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These CIOs know how to set up IT operations quickly and take them down just as fast. Here's what you can learn from people who work on the fly.

IT hiring managers, executives and career coaches weigh in on this onboarding checklist that will help you get your new hires up to speed in no time.

Most experienced developers can think of a time when they worked on a team with other accomplished programmers. Yet the code quality was anywhere from “eh” to “oh god you didn’t actually ship that did you?!” Here’s how this can happen, and what to do to minimize the chances it’ll happen to you.

As I zoned out this morning, sipping coffee and watching my dogs wrestle on the couch, I wondered, "If my dogs were Linux distributions, which ones would they be?" Yes, these are the thoughts that run through my head as I get started in the morning.

As is somewhat typical of emerging technologies, there isn't a universally agreed to definition of what is meant by software defined networking (SDN). Over the last year or two most of the definitions have focused on the decoupling of the network control plane from the network forwarding plane.

Some ancient technology is still useful -- and some just won't die.

For many of us, the cloud has changed the way we work and play. Thanks to well-known services like Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook and Instapaper, practically our whole lives -- photos, documents, contacts and more -- are online. So isn't it time to take control?

Behind the headlines, these firms help form the foundation of the IT industry.

In part 1, we learned important PostgreSQL fundamentals. Today, we'll learn how to populate a table with data, and about important concepts like schema, normalization, views, and transactions.

Once upon a time, the United States led the world in science, inventions, research and development, and technology. Now we're a nation of fat dumb Facebook addicts and the rest of the world is kicking our butts. How did we go from world leader to world loser?

Do you know where your system administrator is? If you're like most of us, it's not always easy to track down a good sysadmin: They're always out on the floors, getting their hands dirty (metaphorically, and occasionally literally) while fixing network, server, and desktop issues at a moment's notice.