Attendance...

ReviewNet has posted a SQL skills test that you can use to review your SQL abilities. Here is the announcement they sent the group: "ReviewNet would like to extend an opportunity to your user group members to take our new SQL Server skills tests to evaluate their skill level. Individuals that complete...

A few new things have cropped up since our May Recap newsletter that I wanted to share prior to the June meeting. June Special Event: XNA & Robotic Studio with Bill Steele! (Thursday, June 19th) If you like to tinker with electronics or are interested in learning how you can code games for your PC...

Call it the resurrection of Hackers' Night! CiNPA (Cincinnati Networking Professionals Association) is bringing it back to life in a new iteration - the CiNPA Technical Fair.Would you pass this on to the appropriate folks on your staff and/or colleagues who would be interested in this a day of information...

If you work for a charity or non-profit organization then you may want to check out http://www.thinkbarefoot.com/grants . The Barefoot marketing company and Clear Channel Communications are working together to offer grants for a local charity or non-profit media campaign! Applications are due by May...