Articles by Dice Staff

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  Bluefish is a Great Tool for Writing Clean HTML

  If you write articles, create Web pages or write Kindle ebooks, chances are that you'll need a fast, no-frills HTML editor. I've been doing all these jobs for a number of years and I think the Bl…
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  Take Advantage of the Mainframe Talent Shortage

  Mainframe developers, especially those with COBOL skills, may not get as much attention as, say, app developers -- except from a number of employers. While the development community has been dazz…
• Who Wants to Own Their Own Servers Forever?

  Owning or leasing your own onsite compute infrastructure is a given for most businesses—or at least those businesses capable of affording it. Most of us assume that will be true forever, but it w…
• Want to Transform Your iPads Into Telepresence Robots? Kinda Creepy, Kinda Cool

  I watched Star Wars and I, Robot years ago, but I never thought that a walking robot would be viable, at least not right now. Once again, I'm wrong. I’m happy to say robots are walking among us,…
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  Apple Wins in Samsung Patent Case; $1 Billion+ Damages Award

  Apple scored a major victory in its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, receiving a favorable jury verdict that calls for $1.05 billion in damages. The jury verdict, accordin…
• Adapteva's Co-Processor May Challenge GPUs in Servers

  Adapteva this week released the company’s Epiphany-IV chip, a coprocessor that can sit alongside the main processor in a data center and dramatically accelerate its computational performance at a…
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  How Google Play's Taming Aggressive Apps and Ads

  Aggressive, non-relevant ads, along with a host of other questionable content, will soon be a thing of the past in Google Play. In an effort to tighten the reigns and eliminate rogue apps, Google…
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  Electronic Arts Recruiter Critiques a Coder's Resume

  Roberta Fricker, a recent computer science graduate, wants to improve her resume -- and who doesn't. This week, we've arranged resume critiques with three people: an IT recruiter, an IT hiring ma…
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  Microsoft's New Logo - Not the Next Big Thing

  Microsoft unveiled its new corporate logo, and after taking a quick glance I can say it looks like a clean, boxy version of its old logo with its colored Windows flag slapped on. Is this as good…
• Do You Need a Chief Data Officer?

  The city of Philadelphia recently hired Mark Headd as their Chief Data Officer, and he’s not the first to hold such a title—it’s begun to crop up with greater frequency in companies large and sma…