Resources for Application Development Professionals

All the resources below are free and should be of value to you working in this field, but most are not maintained by Getronics.

• News Headlines
  • InfoWorld has that and more
  • IT industry news: Daily-updated headlines by category
  
  
• Technical Forums: Learn from your peers
  • Dr. Dobb's Journal - tools for software programmers
  • ZDNet - white papers, downloads and more
  • BrewAdvisor - gives a large list of forums for VB, Lotus, Foxpro, Access, SQL, etc., and check out their zones
  • Developer.com is part of EarthWeb's network of programmer sites
  • Experts Exchange gives instant answers in virtually every IT subject area with real-time technology experts and searchable white papers and webcasts (latter skew to Microsoft topics).
  • Programmers Heaven
  • ASPnet Forums from Mind.com
  • SAP Developer Network is a comprehensive content and collaboration hub launched Sep. 2003 that enables developers, partners, consultants and system administrators to share technical information, advice, code samples and tools across the SAP technical community
  • Software Development magazine
  • Sun's Java site (for Java programmers)
  
  
• Professional Associations
  • PASS / Professional Association for SQL Server
  • Software Contractors' Guild
  • Software Development Forum (SDForum) is geared to Silicon Valley
  
  
• Education & Certifications
  • ASP resource links
  • Cisco Certifications
  • Dell certifications
  • Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals - ICCP focuses on Systems Analysts, Computer Scientists, Computer Programmers, Database Administrators, Business Analysts, Network Administrators, Computer Software Engineers, Information Technology Managers, Chief Information/Technology Officers, Computer Security Analysts, and Telecommunications Analysts
  • jCert Initiative, Inc. is a non-profit consortium of Java-based enterprise-development software vendors, training providers and certification organizations including BEA Systems, CGS, IBM, ProsoftTraining, SkillSoft, Sun Microsystems, and Thomson Prometric geared to promoting open standards for certifying enterprise developers using Java technology (Sun itself offers certifications here)
  • Microsoft Training and Certification
  • Oracle Certifications
  • Also see the Training & Development section on this site for guidance on continuing education and earning certifications, including, including some of the courses geared to aspiring application developers available free to Getronics employees.

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