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The Best and Worst Tech Interview Questions
- 2006, for DevSource.com. Your manager put you on the list of people to interview the latest programming team candidate. What do you ask that isn't lame, and ...
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Esther's IT World Blog: Great Wide Open
- I'm blogging about open source and (to a lesser degree) software development for IT World. This link takes you to the blog summary.
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A Do-It-Yourself Open Source Conference: +1
- June, 2009, Linux.com: a report on the Open Source Bridge conference in Portland Oregon.
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How to Sponsor an Open Source Sprint
- For IT World, June 2009, feature article: In an open source sprint, you can add new functionality to your most important application for less money than your ...
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Twitter tackles the story of your life in 140 characters
- For Digital Landing. I've written several "short-and-sweet" articles for this site, with the target reader a non-technical consumer (say, my sister... or ...
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Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
- Computerworld, April 2009. 11 skills and tactics that every programmer once needed to master ... and today can blissfully forget.
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Negotiating for the Best Job Offer: Survey Says DO IT!
- For CIO.com, 2008. (Even when I'm a writer, I'm doing research.) IT professionals who negotiate for a better salary and benefits package during their job ...
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Would You Fire This Person?
- For CIO.com, 2008. It's easy to fire an incompetent employee; you know they failed. But what do you do with a high-maintenance problem employee? Read this case ...
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26 Ways To Know Your Software Development Project Is Doomed
- For CIO.com, 2008. There's always a moment when you realize that all is lost, that there is absolutely no way THIS project can be a success. Here's a few signs ...
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My "You're the Boss" blog
- My primary blog at CIO.com was this one, whose theme was "How would you solve this management problem?" Among the posts you'll find here are "Four Non-Obvious ...
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My CIO "Developer Wisdom" blog
- I used this CIO.com blog for opinion pieces specifically about software development topics. Among the posts you'll find here are "Does IE6 still matter?" "It's ...
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Technologies We're Glad are Dead
- for CIO.com, 2007. It's easy to cry over the products we loved and lost. But let's take time to appreciate the many ways in which technology really has ...
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Service-Oriented Architecture Pays Off for Synovus Financial
- For CIO.com, 2008. Case study. The winning solution in the case study contest sponsored by the SOA Consortium and CIO magazine [of which I was one of the ...
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25 highly anticipated open-source releases coming this year
- Computerworld, March 2009. Among the major open-source releases due in 2009 are several familiar to you -- and more that are worth discovering. From software ...
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Esther's JavaWorld Blog: Irregular Expressions
- In late February 2009 I began blogging for JavaWorld about career tips for code wranglers.
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Is Open Source a Good Career Bet for Developers?
- For Linux Developer Network, 2009: Programmers may argue about whether it's easier to find a job as a Linux developer or as a Windows developer. But getting ...
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Esther's Resume
- Learn about Esther's background.
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About Bill
- Bill Schindler: software architect, writer, and ...
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Esther's Books
- These are the books I've written, or to which I've contributed chapters.
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Esther's CIO.com articles
- This link leads to my author bio and all the articles I wrote for CIO.com. You'll also find a few specific articles below.
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Product Review: Timestrip Monitors Product Freshness — With No Effort
- I occasionally review consumer electronics items that have little or nothing to do with computers. This article examines "smart tags" that let you track how ...
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Exploring the Black Forest by Train
- For German Life magazine, 2006, short feature: "An old railway gives you a unique view of the German countryside as it twists and turns through mountainous ...
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Girl Power
- January 2000, Sm@rt Reseller. A column about the role of women in IT.
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Mobile IPV6 on Linux
- For LabRat Magazine, 2005, technology feature: This article explores the issues in developing and testing mobile applications with IPV6. Even if you don't care ...
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How to Write a Product Review
- I've written hundreds of product reviews, most of which appeared in print publications and aren't online. I've also mentored plenty of authors on the process ...
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E-learning course: Working on Virtual Teams
- I wrote two online courses about virtual teams: this one, about being a member of a virtual team, and another one about managing such teams. I'm rather proud ...
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OS/2 Will Run Windows Applications Again
- InformationWeek, October, 2001. Connectix's Virtual PC for OS/2 will let OS/2 users run Windows and Linux applications. Short news item
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Stalking The Wild Software Defect
- SD Times, August, 2002, feature article: "Some development managers release impressive software armed with only a spreadsheet, a pile of Post-it notes and a ...
