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The Top 10 List of Software Development Blunders

21 February 2007

Are you making these software development blunders? Here’s the top 10 list compiled by Borland.
1. building Infrequently
The solution to painful dentist visits isn’t going less often, it’s going more often! The same is true of painful software integration events. Building frequently - preferably continuously - allows you to discover problems early on […]

CASE Tools and System Development Life-Cycle

30 December 2006

CASE Tools
Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools are used by system analysts, designers, and developers to capture information about business requirements, create a design for the data structures to fulfill those requirements, and generate front-end and server program code. CASE tools can automate much of the manual, repetitive, and error-prone work needed for system development, […]

The Most Wanted Programming Skills for Today’s IT Business Solutions

18 November 2006

Programming is the essential skill for every IT professional. Programming skills are categorized by the computer languages. Therefore, the value of programming skills depends on the use and popularity of programming languages.
The most wanted programming skills come with the languages that are widely used in today’s business solution developments. These language-based skills are […]

What Skills Do You Need to Jumpstart Web Services Projects

20 October 2006

The exciting Web services technology promises to allow disparate computer systems and applications to communicate and interoperate. That’s a big deal in IT industry. Although this technology is still a work in progress, you should start to prepare yourself for this technology. When this technology matures, you should be ready to handle web services projects […]

Siebel CRM Skills

27 September 2006

In IT, CRM (customer relationship management) skills and Siebel skills are almost interchangeable. Siebel as the #1 CRM commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) package is now under the flag of Oracle. If you’ve mastered Siebel, you are well positioned around CRM, ERP, and COTS in general.
Siebel skills could be built on one of the […]

Hot Tech Skills in Demand for the Coming Years

23 August 2006

With increasing budgets, IT is coming back.  If you are a job seeker with the right skills, it is fairly easy to join the force of 10 million people who make up the U.S. IT job market.  It is true that companies are sending U.S. IT job offshore, but how many?  In my estimate, about […]

What Makes a Top Flight Oracle DBA? How to Obtain the Skills and Experience You Need to Become a High-Paid Oracle Database Admin

18 August 2006

Look at the business facts:
Database is the heart of today’s enterprise.
The whole IT business works around databases.
Oracle is the leading enterprise database server.
That makes an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) so special. As you can see, Oracle DBAs play critical roles in IT, no doubt that experienced DBAs are in high demand and get paid […]

Bare Hand Booster Skills for Today’s IT Professionals

18 August 2006

Several years ago, it was unrealistically easy to get an IT job because that was a time when HTML was called a new programming language and knowing it was considered a hot skill. But having an IT job doesn’t mean you are an IT professional, nor have you secured a career. You have to […]

IT and Computer Skills for Career Success in Information Technology

18 August 2006

IT professionals constantly acquire and enhance technical skills to achieve career success in information technology. How much you worth and how much you make are dependent on the value of your skills in the industry. One of proven strategies for IT career success is to develop top level skills.
IT industry is huge and skills are […]

Build Right Skills for Tomorrow’s IT Jobs

17 August 2006

IT is changing the way of doing business, so as the demands and expectations on It workers. To survive from tomorrow’s IT jobs, IT workers must emerge from deep-seated technical territories and face the business world. Here is a picture of tomorrow’s IT:

The nuts-and-bolts programming and easy-to-document support jobs will have all gone […]