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8 tips for getting your IT career back on track
Most of us are trying get ahead in this world, but occasionally we find ourselves in the unenviable career rut. Maybe you realize your current position doesn't align with your long-term goals. Perhaps you received a poor performance review, or were passed over for promotion, and feel like your career has gone off the road.
Now what? You've got to get your career back on track -- and fast.
The Internet of things at home: 14 smart products that could change your life
The Internet of things at home: 14 smart products that could change your life
8 ways to declare your independence from passwords
6 CSS tools for coding in style
6 CSS tools for coding in style
Adios Aereo, and take your illegal technology with you
To the barricades, shouts Chet Kanojia, CEO of the Aereo streaming service that the Supreme Court declared il
MongoDB grows up -- and shows off its enterprise cred
I'm an unabashed fan of MongoDB, the only NoSQL database just about everyone has heard of.
For Node.js talent, it's a seller's market
A sure sign a new software technology has arrived is when it shows up in job listings as a required skill.
Watch out for these 5 summer scams
It is almost summertime, and while the livin' supposedly gets a bit easier, it remains risky. As the vacation season approaches and everybody is planning travel, socializing with friends and family and relaxing, people in the "always connected" world should add one more item to their list: Don't relax when it comes to online security.
How to recover after a cloud computing misstep
DreamWorks Animation knows the magic of the cloud. Since 2003, the famed studio has held its product development, design and manufacturing functions in a hybrid cloud environment, long before the storage option was even called "cloud."
The cloud gives the Los Angeles-based company "massive flexibility in both human and digital capital," says DreamWorks CTO Lincoln Wallen, adding that it gives "any artist access to any movie from any site, anywhere, on any project... instantly." It also allowed DreamWorks to move from producing one movie every 18 months to three movies a year.
Latest cyber security bill riddled with Net neutrality loopholes
The latest cyber security information sharing bill being considered in the Senate strikes many as overly broad and in need of revision.
Windows 9: The empire's last hope
Reviving a franchise is a big deal. They've done it with "Star Trek" and "Spider-Man." They're hoping to do it with "Star Wars." But can Microsoft do it with Windows? As Yoda might say, cloudy the future is.
Windows 9: The empire's last hope
Reviving a franchise is a big deal. They've done it with "Star Trek" and "Spider-Man." They're hoping to do it with "Star Wars." But can Microsoft do it with Windows? As Yoda might say, cloudy the future is.
4 ways PHP coding is getting less painful
It's easy to hate PHP despite the culture of software built on top of it.
How-to: Get started with Docker
Docker is an open source framework that provides a lighter-weight type of virtualization, using Linux containers rather than virtual machines. Built on traditional Linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu, Docker lets you package applications and services as images that run in their own portable containers and can move between physical, virtual, and cloud foundations without requiring any modification. If you build a Docker image on an Ubuntu laptop or physical server, you can run it on any compatible Linux, anywhere.
Know your options for infrastructure monitoring
Network monitoring is the nervous system of any infrastructure. Keeping tabs on your services -- whether they're local or in the cloud -- is vitally important to maintaining a stable and functional service infrastructure.
In this week's New Tech Forum, Ernest Mueller, product manager at infrastructure-monitoring provider CopperEgg, walks us through the growing field of network and service monitoring, and what we can now leverage to keep tabs on our ever more complex infrastructures. -- Paul Venezia