Get ready to put your best foot forward with these geek tips for starting the new year right.
As 2014 draws to a close, we begin look ahead for what lies in store for the next year. While most New Year’s resolutions seldom see February 1st, these tech tips can be implemented so fast you won’t have time to lose your initiative.
The past several months have certainly shown the havoc that can be wrought by unscrupulous jerks with access to other people’s data. Taking the time to reset your passwords is a great start, but you should also be thinking how you’re going to manage your security credentials for the new year. Here are some things to consider.
Another aspect of security that you may want to reconsider is your privacy settings on your social networks. The simple fact is that we tend to publish much more about our lives out to the Internet at large than we probably intend. While recent attempts have been made to limit the scope and longevity of that data, the adage is that once it’s on the Internet its there forever. Here are some links to help you get started deciding for yourself where you want your status updates and tweets going.
You may not realize it but there’s a war going on in the cloud. As a result, the big cloud vendors are cutting prices on a nearly quarterly basis to try to gain or keep a competitive edge over their rivals. Microsoft for example reduced prizes for compute by 35% in March based on pricing set by Amazon and Google followed after that. In addition to better pricing you’re also getting quite a bit of new services available on all of the platforms including RemoteApp application virtualization and Amazon RDS for Aurora. As infrastructure and platforms become a commodity, all developers and eventually customers will be able to take advantage. So look again, you may be able to get that same virtual machine at a better price from another vendor.
Just as your tools need resharpening, so do you skills if you want to keep up with the never ending flow of new technology. The holidays are a great time to jump start learning new programming languages, new models for development, or just how to be a better programmer. If you’re looking to add to your intellectual tool belt, there’s no better place to do that than at WintellectNOW. Of course, we are a bit biased. Other resources include a subscription to SafariOnline for technical publications, or perhaps attend a conference such as Microsoft Build, Apple WDC, Amazon AWS re:Invent, or Google I/O.
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