Articles by Dice Staff
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How to Move from Contractor to Consultant
Programmers, systems architects, project managers or other IT specialists working as a contractor may actually have the capabilities of a consultant lurking in you. All it calls for is drawing ou… -
Samsung Electronics Names New CEO
Samsung Electronics named a new CEO, potentially adding a new dynamic to its frenemy relationship with Apple. The Korean electronics giant appointed Kwon-Oh-hyun, head of Samsung's components ope… -
How Logitech's Wireless Keyboard Will Win You Over
Logitech's Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 for the Mac, iPad and iPhone is the most interesting keyboard this author has seen for a long, long time. Let me count the things that make this keyboard p… -
Hadoop Emerges as Application Development Platform
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How Young Developers Can Get Respect
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOUMZRjEpiA&w=560&h=349] If you’re a young developer -- in your teens or early 20s-- you may feel like other professionals aren’t taking you seriously. Tha… -
Comparing Agile and Waterfall
Ah, the ever so fun debate between agile methodologies and waterfall for IT development. Take a deep breath. Not only is this a big debate, but it's often very heated. Waterfall was the way to go… -
Social Media Monitoring by Employers Will Increase
Big Brother employers are about to get even bigger. Gartner says that by 2015, 60 percent of all companies will monitor employee social media use. That's substantially up from the less than 10 pe… -
Play Hard, Win a Gaming Scholarship
Here's your chance to thumb your nose at all those people who've told you that playing video games - for hours - won't get you anywhere. It turns out, it may help you pay for college. Online gami… -
HP's Vertica Team is Losing Key Executives
Hewlett-Packard's bleeding talent from Vertica, originally cast as one of the pillars of HP's Information Management business unit. Vertica's ability to analyze structured data was considered a p… -
Second Life, the Holodeck, and You
Do you remember Second Life? It was kind of like chat on steroids -- you logged in, designed yourself an avatar, then wandered from place to place, meeting other avatars so you could interact wit…