Today there are dozens of computer security certifications available. We’ll cover some of the more popular ones, some obscure ones, and their costs and differences.

The value of certifications are always a debatable subject among IT professionals. Value aside, the cost prohibitive nature of certifications often keeps people from even trying to acquire them. Other certifications may require outrageous fees and travel to faraway locations, but the Linux Professional Institute’s LPIC-1 exam cost only $160, and the exam can be [...]

ClearSaleing announced today the launch of the ClearSaleing Attribution Management Professional (CAMP) Certification Program. ClearSaleing’s CAMP Certification will be available through instructor-led webinars, as well as individualized sessions. See the curriculum below.

Acquia just launched a new Social Publishing for Open Government program to help U.S. federal agencies meet the government’s Open Government Directive (OGD).  The program provides government agencies with education and implementation services for using Drupal in general and to address OGD.  According to Acquia, services offered by the program include:

Stephen J. Bigelow, of SearchWinIT.com has presented a very interesting question, and one which paints a distinct portrait of the current climate in the IT market – ‘Does certification really matter in IT?‘ When first absorbing the question, the answer should seem obvious; of course certification is important. In just about every field that requires [...]

Linux is an OS that conjures up images of computer nerds hunched over their keyboards in the quest for digital divinity while following the doctrine of open source and free software for all. Such evangelistic ideals and hallowed images have often paved the way for computer engineering students to follow certifications such as the Microsoft [...]

I received a press release announcing that REvolution Computing, a provider of software and support for the open source “R” statistical programming language had appointed R co-creator, Robert Gentleman, to its board of directors. The press release was a great impetus for me to look at R again. For background about R, Ashlee Vance wrote:

A Garbage Collector must do two things:- 1.Detect garbage objects2.Deallocate the memory of garbage objects and make it available for the program. There are four approaches that a garbage collector may adopt to detect the garbage objects.