Well, don't be surprised too much. What you younger folks are facing is the fact that a company can discover a need for a skill, and instead of training...

Rod:

I had the same experience for many years of the lack of company involvement in furthering your IT skills. One good solution is to take it upon yourself to...

It's not a sad day to see better coders if you contributed to making them so. Mentoring is a benefit and pleasure of being the oldest and most experienced.

david.wright-948385 (5/15/2014)

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Horses for courses: if you produce a product using Cobol,...

I'm not sure without researching it if APL and what we called in the old days Assembler Language are the...

Koen Verbeeck (5/15/2014)

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skeleton567 (5/15/2014)

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Gary Varga (5/15/2014)

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The other reason is that because we deal with abstract concepts, as opposed to the real world with its laws of physics, there are...

Gary Varga (5/15/2014)

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The other reason is that because we deal with abstract concepts, as opposed to the real world with its laws of physics, there are far more ways...

Some techies should not be managers, and I was one of them. At one point I was hired to start up a new IT shop for a fairly large...

First of all, check for the existence of a created/changed timestamp you might use to...

How long needs to tempered by a responsible DBA constantly reminding folks that equipment and software are aging, becoming obsolete, impossible to support or fix if broken. Don't commit...

David.Poole (4/6/2014)

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Carla Wilson-484785 (4/3/2014)

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Stephanie J Brown (3/31/2014)

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... If instead of "Women in Technology" the group was called "Breaking Barriers in Technology", it might be viewed through a different lens. ...

And when something DOES affect you directly, it's easy to lose your objectivity.:-)

Wow, just...WOW

Tom, you make good and valid observations about the supply of technical people when I (we?) started in IT. My college had a small computer, but it was buried...

Goofy, please understand that the concept of socioeconomic status has been around for decades and is a legitimate sociological term ( Sociology was actually my degree field ). Just...