Articles by Dice Staff

• Bookkeeping 101 for Contractors

  If you're considering contracting - or any kind of self-employment - you need to understand these essential pieces of tax and financial information. by Mathew Schwartz Get Relevant Tax and Financ…
• Contracting for the Reluctant

  If you're out of work, your best chance of a paycheck may come from contracting work. Here's how to turn your experience into an assignment. By Dona DeZube At the same time economic challenges ha…
• Best Sources for Contractor Rates

  Faced with the challenge of negotiating an hourly pay rate, neophyte contractors, often convert the salary of full time employees to calculate their wage request. While that's certainly one bench…
• The IRS is Looking At Independent Contractors for all the Wrong Reasons

  If you're a contractor, be sure you have a good accountant. When budgets get tight, governments look for new revenue opportunities - and enforcing the rules about independent contractors is begin…
• Amazon Caters to Your Supercomputing Needs

  Amazon has already gained quite a customer base for its cloud-based EC2 computing services, but now it's ready to pull in bigger customers. A new program, called Cluster Computer, can deliver a l…
• From SaaS to DaaS and Beyond

  By now we're all familiar with SaaS, or Software as a Service. It's one of the basic building blocks of an enterprise cloud computing implementation. Are you ready for the next wave? Meet DaaS, D…
• Friday's People News

  Eric Martorano will lead Microsoft's SMB Channel and Online Services [ChannelWeb] Peter Lee to Head Microsoft Research Redmond [Xconomy] MySpace acquiring team and assets of social messaging serv…
• Under Constant Attack, Companies Ponder Better Security

  At Internet Evolution, Gideon J. Lenkey notes that Boeing's computer networks are attacked by outside intruders 3,722 times per hour. Under an onslaught like that, it would seem perfectly reasona…
• Five of Our Favorite Stories on Interviewing

  On the theory that you can never go into an interview too well prepared, we present this modest list of articles on how to be ready and sharp when it's time for you to go eye-to-eye with the hiri…
• Career Doctor: Is it a Good Idea to 'Round Up' Your Employment Dates?

  By Dave Willmer Question: "My resume isn't getting much of a response, probably because I don't have a long track record of work experience. Is there any harm in 'rounding up' my dates of employm…