Harvard Ph.D. Mathematician’s Financial Literacy Book; Math Is Fun and Key to Understanding Money and Interest

MIAMI, March 4, 2011 — If there is one word that sums up our economic woes, it is interest. There’s interest on credit card balances, student loans, car loans, home mortgages, corporate borrowings and most prominently, on state and national debt. But there is surprisingly little interest i…

Percona Launches Training on InnoDB/XtraDB Storage Engines for MySQL Databases

PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 24, 2009 — Percona, Inc. (http://www.percona.com/training), provider of pay-as-you-go consulting for the popular LAMP stack and other open-source software, announced today training workshops for InnoDB and XtraDB, which are among the most widely used storage eng…

IT Pros Discouraged by Poor Job-Hunting Results Can Improve Their Employment Prospects by Leveraging Transferable Skills

WESTPORT, Conn., March 4, 2009 — The recession is heightening competition for IT jobs, while exerting downward pressure on compensation. Many IT professionals are considering changing careers, but are understandably concerned about wasting the investment in their education and experience…

Information Technology Professionals Can Improve Their Employment Prospects by Leveraging Their Transferable Skills

WESTPORT, Conn., Feb. 10, 2009 — The recession is heightening competition for a dwindling number of IT jobs, while exerting downward pressure on compensation. Many IT professionals — both employed and unemployed — are considering changing careers, but are naturally concerned ab…

IT Pros Discouraged by Dismal Job-Hunting Results Should Find Much Brighter Employment Prospects in Alternative Fields

WESTPORT, Conn., Jan. 2, 2009 — The recession is heightening competition for a dwindling number of IT jobs, while exerting downward pressure on compensation. Many IT professionals — both employed and unemployed — are considering changing careers, but are naturally concerned abo…