The Obama administration has embraced technology more than any previous Presidential administration. From using YouTube, to redesigning the White House website with open-source Drupal, using a Blackberry, and holding discussions on many social websites, President Obama can certainly be considered as technology-aware. With the 2012 State of the Union Address last night, various … [Read more...]
Computer Professionals Update Act in the US Senate to exempt IT Pros from Overtime Pay
While the sponsors of this bill probably think it funny that they were able to introduce a bill called the CPU Act, or Computer Professionals Update Act, some in IT are getting a bit steamed about the bill that has made its way to committee. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Kay Hagan [D-NC] and is now in the hands of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and … [Read more...]
SysAdmin Appreciation Day 2011
Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day to all of the System Administrators and IT Professionals out there! It seems like people/companies started getting more creative this year. For example, we have a trailer for a web series called SysAdmin, inspired by the XKCD comic Devotion to Duty. So, SysAdmins, enjoy the Friday and hopefully your clients are giving you a little bit of … [Read more...]
How Do IT Professionals Deal With The Career Threat of SaaS (aka The Cloud)?
I followed a recommendation from CompTIA to visit their website CompTIA Software CEO. The first article I found there was titled How to Start a Company Without an IT Professional. I hope I'm not the only one who finds the title alone to be inflammatory. Go ahead and read the article, then I'll see you after the jump so we can have a discussion about the article. … [Read more...]
Pop or Soda? Pepsi or Coke? Binary Numbers Explained.
I figured what better day than January 11th, 2011 (1/11/11) than to write this long overdue post on binary numbers. Binary numbers are one of the fundamental things to computer science that need to be understood before moving onto the more complicated things. It's a system of math and once it clicks, it will open up a lot of other things like understanding logic gates on up … [Read more...]