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.

CodeMash is held at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio’s Largest Indoor Waterpark. The Kalahari offers a full spa, fitness centers, indoor mini-golf, and a great number of other activities. Entrance to the water park is free when you stay at the Kalahri's hotel.

Start the year off right!

Join The Women's Circuit and the Cincinnati Programmers Guild on Thursday, January 10th for a Cybercrime & Computer Briefing.

Panel to include:   

• Keith Kabrehl, FBI Detective
• Debbie Wheeler, CISO & Vice President Fifth Third Bank
• Brian Lawhorn, Security Director Kroger
• Shannon Kulp, Cintas Security Director

Panel discussion to include current business security risks, trends and insights on how to recognize and prevent them.

Kipp Martin is Vice President and CIO of Global Optima. He is Professor of Operations Research and Computing Technology at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Kipp has been teaching Internet business to MBA students since 1994 and has taught executives in Europe and the U.S. He has written Large Scale Linear and Integer Optimization: A Unified Approach (Kluwer, 1999). He holds a BA, MBA, and Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati.

2.21.08             The Women's Circuit Monthly meetingPower Networking and Treasure Hunt It's cold outside so we're going to heat things up.

same time, same place!!

Open Topic 

Join The Women's Circuit and The Programmer's Guild as we host our annual Spring Networking event at Palomino's downtown. Use this opportunity to refresh your existing IT relationships and build some exciting new ones.

What is software architecture?  What is the role of the architect?  Is architecture relevant to agile development?  What does this have to do with developers?  This presentation will answer these questions and more.  It will help you bring an architectural mindset to your development by identifying architectural techniques you can use in your daily development. If you're interested in architecture, being an architect, or just want to think about software development in a new way, join us for this exploration of architecture and the architect.

Liberate Domains is a free, open source desktop application intended to fight the global crisis of cybersquatting. Available for Mac & PC, it performs whois lookups, reverse lookups and availability checks at the source registries, preventing interlopers from pilfering your valuable ideas. Liberate Domains was released on June 23rd, 2008; the 25th anniversary of the Domain Name System (DNS).

Test Driven/Test First Development is more than writing your unit tests first. It requires a very different thought process. We’ll dive into that process with a completely code driven session.

The Cincinnati Programmers Guild will feature Platform Lab Director Steve Gruetter as their speaker for their October meeting. Gruetter will be discussing 'Leveraging Ohio's Resources', an interactive informative presentation focusing on how to take advantage of taxpayer supported IT resources that most IT professionals are not aware of.

The University of Cincinnati would like to invite you to attend a once in a lifetime event celebrating UC’s innovation, achievement, and leadership in computing on November 10 & 11, 2008.

Security is a big issue and all too often it is only thought of as it applies to the network administrator. However, programmers face a host of threats to their applications. The solution is to build a threat model. The purpose of a threat model is to aid in identifying potential threats before a system is built, not after. This talk will cover some of the common threats to applications and how to prevent them. This talk is based upon Microsoft's Threat Analysis and Modeling (TAM) tool which is free.