Articles by Dice Staff

• My Lesson on Workplace Discrimination

  Last week, a user complained when I illustrated a workplace gossip story with the image of a woman posing like a cat. (You can see the post here.) I think the fact that this story associates "off…
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  How to Work with Scribus's Graphical Document Layout

  Scribus is a great Open Source application -- available for Windows, Mac and Linux -- that's used to lay out pages for brochures, calendars, books and professional-quality PDF documents. It’s a p…
• Partners Spin Impact of Microsoft's Surface

  Microsoft kicked off this summer by announcing its first tablet, Surface. At first no one thought it could rival the iPad, but within days people began changing their opinion and saw that it coul…
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  IT Recruiter Critiques Grad's Programmer Resume

  Roberta Fricker considers herself a "new nerd." After working as an analyst in insurance giant Aetna's Seattle office, she decided she wanted to learn more coding. So, she quit. After dabbling wi…
• Massive Apple Data Center Confirmed for Prineville

  [caption id="attachment_3671" align="aligncenter" width="615"] Prineville, Oregon has evolved into a prominent data-center site, drawing in tech companies including Facebook and Apple.[/caption]…
• Skyera Aims for Price Parity with New SSD

  [caption id="attachment_3664" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Skyera is betting big on cheaper enterprise SSD technology.[/caption] Startup Skyera has entered the solid-state storage market for…
• Samsung to Expand R&D Hiring in San Jose

  Samsung Semiconductor has announced plans to expand in Silicon Valley, a move that "will considerably increase the company's current employment and significantly increase the size of the existing…
• Scientists Fake Touch; Fantasies Intensify in Second Life

  A team of researchers at the University of Illinois is developing devices that allow users to experience the sensation of touch, without actually touching anything. The team calls their devices “…
• 7 Stories on Programming Today

  Despite the pressures of outsourcing and offshoring, programmers are always going to be needed here at home. At least, that's my belief. For one thing, there are too many instances where the need…
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  HP Spins Off WebOS Into 'Gram'

  Hewlett-Packard is spinning off its webOS global business unit into a subsidiary called Gram. In a vague statement, HP described Gram as " a new company leveraging the core strengths of webOS, En…