Favorite posts this year included several IT career topics, along with Windows 7 speed tips, HTML5 tags, development project mistakes, and cross-platform tools.
In 2012, the 10 Things blog covered everything from end-user support priorities to career strategies to decision factors around emerging technologies, new platforms, and proliferating mobile devices. Here’s our annual rundown of what sparked the most attention during the past year.
Stress, exhaustion, health problems, poor job performance, apathy — all these can be yours if you commit a few career sins and get burned out.
Many of your users are coasting along without adequate computer knowledge. Help them close the gap by sharing this list of essential skills.
It’s no secret that IT pros aren’t too popular with some clients and end users. Alan Norton considers some of the underlying reasons for the bad press.
HTML5 offers new tags and attributes that provide more power, efficiency, and flexibility for your Web development. Here are 10 tags you’ll want to check out.
You don’t have to live with a Windows 7 machine that’s becoming unbearably slow. These basic steps will optimize system performance.
Social networking has had a huge impact on how we communicate and interact — but some people refuse to get caught up in the trend.
When you combine project management pitfalls with software development challenges, you have a recipe for some big (but often preventable) problems.
After you’ve been in IT for a while, you pick up all sorts of random knowledge. Jack Wallen shares a few highlights from almost 20 years in the field.
Today’s IT pro needs both technical expertise and soft skills — that’s nothing new. But the scope of those in-demand soft skills just keeps growing.
With mixed-platform environments on the rise, you need tools that can handle whatever systems you’re supporting. Here are 10 invaluable cross-platform applications.
Does Outlook’s pokey performance have you gnashing your teeth with frustration? Try these simple fixes to give it a kick in the pants.
Women traveling by themselves need to take some extra precautions. Here are a few practical pointers to help women stay safe on those solo business trips.
Do you remember the days of BBSes and shareware subscriptions, magazines full of BASIC code for your CoCo, and true desktop cases? Take a techie stroll down memory lane.
Comparing this year’s concerns to the things we were worrying about last year offers an interesting view of where things might be headed. Here are the posts that topped the list in 2011:
What technologies, issues, and solutions would you like to see featured in the 10 Things blog during 2013? Please post your suggestions below and help us cover the things that matter to you.
Jody Gilbert has been writing and editing technical articles for the past 25 years. She was part of the team that launched TechRepublic.
