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The Next Decade Brings Growing Pains of Teen Years Cover Your Assets: Will the next ten years be perceived as the "lean teens" or "green teens" for data centers? ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010	5 Ways Virtualization Will Change in 2010 Virtually Speaking: Virtualization isn't the new kid on the block anymore, but big changes are in store in the new year. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010
HP Enlists Partners to Help Steal Sun's Customers Microsoft, Novell, and Red Hat join up with the hardware giant to ease customers' transition off Solaris. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010	VShell Aims to Harden Security With 3.6 Release After five beta releases, VanDyke Software's telnet server, VShell Server 3.6, got the gold stamp of approval. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010
Virtualization Adoption on the Decline Recent research reports show the rate of enterprises adopting virtualization is on the decline. Has the silver bullet misfired, or is something else happening here? ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010	10 OSes on the Move OS Roundup: SCO and NetWare face extinction; Ubuntu may or may not hit the big leagues. Who else will win or lose big in the coming decade? ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010
Opalis Finds New Home Microsoft makes a move to expand its datacenter management capabilities with the acquisition of the IT process automation firm. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010	Perl and the Flip-Flop Operator Tip of the Trade: The flip-flop operator in Perl is quite useful for comparing arguments, but it does have some surprising quirks. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010
Hyper-V Security and Authorization Manager, Keys to a Successful Config Are your Hyper-V virtual machines secure? Learn how to secure them using Authorization Manager. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010	Dell, the Other White Box Vendor No-name PC vendors fill the landscape from coast to coast serving many verticals, but Dell is ready to challenge them. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010
Even the Shoddiest Server Deployments Work -- On Paper Cover Your Assets: Plan carefully when making changes to your data center. What you detail on paper may not translate successfully to the actual rack. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010	Private Cloud Gaining Over Public Virtually Speaking: As cloud takes off, the private, not public, cloud is leading out of the gate. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010
IBM Rolls Out New System z Linux Servers Big Blue's latest offerings are designed for enterprise customers looking to consolidate and virtualize on Linux. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010	Why Open-Source Software Vendors Should Charge More OS Roundup: As Unix's market share declines, Windows is gaining seats faster than Linux. One theory is that many enterprise decision makers perceive a higher price tag as an indicator of higher quality. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010
More Special Variables in Perl: Outputs Last week we looked at special Perl variables for reading things in; this week we look at the other side -- variables that are useful when you want to write things out. ServerWatch ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010	NewsBone.com Suggest a feed to syndicate here, or check out what I'm doing over at freshtao. ~Created Sat Jul 31 12:27:35 2010

Measuring LAMP Competency?
An anonymous reader writes "Our company is getting ready to hire a number of programmers. While the majority of the prospective candidates do have good-looking resumes, we are looking to see if we can get some clear metrics in the assessment process. After a little research we have learned that there is a well-established PHP + MySQL training and certification process, and some of the candidates are already certified. There is also a candidate with a good portfolio, a lot of experience, and no certification. Most of the applicants also have some college/university science-related education. So our goal is to be able to somehow measure LAMP overall competency as well as basic computer science concepts such as BNF, data normalization, OOP, MVC, etc. How do Slashdot readers go about this kind of characterization?"