Новости за 28.02.2018

Once upon a time, the fourth Tuesday of the month was reserved by Microsoft for non-security patches. How times have changed. Yesterday, we saw a bunch of new bug warnings — including an admonition to uninstall a previous buggy .Net Preview patch — and an unexpected fourth update this month for Office 365’s reputedly stable Monthly Channel.

Blockchain developers are in short supply and hot demand.

The job of developing blockchain distributed ledgers for businesses was recently ranked second among the top 20 fastest-growing job skills, and postings for workers with those skills grew more than 200% last year.

Salaries for blockchain developer or "engineer" positions are accordingly high, with median salaries in the U.S. hovering around $130,000 a year; that compares to general software developers, whose annual median pay is $105,000... Читать дальше...

Blockchain developers are in short supply and hot demand.

The job of developing blockchain distributed ledgers for businesses was recently ranked second among the top 20 fastest-growing job skills, and postings for workers with those skills grew more than 200% last year.

Salaries for blockchain developer or "engineer" positions are accordingly high, with median salaries in the U.S. hovering around $130,000 a year; that compares to general software developers, whose annual median pay is $105,000... Читать дальше...

It's the run-up to Y2K, and this big life insurance company has come up with a bright idea for keeping future IT costs down, reports a pilot fish there: Lay off 10 percent of the IT staff every decade.

Can anyone remember when Apple’s Steve Jobs announced the iPhone by its three main functions, “An iPod, a phone and an Internet communicator”? A freshly-disclosed patent application hints the company he founded may have a similar vision for future Apple notebooks.