Articles for Career Growth

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  SoftBank Will Make Life Interesting for Sprint's Employees

  Masayoshi Son is back in town. As the second richest man in Japan, 55-year-old Son-San, as he is often called, is an interesting character with a unique business style that I’ve seen up close. No…
• RagingWire Patents 100 Percent Uptime Tech

  [caption id="attachment_5360" align="aligncenter" width="618"] RagingWire plans on building a 750,000-square-foot data center in Ashburn, Virginia.[/caption] Data center provider RagingWire said…
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  Think Carefully Before Upgrading to Python 3

  Upgrading software in a timely matter is important (as I wrote here), but I don't always follow my own advice. I have a client who uses Python, which is currently on version 3.3. The client is us…
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  New Glasses Protect Pilots from Laser Strikes

  Britain's Ministry of Defense is developing a novel type of eyewear that's capable of reflecting certain wavelengths of laser light. For pilots and passengers, the dazzling effect of a bright las…
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  5 Things A Recruiter Wants You to Know About the Tech Interview Process

  Of all the things that can be said about getting a job in tech, there’s a universal truth that resonates with every candidate: the process seems to take forever. But why? Many technologists voice…

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• Companies Want Platform-as-a-Service: IBM

  Earlier this week, IBM released a study showing that 49 percent of IT decision makers see Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) as strategically important. Roughly 20 percent of the 1,500 respondents actu…
• Dell Touts Active Infrastructure All-in-One Solution

  In a bid to stay competitive in the data center, Dell has announced a new standards-based, converged infrastructure offering it calls Active Infrastructure. The first pre-integrated offering in t…
• Is Juniper Up for Sale? Probably Not

  The blogosphere buzzed Oct. 18 with news that EMC might snatch up Juniper Networks. Benzinga.com reported that Juniper had hired J.P. Morgan as advisors to negotiate alternatives, including a sal…
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  Developing for Amazon's Kindle Fire

  Developing for the Kindle Fire is fundamentally the same as developing Android proper. The Kindle Fire HDs run on ICS, and the original model runs on Gingerbread. I was hoping the Kindle Fire HD…
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  How to Use Match-Three Mechanics for Great Games

  Web games and smartphone apps have been using the match-three mechanic for a few years, but recent games have carried it beyond the obvious Bejeweled-style titles. The mechanism — where a player…
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  Google Said to Be Readying iOS 6 Native Maps

  A set of mysterious screen shots that surfaced on Sunday are reported to belong to an alpha version of a native Google Maps app running on an iPhone 5. If the whole Apple Maps fiasco is getting y…
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  Turn the AI Revolution Into Your Career Evolution

  AI continues to shape the technology landscape and our day-to-day lives. Many continue to use interactive bots like ChatGPT or Google Gemini as virtual assistants to answer questions and handle s…

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