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Back to the Classroom: An IT Veteran Seeks Technical Enlightenment

I had an epiphany the other day while looking at line 6257 of a 15,983-line UNIX shell...

Young Developers Get Old Mainframers’ Jobs

Last spring one of my co-workers went to college campuses to recruit prospective “young mainframers.” Young mainframers? Isn’t that...

Why Are User Interfaces Programmed so Poorly?

In the early days of computers—sometime after the invention of the abacus but before you could buy...

Ten Secrets of Successful Tech Support

If you’ve had to deal with a computer for more than a few nanoseconds, you’ve probably experienced...