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The Employability Puzzle! How to launch into IT or any career
Yesterday I took part in a discussion with the instructors and administrators at a local technical college. The big question: How do we create curriculum that prepares our students for a job upon graduation? How do we make them employable? They are, as it turns out, not alone in asking this question. Yesterday I read, […]
Continue readingVideo: Is it What You Know or Who You Know? Both Are Needed
We’ve been cleaning up around here. The IT Career Toolkit website needed an overhaul. This morning I recorded a new podcast – look for it tomorrow – introducing some new materials and the TechXCited Seminar Series (watch for it). In the meantime, here is a short segment from a past speaking engagement. I was speaking […]
Continue readingWhich One of You Brought Down the Internet Last Friday
Some thoughts published on my personal/writing blog after last Friday’s DDoS attack. I address what the industry might do (and why they are not) and what home users should do (and are definitely not). http://www.matthewmoranonline.com/one-brought-down-internet/
Continue readingMicrosoft Access database that reads and extracts website data – file download
I wrote about this technology some time back at Pulse Infomatics. Using the Microsoft Internet Controls, the HTMLDocument object, and VBA, you can read and extract data from almost any website. This can be used to periodically look for changes on a website or pull data for use into your own analysis tool. We’ve had […]
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