Tatiana Andronache

Do you know what CVS is? If you read these lines, you might as well have it. CVS stands for Computer Vision Syndrome. Your optometrist will be happy to oblige if you ask for explanations.

Before e-mail and instant messaging, a manager of mine by the name of Jeff knew how to make his presence felt and be an efficient self-promoter. As a newly hired manager, he advertised that he was the first in the office in the morning, and the last to leave in the evening.

While the software development profession still tries to sort out its identity as either a science or an art, many practitioners know that when it comes to time reporting, it is more like an assembly line job. A fixed number of hours a day (same number every day), must be fed into the timesheet.

After a significant number of reworks requested by his reviewer, an emotionally depleted IT analyst eventually threw the binder containing his work in his colleague

In the traditional villages of the not-so-distant past, people talked the same language or dialect. Today, the world (or the global village, as we have come to think of it) shares no less than 6809 living languages. The wonders of information and communication technology have made their way even to the remotest places on the planet. So what language do we use now, and how?

While IT professionals are constantly reminded that they must upgrade their skills to stay current and move up the career ladder, training has become the Cinderella of IT corporate budgets. In the current economic climate, enterprises are finding they must cut costs

Someone once asked the great Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo how he would like to die. He replied,

“I am not 45. I am a 20-year-old with twenty-five years of experience,” proclaimed a t-shirt I once spotted in a crowd. Now, if...