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The Cult of the Complex

A List Apart

In 2001, more and more of us began using CSS to replace the non-semantic HTML table layouts with which we’d designed the web’s earliest sites. For them, it’s a matter of job security and viability. Technical complexity. Admitting the problem is the first step in solving it. And the div cries Mary. But that’s what it has become.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). That may or may not be advisable for career development, but it’s a reality that businesses built on training and learning have to acknowledge.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

CIO

For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. Security tops the list According to this year’s State of the CIO survey , cybersecurity and risk management are the top investment areas for 45% of IT leader respondents.

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Five World-Changing Software Innovations

LeanEssays

Big Data In 2001 Doug Cutting released Lucene, a text indexing and search program, under the Apache software license. And I admired Google for sharing these sophisticated technical insights. An early attempt at visual engagement was the PicturePhone of the 1970’s – a textbook example of a technical success and a commercial disaster.