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  • Win this book: HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook

    Posted January 30, 2012 - 11:47 am

    ITworld is giving away 5 copies of "HTML5 Developer's Cookbook" to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!

  • Win this book: Ubuntu Unleashed

    Posted January 17, 2012 - 3:29 pm

    ITworld is giving away 5 copies of "Ubuntu Unleashed: 2012 Edition" to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!

  • The first million seller e-book is....

    Posted July 28, 2010 - 8:30 pm

    Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It may not have been the first though and it certainly won't be the last.

  • Are the days of books numbered?

    Posted July 20, 2010 - 1:46 pm

    Amazon just sold more e-books in a month than hard-covers. Is this end of the road for the printing press?

  • Three Tips on Choosing the Right Technical Book

    Posted October 16, 2009 - 10:28 am

    After my advice on self-training employees a few days ago, some folks asked me how to pick the right technical books for their situation. Valid question, because popular topics may have a shelf-full of books to choose from. How do you find yours? Try these three tips.

  • The new green data center: From energy avoidance to energy efficiency

    Posted August 6, 2009 - 2:27 pm

    Avoiding energy use is one part of an approach to address power, cooling, floor space and environmental (PCFE) challenges, but not all applications, data or workloads can be consolidated or powered down. The trick is finding the right balance between energy avoidance and energy efficiency, says Greg Schulz, author of 'The Green and Virtual Data Center'.

  • Building mashups that work

    Posted July 28, 2009 - 4:11 pm

    When creating enterprise mashups, steer clear of the 5 'H's -- hide, hoard, hamper, harm, or hurry -- warns Susan Bouchard, co-author of Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals.

  • The tipping point for green IT

    Posted July 8, 2009 - 1:59 pm

    Success for global green IT depends on the continued collaboration among groups within your company, among technology vendors, data center design and build businesses, energy utilities, governments, and organizations such as the Green Grid and the Uptime Institute. In short, almost everyone can collaborate on green IT.

  • Creating mashups: 5 classic mistakes to avoid

    Posted July 8, 2009 - 1:00 pm

    Good mashups are more than just reassemblies of UI artifacts. Steer clear of these 5 classic mistakes.

  • Six survival strategies for technology consultants

    Posted June 15, 2009 - 4:14 pm

    There are many things you can do to create your own job security, says Aaron Erickson, author of "The Nomadic Developer – Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting". Here he offers six proven strategies for weathering the economic downturn.

  • Getting requirements engineering right: 5 keys for success

    Posted May 14, 2009 - 10:31 am

    Requirements engineering is a key part of the product or project lifecycle -- and often the most difficult part, says Brian Berenbach, author of Software & Systems Requirements Engineering: In Practice. Here he offers 5 keys for success (and warns of 5 classic mistakes).

  • Don't troubleshoot alone and other networking advice

    Posted April 13, 2009 - 9:15 am

    What Ray Blair, co-author of Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module (FWSM), likes best about networking technology is that it is continuously changing and there is always more to be learned. But he warns against making things harder for yourself: "Don't troubleshoot alone," says Blair. "A second pair of eyes and ears can be very valuable." Read on for more of Blair's dos and don'ts.

  • Mashups: The end of one-size-fits-all software

    Posted April 9, 2009 - 2:39 pm

    The last remaining bastion of "one size fits all" are the enterprise applications that we accepted as "good enough" and that held us at their mercy for lack of the skills or tools to make them better. Mashup platforms are breaking this cycle.

  • Review

    Book Review: Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition

    Posted March 18, 2009 - 2:35 pm

    If you're a Unix systems administrator who every now and then has to tend to Cisco routers and switches, here's a book that's going to relieve your stress level. Cisco Routers for the Desperate is just that -- nearly everything you need to know when you don't have time to read the tomes of Cisco documentation.

  • Managing a Development Team

    Posted March 6, 2009 - 11:42 am

    As a manager, you need a "toolkit" of approaches you can access when working with your team, says author Louis Testa. Your toolkit should include methods for motivating people, making yourself available, choosing the team's tools, organizing the team, setting up the workspace, managing projects, resolving conflict, and communicating with your team. With multiple tools and approaches on hand, you can select the best tools for the job. As the saying goes, if your only tool is a saw, then the solution to every problem is to cut.

  • 5 Rules for virtualization success

    Posted March 3, 2009 - 5:30 pm

    "What we like best about virtualization is the dynamic nature of it," say Nelson Ruest and Danielle Ruest, authors of Virtualization: A Beginner's Guide. "The server is no longer constrained in its physical envelope and because of this it becomes much more malleable which makes it so much easier to work with." Their advice to newbies: Start with the free versions of virtualization technologies available from Sun, Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, and many others and test, test, and retest.

  • Managing change

    Posted February 26, 2009 - 12:18 pm

    "Change and release control aren't optional any more. You must have adequate control of IT changes in order to stay compliant with governmental and industry regulations," says Larry Klosterboer, author of Implementing ITIL Change and Release Management. Here he offers advice for making change and release management a source of cost savings for your business.

  • Securing VoIP

    Posted February 12, 2009 - 5:12 pm

    There are too many sources of vulnerability for VoIP to ever be completely secure, says Patrick Park, author of VoIP Security. Here he describes the VoIP threat landscape and offers best practices for making VoIP reasonably secure.

  • Five must-dos for Exchange Server 2007 (and 5 don'ts)

    Posted February 9, 2009 - 3:42 pm

    J. Peter Bruzzese, author of 'Exchange Server 2007 How-To', knows a thing or two about Exchange. One piece of advice: "Get reacquainted with the command-line, my friend. It's not disappearing and any Exchange guru (or Windows guru) worth his title these days is a command-line lover." See the rest of his must-dos...

  • Getting started with security visualization

    Posted February 3, 2009 - 5:04 pm

    Having spent 6 years shooting crossbow and air rifle on the Swiss National Team, Raffael Marty knows how to shoot straight. Here, the author of Applied Security Visualization shares 3 must-dos (and 3 don'ts) for getting started with visualization.

  • Building business-focused communications solutions

    Posted January 30, 2009 - 9:00 am

    Joe Schurman, author of Microsoft Voice and Unified Communications shares 5 must-dos for getting the most out of unified communications, as well as some things to avoid.

  • 5 security must-dos - and 5 don'ts

    Posted January 28, 2009 - 2:57 pm

    "Don't implement security yourself in your own network even if you are an IT security expert. You can't police yourself," says Jack Voth, author of author of Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks from Start to Finish. Here he shares 5 security must-dos and surprising 5 don'ts.

  • Preparing for the CCIE R/S Written Exam

    Posted January 26, 2009 - 9:00 am

    Anthony Sequeira, author of CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Quick Reference, shares tips and advice for passing the CCIE R/S Written Exam, including 3 classic mistakes exam-takers make.

  • Planning a secure migration to IPv6

    Posted January 22, 2009 - 1:00 am

    You should begin planning your secure migration to IPv6 sooner rather than later, says Scott Hogg, author of IPv6 Security. Remember the tortoise and the hare story. You will regret not spending more time planning when you end up scrambling to implement it in a hurry. And besides, learning about IPv6 is exciting because it's new.

  • Wireless networking: Back to basics

    Posted January 19, 2009 - 9:00 am

    When people are just getting into wireless networking they can often be overwhelmed by the amount of information that is out there, says Brandon Carroll, author of the CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide. His advice: "Learn the fundamentals. Learn them inside out.... The sooner you get the big picture the easier it becomes to configure a wireless network as various parameters begin to take shape in your mind."
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