IT Survey Results
View our 20 question survey results from 7,108 recipients living within 100 miles of Kansas City. Our survey covered everything from average salary to satisfaction at your current job.

What Job Recruiters Can and Can't Do for You
While we can be incredibly helpful, it's important to understand how most recruiters work in order to avoid job-search frustration and disappointment. Recruiters don't want to make a bad match, so help them by being upfront about your career goals. Get your questions answered and your concerns heard throughout the process.

Beat Interview Brainteasers
How many quarters -- placed one on top of the other -- would it take to reach the top of the Empire State Building?

When Jeremy Solomon was asked this in an interview, he didn't have a clue as to what would be the correct answer. Nonetheless, he remained calm.

Top 10 IT Skills in Demand
What skill set will your company be looking to add in 2010? These skills are the top answers and range from Project Managers to Security Programmers.

Three Ways to Fill Your Resume Gaps
You’ve got a stellar resume, impeccable references and a ton of experience. You also have an eight-month gap in your employment history. And while that time you spent cliff jumping and swimming with dolphins was personally enriching for you, it may signal total slacker to prospective employees -- if you don’t spin it the right way. Here are ways to explain your time off.

Why Big Companies Hire Freelancers
Author Shane Pearlman lists 6 reasons they have experienced which help explain why big companies hire freelancers. Reasons stretch from internal limitations to they are simply slammed with too much work in this article.

Web Development For The iPhone And iPad
I know that most discussion about the iPhone OS platform centers on native applications. But you can still create powerful, native-looking applications using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. This article focuses on three phases of building and optimizing your website: design, coding and testing.

Five-year plan: 8 problems IT must solve
You can't march into the future dragging old problems that should already have a solution.
Here's what must be done.

IT Partners With Business
Leaders of many organizations fully understand that the IT department must contribute as a partner to offer value to the enterprise.  However, too many organizations still look at IT as nonstrategic service provider or as a cost center.

So how can any IT organization change this perception?

10 great iPhone apps for business collaboration
Get work done on the go and stay connected with your team with these 10 killer apps for your iPhone.

HTML5: The Facts And The Myths
You can’t escape it. Everyone’s talking about HTML5. it’s perhaps the most hyped technology since people started putting rounded corners on everything and using unnecessary gradients. In fact, a lot of what people call HTML5 is actually just old-fashioned DHTML or AJAX. Mixed in with all the information is a lot of misinformation, so here, JavaScript expert Remy Sharp and Opera’s Bruce Lawson look at some of the myths and sort the truth from the common misconceptions.

Developer error: The most dangerous programming mistakes
Programmers often like to talk about how a new tool or a new version of their favorite platform will make coding faster, easier, or more elegant. Although this may be true, it ignores just how difficult and painstaking the process of developing quality software actually is, no matter what tools are used.

How to live with malware infections
Malware has grown sophisticated to the point where there's no guarantee that it's actually gone, even when you've applied the latest antivirus software. Making matters worse, IT infrastructures are becoming much more complex -- with an ever-growing population of devices that give malware even more possible entry points.

A surefire bet for IT job security
Become a guru in one of the remaining ERP suites: SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft (who would have expected it to survive Oracle?), or NetSuite. Yes, guru -- you can either make one of these packages sing, dance, and play the tuba, or you're just another schlemiel.

NoSQL should be in your business, and MongoDB could lead the way
Although NoSQL may not be well understood by IT, one vendor appears to be cracking into the enterprise

Four Companies Rethink Databases For The Cloud
Several companies are developing new database technologies to solve what they see as the shortcomings of traditional, relational database management systems in a cloud environment.
Four of them described the approaches they're taking during a panel at the GigaOm Structure conference on Thursday.

What IT Can Learn From Steve Jobs
Much has been written about Steve Jobs's impact on the tech industry, as well as his visionary role as a business leader. But if you're looking to move your IT organization forward, what you need to learn from Steve Jobs boils down to one thing: Focus on upside potential, not downside risk.

How to Migrate File Shares to SharePoint 2010
After speaking at TechMentor in Las Vegas last month, I was approached by someone who asked how to migrate to SharePoint 2010. At first I thought he meant how he might migrate from an earlier version, but he actually meant how to get the file shares into SharePoint 2010 smoothly. I thought, "Great question. I have no idea."

How To Improve Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Most enterprises claim they fully exercise their disaster recovery plans at least once per year, however, evidence suggests that the majority of these exercises are not comprehensive and thorough; enterprises often just exercise a portion of the plan or a subset of applications. Here are10 best practices for updating and improving your current disaster recovery exercise program.

Why Top Talent Leaves: Top 10 Reasons Boiled Down to 1
Top talent leave an organization when they’re badly managed and the organization is confusing and uninspiring.

What tech managers can do to hold on to their best talent
When top talent leaves, the entire organization feels the repercussions, and the morale of those remaining usually suffers. The loss of key, high-profile employees signals corporate uncertainty to the rest of the workforce.

Should the CIO know how to code?
"In his mind, everything in technology can be reduced to dollars and time," says Walton, who, to protect his job, asked that his real name not be used.

IT Spending Outlook: American Small and Midsized Business
Here’s a look at some of the highlights from IDC’s report “US Small- and Medium-Sized Business 2012 to 2016 Forecast.”