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Programming Modern Social Web Experiences for Your Users

November 30, 2011

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Or… Building the next Facebook, Twitter, YouTube This tutorial was a popular ‘capstone’ lesson from my CSCI 3000 Web Programming course in Fall 2011, and I thought I’d share it as a post. It’s heavily programmer-focused, but it has all the source files to enable just about anyone with a web site to engage users […]

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What’s New in IT for Fall 2011

August 30, 2011

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North Georgia College & State University (where I work as CIO and as an Associate Professor of Computer Science) has seen a lot of growth and change in the past few years. We’re coming up on completion of over $260 Million in construction and renovations, we’ve added six new buildings in the past three years, […]

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Science, tech jobs pay more, lead in growth

July 15, 2011

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Jobs in science, viagra technology, check engineering and math (STEM) fields pay an average of 26% more than other occupations and grew three times faster the past decade, according to a Commerce Department study released yesterday and reported by USA Today. From 2000 to 2010, STEM jobs grew at three times the rate of other […]

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