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Five steps to making a good hire
Insight Interviewing is such a complicated process that it is easy to miss important points. Here are pointers on how you can ensure that your next hiring decision is not a mistake.
Tags: IT Management, Workplace
Tips for managing IT facilities
Insight Emergency preparedness for natural or man-made disasters should be a basic part of general safety training for all personnel working inside a data center.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management
Enterprise IT's trust level of Google will increase
News Enterprises are more than just interested in Google--they are ready to move on, especially as e-mail moves to cloud.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, IBM Corp., Google Inc., Information Technology, Business applications, Business Strategies & Functions, Gartner Inc., CIO, e-mail
Agile project management: Estimating the unknown
Techguide Rick Freedman explains why estimation in an agile environment is not as mysterious as many project managers think.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, NEC Corp., Feature, Project, Project Management Institute, Rick, Environment, Carnegie-Mellon University, technique
Keep project scope small for success
Techguide Negativity can kill a project, but the opposite is also true: You can stuff a project with so many features that it's crushed by its own weight.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Protocols and platforms, Project, Database, Chip, operating system, Chances, Ruby on Rails, Hardware
Guide to open source mailing list etiquette
Techguide Here’s some advice on how to be the best Linux list member you can be and getting the help you need from the open source community.
Tags: Linux, Open source, List, open source mailing list, Video, Ubuntu, e-mail, mailing list, bond, Microsoft Windows
Manually adjust query-based distribution list membership using LDAP
Techguide Query-based distribution groups provide a great means by which to automate the membership of groups in Active Directory. Here's one way that you can manually adjust query-based membership.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Network administration/implementation, Server platforms, Distribution Group, Query, GUI, Distribution List, Chief Information Officer, home networking, Scott Lowe
Code concepts: .NET's lambdas
Techguide In this instalment of Code concepts, Justin James provides an overview of what lambdas in .NET are and explains how to use them.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Variable, C#, Justin James, network management, Microsoft .NET, blogging, TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Visual Basic
OpenAmplify developer's diary Part 1: Making the request
Techguide Justin James chronicles his process of using Hapax's OpenAmplify Web service to create an application which can match documents that have similar content or is identical to the source document.
Tags: Web services, Protocols and platforms, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, OpenAmplify Developer, WSDL, Web Browser, Dividend, client system, Developer
An inside look at the Apache Software Foundation
Techguide Justin James recently spoke with the Apache Software Foundation’s President and Executive Vice President about what the ASF does and how they do it.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Web servers, Apache Software Foundation, GPL, Web Server, Apache Web server, Justin James, decision-making, blogging
Code concepts: C#'s var keyword
Techguide Justin James explains in this overview, that var is used in variable declarations instead of a type, and also weighs differing opinions about what makes var useful.
Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, C#, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, Programming, blogging, Microsoft Visual Studio, PHP
10 tips to go from a beginner to intermediate developer
Techguide Having trouble finding tips for to take your developer career to the next level? Here are some suggestions on how to make that leap.
Tags: Personal development, Protocols and platforms, Language, Database, Search Engine, Developer, object-oriented, career, job, Perl
Classic Windows NT tip: Dump Registry to text files for tracking
Techguide Figuring out what changes occur to the Windows registry is difficult. This tip shows how you can do so in Windows NT by exporting to text files. It worked in 1999, and still works today.
Tags: Microsoft Server 2003, Registry, Resource Kit, Registry Editor, Computer, Windows registry, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, dialog box
CBS to buy CNET Networks
News Media conglomerate plans to purchase CNET Networks, publisher of News.com, in a deal valued at US$1.8 billion.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, CBS Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, search engine company, partnership, CNET Networks Inc., Internet, U.S.
