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Advice for a programming major who wants to telecommute Justin James shares career insights and tips for a TechRepublic member who majored in programming and is looking for a work-from-home job. Read more Resource of the day Best Practices for Implementing a Data Warehouse on Oracle Exadata Oracle offers three types of compression on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine; basic compression, OLTP compression (component of the Advanced Compression option) and Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression (EHCC). With OLTP compression, just like standard compression, Oracle compresses data by eliminating duplicate values in a database block. Read how Oracle Exadata Database Machine can achieve optimal data loading performance here. Poll: Have you used C/C++? Developer Justin James has never used C in his professional work and is curious to know if other developers use it in their careers. Read more Tips on cross browser Web testing Justin James discusses using tools such as Scout and Selenium for test UIs in different browsers. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   All bets off as Flex put out to pasture Adobe's Flex framework is to be guided via an open-source governance model, with Flex's current roadmap to be replaced by the as-yet-unformed governance committee. Read more Grade your job: IT programmer If you could assign a grade to your job, what would it be? Read more CSS3: New ways to process white space Ryan Boudreaux introduces the newest properties under discussion for the processing of white space in CSS3 and includes code examples to show how the values are interpreted. Read more Aussie opens up WebGL on iOS An Australian developer poked around in Apple's private iOS API collection and returned with a canvas that allows developers to take a sneak peak at WebGL running on iOS. Read more Microsoft updates Bing Webmaster Tools Microsoft Bing recently refreshed their Webmaster Tools after seeking feedback from the web master community. Have you tried them? Here are the major updates. Read more 10 small but impressive ways Mango improves the WP7 experience Mango's biggest changes have grabbed most of the headlines, but WP7 users will appreciate the small improvements, too. Read more What to expect in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Jack Wallen takes a look at what we can all expect from the next flavor of Android. Read more Geek Gifts 2011: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Check out Sonja Thompson's Geek Gift review and first impressions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Read more Featured multimedia   Google Developer Day: Sydney Sydney hosted a leg of Google's Developer Days after a three-year absence. View on site Today's recommended downloads Download IDC Marketscape for Desktop Virtualization 2011 Report SOA and Business Practices: Making the Connection IT Transformation Through Innovation Complimentary Whitepapers: Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Data Consolidation onto Private Clouds Geek Gifts 2011: Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson What personal demons drove Steve Jobs to make such an indelible mark on not just technology, but humanity? Those are the questions that journalist turned biographer Walter Isaacson attempts to answer. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! TechRepublic Australia Wrapper Web Designer The Enterprise Cloud Tablets in the Enterprise Google in the Enterprise App Builder 10 Things Geeky TechRepublic galleries New York Comic Con 2011: Costumes and cosplay BlizzCon 2011: Serious gamers unite Toronto Zombie Walk and undead wedding SteamCon III: Costumes of Steampunk enthusiasts Seattle hosts the very first GeekGirlCon

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