Articles by Dice Staff
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Take The Annual Dice Salary Survey
Participate in the Dice.com salary survey. We'll make it worth your while. Our annual survey profiles the landscape of tech compensation. Be part of the data set to determine if you’re making wha… -
Games, Processing Speed Spur Resurgence of C++
Remember all that talk about the imminent death of C++ in the mid-2000s? Morbid headlines like: C++ IS DEAD!!! and Java Sounds the Death Knell for C++? Adding to the angst were statistics that sh… -
Google, Facebook, Apple Pay Most to Software Engineers
Five of the top 20 companies paying the most in base pay to software engineers are brand names located in Silicon Valley: Google, Facebook, Apple, eBay and Zynga, in that order. Their pay levels… -
Android Jelly Bean Only Tweaks the Transformer Prime
Although the Jelly Bean OTA upgrade for my Asus Transformer Prime (TF201) installed without problems, I thought I'd pass along a few observations I made while using new version. A lot of the buzz… -
Training Colleagues to Use the Database Correctly
by Vanessa James If you’re like most IT professionals, you spend a lot of time fixing, improving and monitoring the company database. But are we really doing everything we can to make sure the da… -
Red Flags to Look For Before Taking a Job
Recently I wrote about the what I look for when I'm considering a job or a contract, things like interesting problems and fun people. There is, however, a dark side. For some things I'll stop eve… -
PayPal's Not Talking About Layoff Rumors
A PayPal spokesman told Dice News that despite rumors of impending layoffs, there have been no discussions within the company about how plans for revamping product development processes could aff… -
Online Dating, Electric Sheep, and Sleeping Dogs
Elisabeth Kasson's interview with OkCupid CEO Sam Yagan fascinates me, and not only because I have a thing for algorithms. I met my wife through JDate, and pretty much every searching single I kn… -
Irony: McAfee, Trust Guard Certifications Invite Trouble
These days it's tough to find an online merchant that doesn't display either a McAfee Secure or Trust Guard logo somewhere. The marks indicate that the websites undergo vigorous daily security sc…