| The Use And Understanding Of "?" Operator Java includes a special Three-way(Ternary) operator that can replace certain types of if-then-else statements. Date: 2009-12-29 What Have We Learned From A Year Of Cloud Computing? This month marks the first anniversary of when my startup, M-Dot Network, started building our enterprise solution on Amazon's cloud computing platform. Date: 2009-12-11 Continued Education And IT Certifications I have worked in the IT field for almost 10 years. One of the most controversial topics among most of the people I have worked with is whether or not certifications should expire. Date: 2009-11-13 IT Giants Looking To More Social Centric Professionals Here are several excerpts from an article about what a panel of leading tech vendors had to say about the future of social networking tools at... Date: 2009-11-06 Increasing Your Knowledge Of Java Standards Java programming language is very vast programming language,even I must say each and every programming language is very vast. Date: 2009-10-16 Identifying Differences In Open Source And Open Standards Reading Michael Tiemann's notes for his Open World Forum speech I can't help but think that he's attributing a point of value to open source that is much more aligned to open standards based software. Date: 2009-10-02 Java Programmer - Common Scoping Errors Scoping errors comes in various sizes and shapes. Novice Java programmers most often commit some silly mistakes which are undesirable. Date: 2009-09-18 Practice Make Perfect In Preparing For Your SCJP Exam The SCJP 310-065 exam is not easy to crack. I have an experience of using the UCertify's SCJP 310-065 exam preparation kit for quite a long time,and it is needed the best exam preparation kit available. Date: 2009-09-04 The Truth Of Being Sun Certified Being a Sun Certified Java Programmer(SCJP) is undoubtedly a matter a pride, But due to the immense increase in qualified Human Resource especially in IT/ITES sector, it is no longer a matter of pride. Date: 2009-08-21 Preparing For Your Windows Server Certification Test Note: These instructions are for Microsoft Windows Servers. Linux or Apache 301 Redirect Instructions can be found here. Date: 2009-07-31 Addressing The Real World Educational Needs Of Information Security What has been interesting is the amount of interest in the information security program that we have written lately, and this includes how we are using... Date: 2009-07-17 Implementing An Open Certification Standard Government Policy Rajiv Shah and Jay Kesan wrote the paper "running code as part of an open standards policy" arguing that the "running code" requirement - i.e. multiple independent, interoperable implementations of an open standard - should be part of governments' open standards policies. Date: 2009-06-29 Should Maintaining The Accuracy Of IT Certification Be Ongoing? You are only as safe as your expert opinion . But then the question is, what if the expert opinion is followed, and you are certified and you still get a data breach that costs the company millions of dollars. Date: 2009-06-04 The Understanding And Implementation Of Cloud Computing I have been to my share of conferences and webinars on cloud computing the last two years and I have also read the content of many colleagues who live blog, blog, and/or tweet at cloud conferences as well. Date: 2009-05-22 What Are The Major Benefits From Being Certified? And why you are at it, also get a certificate in something techy along the way. Is college the right path to succeed? With all the layoff's and an economy still stuck in the downturn or at least struggling at a pseudo bottom, the question of college as a way to make it through the hiring process is something that you should be thinking about. Date: 2009-05-06 IT Certification Looks Toward Freeware Or Freedom Earlier this week Forrester released a report titled: "Open Source Software Goes Mainstream". While the title may not be breaking news to readers of Open Sources, the data backing up the report is well worth the read. Date: 2009-04-17 The Current IT State Of Cloud Computing I spent two days at the Cloud Computing Expo in NYC this past week and want to share my thoughts on the state of the cloud. Here are my thoughts in no particular order... • Many of the vendors do not have a clear vision and are rushing to the cloud. Date: 2009-04-03 The Next Big Thing To Learn Is Cloud Computing Whenever you roll out a new technology, there are always changes to how people perceive that technology, and the ramifications to employment that technology has. Cloud computing is disruptive, allowing fewer people to do stuff that an entire IT Shop used to do. Date: 2009-03-20 IDC Revises Global IT Spending Growth In 2009 The continued decline of the global economy has led IDC to revise its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2009. The IDC Black Book now forecasts worldwide IT spending will grow by just 0.5 percent year-over-year in 2009 in constant currency, down form a November 2008 forecast of 2.6 percent growth. Date: 2009-02-27 New Study Points To Better-Paying IT Certifications An old Irish phrase that's meant to be said to friends mentions something about the sun shining on a person's face and the wind being at his back. These days, you'd almost want to change that to his job being secure and bank accounts being full, and new info from Foote Partners indicates which IT certifications are likely to best fit that picture. Date: 2009-2-02 Léo Apotheker On The State Of IT Yesterday, a very interesting and enlightening conversation between Léo Apotheker, SAP co-CEO, and Andy McAfee got aired on TV with the ever resourceful Charlie Rose as the host and getting down to business right away. Date: 2009-01-09
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