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I recently started exploring online resources that my company provides for free to their employees.  I was pleasantly surprised to see all my favorite O'Reilly books on SafariBooksOnline, but also amazed at how much new technology has been developed over the last few years.  Areas that I thought I was very familiar with have suddenly shifted to include new tools, and new ways of doing things with cloud, big data, automation, and all kinds of new Apache products. Check to see if your company provides free subscriptions, and then have a look at some of these resources: Paid Learning Sites http://www.safaribooksonline.com -- Huge selection of technical books http://www.pluralsight.com -- High Quality, from overview to advanced topics for programmers http://www.lynda.com -- High Quality, some topics are not very advanced, but courses are very well done When discussing career development ideas with my colleagues, I usually recommend training courses, or books, o...

Introduction to Online Security, Internet Privacy, Anonymous browsing.   As an honest hard-working citizen, you may think you have nothing to hide, but at the same time you may be annoyed with intrusive advertizing, or you may be concerned with the ability of hackers to see your bank accounts, or for governments, foreign or domestic to watch what you do online. Advertising Some people are surprised to see ads shortly after visiting a website.  For example, suppose you want to check the price of flights to Seattle, just out of curiosity to compare prices to different cities, but with no intention of ever going there.  Then, you notice over the next few days, that there all kinds of advertisements in your browser for flights, or hotels in Seattle.  Then you wonder how did those advertisers get the crazy idea that I might be interested in going to Seattle?  Or why do I keep seeing ads for something in which I have no interest?  That is tracking te...