Monthly Archives: December 2011

PASS Speaking Results

Posted on December 9, 2011 by way0utwest

I got the PASS speaking results today on the new speaker portal. They posted the top sessions as well, overall and in each track. I did two sessions, and here are my summarized results: Branding Yourself for a Dream Job … Continue reading →

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The Employment Contract

Posted on December 9, 2011 by way0utwest

I ran across this piece on how we should pay people from Business Week. It’s a look at the issues of specifying the exact work that someone will do once you hire them. I suspect this is a problem in many industries, … Continue reading →

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Not So Unbreakable

Posted on December 8, 2011 by way0utwest

There’s a report on Dark Reading that says some researchers think Oracle is not working on security as hard as they should. The proportion of security fixes has diminished, which some people think implies that they are not taking security as seriously … Continue reading →

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Data Usage

Posted on December 8, 2011 by way0utwest

This is somewhat shocking to me. I was reading about ATT’s decision to throttle some high bandwidth users, and there was this quote in the article: “But as business rises, so does data usage. J.P. Morgan estimates that the average … Continue reading →

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