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Submission + - Are you obsolete? (computerworld.com) 2

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on Monday January 28, 2008 @02:46PM

cweditor writes: "You are if you think only the technology elite should be responsible for deciding what tech tools should help improve productivity, this article argues. One Gartner analyst foresees "a significant shift in power that IT ignores at its own peril." With free Internet applications, Web platforms and social software, "the consumer side of the world is driving most technology advancement, not enterprise IT." How, then, do more experienced developers and IT managers working in corporate environments stay current?"

Submission + - Sysadmin gets 30 months for planting logic bomb (computerworld.com) 1

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on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @06:30PM

cweditor writes: "A former Medco Health systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $81,200 in restitution for planting a logic bomb on a network that held customer health care information, Computerworld reports. The code was designed to delete almost all information on about 70 company servers. This may be longest federal prison sentence for trying to damage a corporate computer system, although Yung-Hsun Lin faced a maximum of 10 years."

Submission + - U.S. tech workers' group ends H-1B fight (computerworld.com)

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on Monday December 24, 2007 @06:51PM

cweditor writes: "Five years ago, some unemployed IT workers in Connecticut formed an advocacy group to fight against the H-1B and L-1 visa programs. The Organization for the Rights of American Workers (TORAW) succeeded in getting visa-overhaul legislation introduced in Congress; they also held protests (including one at an outsourcing conference where one member held a "will code for food" sign). But now TORAW is disbanding, president John Bauman told Computerworld.

"People lost interest in the fight," Bauman said. Many members just gave up and moved on, taking jobs in other industries. For instance, one of the organizers is driving an 18-wheeler, while another is doing home repair work."

Submission + - The 5 Users You'd Meet in Hell (computerworld.com)

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on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @11:09AM

cweditor writes: "The Know-It-All. The Finger-Pointer. The Whiz Kid. "Just as a zookeeper cares for his monkeys one way and his rhinos another (we kid — sort of), so too should IT tailor its responses to fit the individual styles of its end users," according to this Computerworld "rogue's gallery of users (and one angel)".

Includes advice on how to best deal with the most common types of users, without having to run screaming into the night. Expect sometime soon to also see reader feedback offering other ideas (and, oh, perhaps some disagreement with the article's)."

Submission + - Extreme energy makeover: Home technology edition (computerworld.com)

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on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @07:25PM

cweditor writes: "Step by step, tech writer Rob Mitchell shows how he measured energy use of all his home office equipment, and then targeted the energy pigs for replacement. With better equipment choices, he'd save $90/year. If you've got more than a couple of computers and printers at home (and if you're a Slashdot reader, you probably do), the savings would be a lot higher. Includes detailed formulas as well as a spreadsheet on monitor energy usage."

Submission + - Web tool: Are you paid what you're worth? (computerworld.com)

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on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @11:59AM

cweditor writes: "Query a database to check tech salaries by job, industry and region. Web developer in the financial industry? $84K. National average for Web developers across all industries? $66K. National average for software developers? $79K. Average in the Pacific region? $93K.

Data is from the Computerworld annual salary survey of nearly 10,000 IT professionals, published this week."

Submission + - Florida voter database hit by worm during voting

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on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @10:46AM

cweditor writes: "Yes, it's yet another Florida voting technology mishap. This time, we learn that Sarasota County's database infrastructure was attacked by a variant of the Slammer worm on the first day of early voting in Florida's 13th Congressional district, Computerworld reports. "Questions remain about whether the incident was disclosed to the parties challenging the election," the story notes. The results of that race were subsequently contested for other reasons. Bradblog has posted the incident report."

Submission + - JavaScript-free Ajax

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on Friday March 16, 2007 @10:54AM

cweditor writes: "It sounds like a collision of Web development buzzwords, but there are some good reasons to combine Ajax and Rails. "Doing vanilla Ajax without the support of any extra libraries or helpers isn't the trick it's often portrayed to be," notes developer Scott Raymond in the new O'Reilly book Ajax on Rails. "The idea of writing more than a dozen lines of code to do the simplest possible task is off-putting." In this excerpt from the book posted on Computerworld, Raymond walks through an Ajax on Rails example, ending up with some simple code that creates Ajax without requiring the j part."

Submission + - An intro to Rails

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on Thursday August 31, 2006 @08:08PM

cweditor writes: "Why Rails? In this excerpt from O'Reilly's Ruby on Rails: Up and Running, authors Bruce A. Tate and Curt Hibbs outline several features they say boost developer productivity, including: metapgrogramming, Active Record framework (designed to discover columns in a database schema and automatically attach them to domain objects), auto-generated scaffolding code and three default environments (development, testing and production)."

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