8 Ways to Boost Your Career in 2008

Within the technology industry, companies are looking for IT workers who possess highly-developed technical know-how, in addition to more general business knowledge and enhanced analytical skills. In 2008, recruiters are advising IT workers to take a number of proactive steps in order to update their skills and experiences to help employers fill these needs. In particular, IT workers should become more aware of trends within their respective industries, work to develop intangible skills and focus on new responsibilities that may be far removed from IT.

Security issues, especially those related to business continuity and disaster-recovery planning, are permeating all levels of the organization. As a result, it is important for IT workers to understand how business processes, technical requirements and security needs intersect. Secondly, IT workers need to learn how to re-engineer business processes and workflow, not just technical processes. The conventional wisdom is that IT is somehow responsible for keeping everything running and developing new systems, and this now applies to business processes.

Understanding how analytics can be used to guide business decisions is another way to boost your career. For example, organizations collect and analyze detailed data on their customers and then rely on IT staff members to analyze those findings. You can also make yourself more valuable by becoming more versatile, working with teams of workers from diverse departments and multidisciplinary teams, and becoming more adept at using data to evaluate performance. At the end of the day, you must learn to manage your own career, evaluate your skills and fill in what’s missing through certification, education and on-the-job experience.

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The Rise of Parallelism (and Other Computing Challenges)

International Science Grid This Week (12/12/07) El Baz, Didier Parallelism is no longer restricted to high-performance or high-speed computing, as it is used in PCs, cellular phones, and numerous other electronic devices, writes Didier El Baz, head of the Distributed Computing and Asynchronism team, LAAS-CNRS. El Baz says the arrival of grid computing and parallelism have raised numerous questions in computer science and numerical computing. The combination of parallel and distributed computing could potentially change the nature of computer science and numerical computing. To ensure efficient use of new parallel and distributed architectures, new concepts on communication, synchronization, fault tolerance, and auto-organization are needed and must be widely accepted. Manufacturers agree that future supercomputers will have massively parallel architectures that will need to be fault tolerant and well suited to dynamicity, which will require some type of auto-organization as controlling these large systems efficiently will not be possible entirely from the outside. Parallel and distributed algorithms will also have to be more adapt at coping with the asynchronous nature of communication networks and the faults in the system. These problems are attracting more and more attention, particularly from scientists working on communication libraries, and will need to be addressed to find solutions and drive the evolution of computing.

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Would U like to completely free from eyeglasses ?

"Wow"; I can hear this wows from the people who suffer with their eye glasses when they read the question posted above.Yes ,surely there are posibilities to get off from suffering eye glasses.

In my article I do not want to recommend any treatment to take away the need for glasses or contacts. But I want to say some thing about LASIK with my friend's experience.

Recently my friend had a refractive surgery at Nawaloko Hospital. As usual she also had the idea that the LASIK is just a laser treatment. But before the day she had the operation, she understood there are three treatments under this refractive surgery depends on the patients corneal thickness and vision correction.

Yes ,there are three major refractive surgeries done in Sri Lanka.Those are LASIK and others are alternative to LASIK, they are LASEK and PRK.

What is LASIK?

LASIK is an elective laser eye surgery that reshapes the front surface of the eye (the cornea) to improve vision. It is the most popular vision correction procedure performed in the United States and worldwide. LASIK can correct a wide range of nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia) and astigmatism.

LASIK eye surgery is a two-step procedure:


What is LASEK?

LASEK (or laser epithelial keratomileusis) is another laser vision correction procedure for patients whose corneas are too thin for LASIK. LASEK resembles PRK in that the surgeon doesn't create a LASIK-style flap in the first step of the procedure. But instead of removing the outer layer of corneal cells (the epithelium) completely, the LASEK surgeon creates an epithelial flap and replaces it after the excimer laser treatment is completed.

LASEK offers results that are similar to those achieved by LASIK, but (like PRK) it involves more post-operative discomfort and longer healing times.

What is PRK?

PRK (or photorefractive keratectomy) is the second most popular laser vision correction procedure. Like LASIK, PRK uses an excimer laser to reshape the cornea. But in PRK, the surgeon doesn't first create a corneal flap. Instead, the thin outer layer of corneal cells (the epithelium) is removed and the laser treatment is applied to the underlying corneal tissue (the stroma). After the laser treatment, the cornea is covered with a bandage contact lens. Within days, the removed epithelium grows back and the bandage contact lens is removed.

PRK offers results that are similar to those achieved by LASIK, but it involves more post-operative discomfort and longer healing times. PRK is often recommended for patients whose corneas are too thin for LASIK.


Here I do not want to say whether these surgeries are good or bad,but the person want to have these surgeries has to know the procedures , the recovery period and the good and bad side of each surgeries is better for his future.

My friend got LASEK surgery one week before and now she is in the recovery period.
There are so many articles available in the Internet.
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