Articles by Dice Staff

• Someone's Got to Install All Those Wireless Systems in New York's Subways

  Despite enormous cutbacks and fare hikes in the New York Subway System, MTA is moving ahead with plans to make every subway platform wireless, creating scores of jobs in the process. In a $200 mi…
• DiceTV: What Does It Take to be a Microsoft Evangelist?

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQDYLVHS5Mk?rel=0&w=570&h=346] Microsoft evangelist, it seems like one of the coolest jobs, and more than 1,100 people around the globe have that title. At…
• DiceTV: Gnomedex's Chris Pirillo on Our Individual Power to Create

  Gnomedex 10 launched today in Seattle. For those not familiar with the conference, attendees refer to it as "TED light," because it's about 1/10th the cost, yet still has great inspiring speakers…
• DiceTV: Robert Scoble's Tips for Getting Started in Social Media

  At Gnomedex 10 in Seattle, we met up with Robert Scoble, former tech evangelist with Microsoft and now evangelist with Rackspace. After years of blogging and engaging in social media, Scoble has…
• Get Noticed: SEO Your Resume in Three Easy Steps

  Search engine optimization isn't just for websites anymore. Web designers and content writers know the value of optimization. They incorporate keywords and commonly-used string searches so their…
• How Do You Turn Down Being Someone's Reference?

  by Dino Londis Joanna, a coder, was flat out glad to see Rena fired. Rena's probationary period was ending and management had decided with a nudge or two from Joanna to cut its losses and find so…
• Standard Job Titles Trump Unique Job Titles on Resumes

  by Scot Herrick Job titles are important to people. They are often used to provide unique recognition to people on the job - usually to provide the title and not the pay. After all, who wouldn't…
• IT Professionals Needed to Mind Biotech's Data and the Systems It Lives on

  By Chandler Harris Science and technology often go hand in hand, but nowhere is that more evident than in biotechnology. More than ever, the field's research and innovation is being driven by tec…
• Google Wave Is Gone, But Workgroup Challenges Remain

  by Don Willmott The best thing to happen to IT last week was the sudden and unexpected death of Google Wave. It's not that I derive any particular joy from seeing a potentially groundbreaking par…
• In San Diego, IT Begins Its Climb Back From a Deep Dip

  California still has close to 1 million high-tech employees, and that number has held steady through the worst of the recession, but prospects for all those workers have been limited over the pas…