Wow. Imagine working your butt off to get a certification only to have it actually...

I'm generally pro-certification, but specifically anti-Microsoft certification since so much of the information learned for passing their exams are product specific, and therefore, obsolete in relatively short order.

The IEEE...

I love Steve, but this is a broad generalization...

A great post from Steve, as always.

But I do have sort of a related complaint about the technology community. It seems to me that in the IT world, many...

One advantage to moving the conference to different cities is that people who aren't given a travel budget to attend an out-of-town conference would have an opportunity to attend a...

Thanks for the heads up Steve.

I'll add another issue that I have with my Toshiba Satellite laptop. It was advertised as having a four hour battery life. In reality,...

Just to throw a wrench in the discussion, I consider myself to be a database developer, but not a database administrator. I'm a web application developer, and rather than outsourcing...

Thanks all! I'll let you know when I'm done (two to four years of nights/weekends). I'll be a few years older anyway. Might as well be a few years...

This thread has, in part, inspired me to finally take the plunge. I was already thinking about it, and although I'm extremely skeptical about the enormous tuition costs of executive...

Thank you Gail. I'm sorry. I didn't notice that you're in South Africa. Personally, I'm hoping to find something a little closer to home, but maybe somebody will be inspired...

Thank you Steve.

Gail, I sent you a private message, but maybe others would like to know too. What is the name of the institution/program where you're working on your Masters...

I know Steve didn't intend to start a thread now about the cost of further education, but I had to agree to disagree with one statement--at least with regard to...

Early in my career, I was never happy with my employer and changed jobs frequently. I didn't realize it then, but I was looking for a boss that agreed with...

"An implied warranty of merchantability is an unwritten and unspoken guarantee to the buyer that goods purchased conform to ordinary standards of care and that they are of the same...

We had a company meeting yesterday where I learned that our benefits no longer include short-term disability or life insurance. In addition, work missed for reasons that would ordinarily be...