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When I visited Chicago a couple of weeks ago, I met the founder of a small analytics startup. Showing my San Francisco bias, I asked him if it was difficult to find the talent he needed in the Chicago area.

Open source has gone from a curiosity in the enterprise to a welcome and valuable addition.

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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 is changing simple homes into smart homes, where everything from your lights to your locks can be controlled from your smartphone. Here are a few products that can help you get started Dek:  The Internet of things is changing simple homes into smart homes, where everything from your lights to your locks can be controlled from your smartphone. Here are a few products that can help you get started External Source:  computerworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/150407

The Internet of things is changing simple homes into smart homes, where everything from your lights to your locks can be controlled from your smartphone. Here are a few products that can help you get started Dek:  The Internet of things is changing simple homes into smart homes, where everything from your lights to your locks can be controlled from your smartphone. Here are a few products that can help you get started External Source:  computerworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.computerworld.com/slideshow/150407

From smartphones that know you’re near to tattoos and even pills, high-tech companies are busy replacing pesky strings of text with easier ways to authenticate. Check out the future here Dek:  From smartphones that know you’re near to tattoos and even pills, high-tech companies are busy replacing pesky strings of text with easier ways to authenticate. Check out the future here External Source:  pcworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/158302

Preprocessors, frameworks, boilerplate -- these technologies bring style, consistency, and responsiveness to Web development Dek:  Preprocessors, frameworks, boilerplate -- these technologies bring style, consistency, and responsiveness to Web development External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/157915

Preprocessors, frameworks, boilerplate -- these technologies bring style, consistency, and responsiveness to Web development Dek:  Preprocessors, frameworks, boilerplate -- these technologies bring style, consistency, and responsiveness to Web development External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/157915

To the barricades, shouts Chet Kanojia, CEO of the Aereo streaming service that the Supreme Court declared il

I'm an unabashed fan of MongoDB, the only NoSQL database just about everyone has heard of.

A sure sign a new software technology has arrived is when it shows up in job listings as a required skill.

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.

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.

The latest cyber security information sharing bill being considered in the Senate strikes many as overly broad and in need of revision.

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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.

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.

It's easy to hate PHP despite the culture of software built on top of it.

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.