Salary Survey Extra: Punching the keys (on your PC or laptop)
Believe it or not, the first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. Cell phones had been getting fancier and smarter for a few years before that. BlackBerry has been around since 1999, and the first PalmPilot was …
Read ArticleJob Profile: Become a network designer
Computer networks are essential for most organizations today. Tech infrastructure enables employees of corporations and administrations to connect and share applications and information with …
Read ArticleSouth Carolina student built himself a server, then a career in IT
At 15, Tanner Ogden built and hosted his first gaming server. He and friends enjoyed playing the immensely popular video game “Minecraft” and, as boys often do, they mastered it to the point of …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep focus on RHCSA
Red Hat is one of the leading open source technology companies in the entire IT industry, and Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) is the cornerstone of its popular certification program. While a …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Weighing in on the World Cup
The opening kick of the Women’s World Cup will happen tomorrow, so this seems like a good time to report on one of those random questions that we asked last year in the Not So Serious section of the …
Read ArticleTeaching project management across disciplines
Having spent 18 years in a full-time faculty role, I’ve learned the inner workings of colleges and the simple fact that academic departments, for a variety of reasons, are separately siloed. Unfortunately, this …
Read ArticleTech workers have a lot of stress — don’t get ground down by burnout
Employee burnout is an increasingly common problem across all industries, but it’s particularly problematic in the information technology (IT) industry. Working in a constantly evolving, fast-paced, and highly …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CCSK
Cloud computing, somewhat literally, is where IT is at in 2019. Everything from day-to-day business operations to massive amounts of data storage happens in “the cloud.” A lot of this has come to pass …
Read ArticleSalary Survey Extra: Few IT professionals living the work from home dream
Believe it or not, IT industry observers first started talking more than 25 years ago about how computers and the internet would surely give us all greater freedom to work from home. So either the gears …
Read ArticlePull-dated personnel: The problem of ageism is alive and well in the IT industry
An industry acquaintance of mine recently shared a story of the last office IT job he held. His manager at the company was a young adult nearly half his age, and none of the other team members in the …
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