Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Your Summer Job Search Checklist
Yes, the job market for tech professionals is strong. But that doesn’t mean companies are rolling out the welcome mat to just anyone who’s spent a few hours in school banging away at code. Even t… -
The Cloud's Raining Money
The market for off-premises cloud services grew to $93 billion last year, up 54 percent from 2014, according to new data from analyst firm IHS Technology. While that’s a huge number, IHS predicts… -
Tech Salaries vs. Rising Rents
Technology-industry salaries have risen significantly over the past few years, hitting an average of $96,370 in 2015, according to the annual salary survey from Dice. Experienced tech pros with i… -
Google May Adopt Swift for Android
Google may adopt the Swift programming language for Android, according to The Next Web. That’s pretty crazy, considering Apple developed Swift for building iOS and Mac OS X apps. Or maybe it’s no… -
Building Your Machine Learning Capabilities
In a new article in Fortune, Facebook executives detail how their research into machine learning and artificial intelligence allowed them to build a social network that serves photos, text posts,… -
Facebook May Jump Into the Bot Game
Facebook’s annual F8 conference, slated to run April 12-13 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA, is the social network’s chance to show off its latest developer tools. In addition to the… -
The Need for a Chief Data Officer
A few years back, a Chief Data Officer (CDO) was a (relatively) rare creature within an organization. Although the volume of data held by most organizations has grown exponentially over past deca… -
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0
Google has launched Android Studio 2.0, its official platform for building apps for Android-powered phones, tablets, and watches. New features include Instant Run, which allows developers to see… -
Are Friends the Most Effective Hiring Tool?
How do tech pros find new jobs? This year’s edition of the annual Stack Overflow survey provides some valuable insight—including some data-points that may hearten recruiters. Roughly 63 percent o… -
How Tech Pros Hunt Down New Jobs
This year’s edition of the annual Stack Overflow survey suggests that most developers aren’t actively searching for jobs—and when they jump to a new gig, it’s because a friend referred them. Roug…