With any article whose premise is ensuring the safety of your programming career, it's tempting to try to hook your attention with fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the state of the economy. I could point at all those layoff statistics. Or I could frighten you by bringing up the spectre of your job going overseas.

As the global economy continues its slide, U.S. politicians have staked out their positions at the stimulus trough, stopping only long enough to blame the other party for the world's problems. Now, more than ever, we need to focus on sound policy, not savvy politics. President Obama ran on the promise of bipartisanship but has come up against the stiff reality of a deep Republican-Democrat divide.

Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. This week: wider use of the new notification system; more attention for maintenance the LTS releases; slideshows introducing Ubuntu during the installation process; bandwidth management.

If you set a resolution inappropriate for your monitor in the Screen Resolution GUI tool, you can reset it by running rm ~/.config/monitors.xml from a terminal.

DecorateTwitter.com recently published an ebook on how you can utilize Twitter at the best possible way. Twitter is a fast and rapidly growing Web 2.0 site which provides a great communication tool for everybody regardless whether you’re using it for personal use or for your business. Everybody these days are using it, including CEOs from the top companies in the world.

Windows cannot compete with cheaper, better, freer competition; TomTom revisited

After much discussion my CEO agreed to deploy Linux in our Content Department. Next, the issue on the table was which distribution to deploy.

We'll come right out and say this – Linux breaks. No matter how much we might like our chosen distro, there is no denying that things can go wrong. So here's our guide to dealing with some of the most common problems, and some advice on how to deal.