This article originally appeared in Canadian Developer Connection.
The first installment of our Ignite Your Career webcast series starts today at noon Eastern time. Today’s topic is Industry Insights and Trends – here’s the abstract:
The nature of technology is one of continual change; a fact of life for professionals in the ICT industry. As a result, you need to be on top of what is happening in the industry in order to position yourself and your organization to benefit from these trends. This panel discussion will arm you with the information you need from experts in the ICT industry in order to stay on top of your game.
The session will be hosted by Joel Semeniuk, Jeff Kempiners and Jay Payette.
Ignite Your Career is about your career and “skills portfolio”. It’s not specific to any kind of technology or vendor, so it’s useful no matter what kind of development you do. Best of all, registration is free – all you have to do is sign up with your Windows Live ID. It’ll take place every Tuesday starting today and for the next five weeks, with a new topic hosted by different experts every week.
To find out more about this series, check out the Ignite Your Career site.
Pictured on the right is a photo I took in New York City almost nine years ago to the day. While taking an elevator in the hotel where I was staying, I noticed a little indicator above the rows of buttons for floors – a circular bit of plastic with the words HELP IS ON THE WAY inscribed. Presumably, if there was some kind of failure and passengers were trapped in the elevator, someone in a control room would flip a switch and that little “help is on the way” indicator would light up to let them know that someone knew of their predicament and was doing something about it. I couldn’t resist taking a photo of it, knowing that I’d use it someday.