http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/1419/all xx http://www.itworld.com/career/73441/there-goes-programming-neighborhood It's healthy and good for a software development community to take care of itself. But when the community begins to imagine that its experiences are just like those of people outside the community... it's time to worry. http://www.itworld.com/career/73441/there-goes-programming-neighborhood#comments Career Development Opinion java software developers Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:12:50 -0400 ITworld staff 73441 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/career/72588/career-advice-why-geeks-change-jobs A lot of folks change jobs to make work fun again, even if it makes their financial state more precarious. Is your job fun? Would you take a chance on trying to find one that's more fun? http://www.itworld.com/career/72588/career-advice-why-geeks-change-jobs#comments Career Development Tip software developers Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:24:58 -0400 ITworld staff 72588 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/69947/gosh-things-are-better-developers-these-days Let's take a moment to appreciate how much has improved, in a developer's lot, over the last decade. In particular, contemplate how many "basic" programming concepts and "everybody knows" knowledge didn't exist in your life. http://www.itworld.com/development/69947/gosh-things-are-better-developers-these-days#comments Career Development Opinion java programmers software developers Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:54:56 -0400 ITworld staff 69947 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/career/68920/developers-day-djs-night The music crescendos and the dancers lose themselves in the expanding beats. Overseeing all of this music and movement is not a jet-set superstar DJ from London or Ibiza with an ego the size of his MP3 collection. Increasingly, it's a mild-mannered software developer who's in the DJ booth, manning two turntables and a MacBook. http://www.itworld.com/career/68920/developers-day-djs-night#comments Career Feature software developers Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:54:26 -0400 ITworld staff 68920 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/59978/2008-review-mac-developers-who-made-news Thanks to its size and its prominence in the Mac universe, Apple tends to dominate the discussion when it comes to chronicling the major news events hitting the platform in the past year. That’s understandable, but it doesn’t paint a full picture of the Mac market, which also features plenty of third-party developers who made headlines of their own in 2008. Here are some of the Mac developers who stood out from the crowd over the past 12 months. http://www.itworld.com/development/59978/2008-review-mac-developers-who-made-news#comments Development Operating systems Opinion macintosh software developers Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:45:50 -0500 ITworld staff 59978 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/development/54757/eight-reasons-cios-think-developers-are-clueless What CIOs and IT leaders wish programmers knew about the bigger-picture view of their organizations. http://www.itworld.com/development/54757/eight-reasons-cios-think-developers-are-clueless#comments Development Feature software developers Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:23:39 -0400 ITworld staff 54757 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/saas/54404/why-saas-could-make-your-it-skills-irrelevant Tom Clement has reinvented his career before. In 1984, he realized working in technology would suit him better than his job as a litigator in Texas. "I came home one day from work, and I was used to being really tense," he says. "But that day, my secretary's recorder had broke. I'd taken it apart, put it back together, and somehow, it worked. I was whistling and in a good mood because of it, and my girlfriend heard me and said,'Tom, maybe you were made for a different line of work.'" http://www.itworld.com/saas/54404/why-saas-could-make-your-it-skills-irrelevant#comments Career SaaS Tip software developers Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:04:51 -0400 ITworld staff 54404 at http://www.itworld.com