It’s the most hotly disputed topic in IT circles: which companies are going to become the smartphone superpowers? Today, with Blackberry down for the count, Apple and Samsung reign supreme. But Microsoft is making a big—some would say risky—play to muscle its...
There’s no doubt that scripting languages changed our lives in a profound way. JavaScript is the material the Internet is built with. And now, it’s expanding beyond its traditional role as a Web-based language and seeing new applications. In this piece by Nolan...
Spend long enough in a morning traffic jam, and you’ll understand why telecommuting is becoming so popular. That boring hour you spend alternating between the brake and gas pedal costs you time and costs your company money. Studies show that long daily commutes...
It seems that every year, we see new IT job titles popping up, some of which aren’t very self-descriptive. Here’s one: what exactly is a “cloud architect”? And what do they do that an infrastructure or systems architect doesn’t? Coming to a...
When the Internet came of age, recruiters suddenly found themselves living in a much bigger world. But now we’re worried about it growing too fast. “Big data” is becoming a concern for many staffing agencies and HR departments. With the tools now available,...
Pitching your business idea with zero assets of your own sounds like an all-or-nothing risk, but there are many forks along the IT startup road that can lead you to the perfect career. Getting noticed It’s a scene you’ll see all over Toronto these days: a...
There are a few people out there who can give you an honest, evidence-based answer to the question, “what is the meaning of life?” But don’t get your hopes up. The people who study the fabric of the universe, whether at the largest scales (cosmology) or the...
Albert Einstein wasn’t very good at math. That could be read in two different ways. I don’t mean it in the same sense that I’m not very good at using the command-line interface in my Linux Mint operating system. What I’m saying is that as a...
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