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Latest shakeups at Dell, HP, and Cisco show interesting trends

Name one of the big vendors who hasn't had a huge restructuring, merger, or acquisition lately. I'm talking specifically about Dell/EMC, The new HP Enterprise, and Cisco. It's been a very act...

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Django Settings for Multiple Environments

Update July 2019: I can confirm this tutorial still works great with the latest version of Django 2. When working by yourself, on a single server, it's easy to simply change the django settings whe...

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Is Google’s AMP the Next Bootstrap?

Last month, Google announced Accelerated Mobile Pages , or AMP for short. A friend of mine who works at the Big G told me about it, but after reading the press release I still had no clue what it wa...

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3 Keys to Building Your Tech Team

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Jim Smith . Jim was speaking about an HR topic – workforce planning. I had always assumed such topics were completely irrelevant to me. I’m a hard-skilled ...

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A Comparison of Responsive Web Frameworks in 2015

Front-end frameworks: The amazing sets of development tools that help make the modern web look great. Their existence means web developers can spend less time worrying about CSS and allow them to foc...

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Do Differences in Tech Affect Culture of the Workplace?

A colleague recently told me the story of her Midwestern company, a .NET shop, acquiring a west coast company, an “open source” (Ruby, PHP, Python) shop. She was shocked at how different the cultures...

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Betrayal, Failure, and Fixing Your IT Department

I work with IT departments all the time, small and large. I've been on the inside (corporate IT), the outside (a business unit), and even the out -outside (a 3rd party consultant). The...

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