Four U.S. senators have sent a letter to President Trump that asks for a suspension of all new guest worker visas, including the H-1B, for at least the | Continue reading
In this final installment on learning Git (part one is here, followed by part two and part three), we’re going to cover an important topic: Remote | Continue reading
Are AWS certifications important? How many are available, and what do they cost to obtain? Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts and services many of the | Continue reading
Although Git is integrated in many different editors, such as Visual Studio Code, it’s important to also know how to use Git from the command line. If | Continue reading
Long before COVID-19 swept across the United States, technologists from all walks of life were expressing their displeasure with the open office. However, | Continue reading
The new Dice job report reveals how the technology industry is weathering the current COVID-19 pandemic, by cities and skills. | Continue reading
Thanks to COVID-19, you’re trapped inside. It’s a stressful time… but it’s also an opportunity to learn some new stuff, including any programming | Continue reading
Prior to iOS 13, converting a date from the Date object to a nicely formatted string such as “10 days ago” or “next month” required a lot of | Continue reading
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has temporarily suspended all in-person activities at its offices. That lockdown, which is related to | Continue reading
The latest breakdown of technology skills among employers show that Python, Java, and other languages dominate the overall list. | Continue reading
Looking back, it’s amazing how rapidly COVID-19 has swamped the world’s focus. People are self-quarantining in response to the virus; industries are | Continue reading
Over the past few weeks, as concerns over COVID-19 have grown, more companies have asked employees to work from home. As governments have ordered | Continue reading
We now have H-1B data for all four quarters of fiscal year 2019, which emphasizes a trend that’s been underway for the entirety of the Trump | Continue reading
The beginning of a new month means it’s time for the TIOBE Index to unveil its updated list of the most popular programming languages. If you follow that | Continue reading
Programming languages fade. It’s an inevitable fact of life: The old and tired is inevitably replaced by the new and better (or at least slightly | Continue reading
Welcome to the 2020 edition of the Dice Salary Report. In order to obtain the latest data on the top technology salaries, we surveyed more than 12,800 | Continue reading
If you’re a software developer on the hunt for a new gig (or you’re merely curious about what programming skills employers are looking for these days), | Continue reading
It's a new year, and employers are struggling to fill certain tech jobs, including network administrator and business intelligence analyst. | Continue reading
Want to become a video-game designer? The potential rewards are vast—nobody in the industry has forgotten how Markus Persson, the creator of “Minecraft,” | Continue reading
For years, the tech industry has dangled the promise of no- and low-code app builders. And on paper, the idea is a good one: Companies get to build all | Continue reading
Deutsche Bank’s technology division hasn’t had the best press in recent years. In 2018, Kim Hammonds, its then-COO who was charged with | Continue reading
As we progress into a new decade, two things are clear: The biggest names in tech are really interested in cloud-based gaming, and they’re clearly willing | Continue reading
Many tech pros are contractors, and while the contracting lifestyle has its advantages (including the flexibility to choose projects), there are also some | Continue reading
The C programming language is almost 50 years old, and it's still a powerhouse. Why is that, and is the language still worth learning? | Continue reading
Come next year, tech firms that want to hire H-1B visa workers will face a process that’s supposed to be simplified… but might turn into a complete | Continue reading
How much do entry-level engineers, analysts, and technologists make at some of the country’s most prominent financial firms and banks? More to the point, | Continue reading
It’s no secret that companies all over the world are putting greater emphasis on cybersecurity skills. The costs of a potential data breach are | Continue reading
Python has gained an absurd amount of momentum in 2019, despite already being a much-used programming language. What's behind this rise? | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Amazon abruptly canceled its plans to build a massive “second headquarters” (dubbed HQ2) in New York City’s Long Island City | Continue reading
As we head into the end of 2019, which tech skills are in greatest demand among employers? And which employers are hiring the most technologists? We used | Continue reading
Over the past decade, Dell has undergone a wild ride. Once a public (and very high-profile) company, it went private in 2013. After that, it swallowed up | Continue reading
As we head into 2020, it’s clear that nothing much has changed in the cybersecurity community: threats are still very real, and the hunger for experienced | Continue reading
Across the technology industry, CEOs are stepping down, according to new data from staffing firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Is that a warning sign | Continue reading
Sobering hiring statistics have led companies to consider hiring and training military veterans to fill vital cybersecurity positions. | Continue reading
As we close out 2019, it’s clear that data is king, at least when it comes to the jobs that employers demand. Our December breakdown of data from Burning | Continue reading
If you want to work for Google (or its parent company, Alphabet), it will help if you can code in one of four key programming languages. Fortunately, | Continue reading
It’s been a year of big changes for the H-1B visa—and things aren’t done yet. The next 12 months could fundamentally change everything about the visa, | Continue reading
Which programming language has the most vulnerabilities? WhiteSource, which produces an open-source security and license-compliance platform, recently | Continue reading
For years, package management with Swift was accomplished with (often clumsy) CocoaPods or Carthage tooling. With Xcode 11, the Swift Package Manager is | Continue reading
Employers’ hunger for mathematicians and data engineers seems insatiable, according to our November breakdown of data from Burning Glass’s NOVA platform, | Continue reading
When it comes to automation taking away jobs, a new report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch is predicting what amounts to near-total apocalypse: 800 | Continue reading
Let’s face it: Although we’d all like C-suite pay, precious few people actually land jobs as CEO, CTO, or CIO. However, there are several tech jobs that | Continue reading
Palantir is an ultra-secretive data analytics startup that nonetheless makes big headlines. How much does it pay its software engineers? | Continue reading
JPMorgan is busy growing an artificial intelligence (A.I.) team in California. The bank is currently advertising seven A.I. roles in San Mateo (down from | Continue reading
Which programming languages are on the rise? That’s always a difficult question to answer, but GitHub’s annual State of the Octoverse report gives us | Continue reading
No code and low code platforms are becoming an increasingly popular way to build apps. But do they represent a threat to actual developers? | Continue reading
What certifications and skills are needed for a career in cybersecurity? That’s a pressing question, especially as employers continue to hunger for | Continue reading
Can A.I. and machine learning finally solve the longtime problem of ageism in tech hiring? In theory, yes. But in practice, it might be hard. | Continue reading