Articles by Dice Staff

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  Developer Interest in Android Declines; Keep Building Anyway

  Interest in Android development has dropped over the last four years, it seems. In August, 66 percent of developers were very interested in working with Android tablets and 76 percent felt the sa…
• Google Opens Dublin Data Center

  [caption id="attachment_4906" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Dublin.[/caption] Last Friday, Google officially opened its new data center in Ireland, a €75 million facility ($97 million) in Dubl…
• Sentinel to Build 420K Multitenant Whopper in Durham, N.C.

  [caption id="attachment_4901" align="aligncenter" width="618"] The Sentinel NC-1 facility will ultimately yield approximately 200,000 square feet of net computer room space.[/caption] Sentinel Da…
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  5 Steps to Cracking the Coding Interview

  Software engineers typically face a double whammy when it comes to a job interview. They not only have to ace their meeting with the hiring manager and team members, but also need to score well o…
• Can Strong Encryption Work in the Cloud?

  Earlier this year, NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) released a new publication, entitled Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations, which describes in detail the curre…
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  Peek Inside VMware’s Hands-On Labs

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3UU4yGMiOk&wmode=window&h=315] One of the most sought-after experiences at VMworld 2012 was to spend time in the user labs and get some hands on experienc…
• Oracle Open World: Fujitsu Preps "Athena" Hardware for Big Data

  [caption id="attachment_4863" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Noriyuki Toyoki, corporate senior vice president at Fujitsu, details Project Athena at Oracle Open World.[/caption] In an announceme…
• Oracle Open World: Ellison Preaches Cloud Religion

  [caption id="attachment_4857" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Oracle CEO Larry Ellison used his OOW keynote to make four major announcements.[/caption] Oracle CEO Larry Ellison used his opening…
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  GM's Hiring, But Not 10,000 New People

  Media reports that General Motors will add 10,000 more people as part of its efforts to insource the bulk of its IT operations turns out to be wrong. The company told Dice News that the widely re…
• History of Slashdot

  Site Development Slashdot started in 1997 as Chips and Dips by Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda. He posted links to news articles that interested him, mostly on open-source software and tech news. Between wo…