Do IT: Breaking In – The Resume Method

In any career your resume is important. In IT it is more important than most because you will spend a greater portion of your career job hunting than in a more traditional field. This is not necessarily a bad thing and should not cause panic. IT often rewards broad experience garnered from different types and …

Do IT: Breaking In – Books and Periodicals

Few fields of study expect the level of reading that Information Technology expects.  Reading is a part of everyday life in IT and the more you read the better position you will be in when interviewing.  The use of paper based books and magazines is obviously diminishing and online resources are beginning to take their …

UNIX Architecture and Operating Systems

This is the video taken of the second time that I lectured on UNIX and Operating System Architecture at Finger Lakes Community College in Canandaigua, New York. The first time that I did this lecture at FLCC I feel that it was much better than this one but it did not get recorded. This is …

April 19, 2008: Traveling to Syracuse

Today’s quote comes from Blaise Pascal: “If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.” I was up and moving before five thirty this morning. Today is a busy day with me covering the early shift at work and putting in more than a half …

Do IT: Breaking In – College and University

Academic experience is the most common way of entering most professions. In Information Technology it likely remains so although it is probably the lowest ratio of such of any technical profession. Collegiate level IT studies suffer from a number of factors that together create a unique situation for the IT industry. The key factors include …