January 2012
7 posts
Moved
I’ve moved my blog to http://jnorthrop.me. I’ll leave this blog up, but I won’t update it any longer.
Salary Negotiations, Don't be Tough, be Honest
I read a blog post the other day about how to properly negotiate a salary. It received a lot attention on Hacker News and generated a heated discussion. Obviously this is important to many of us — me included. However, I see things differently than Patrick. I’ve liked almost all of my bosses (5 to date), and enjoyed my past places of employment. I’ve generally felt fairly...
EU Data Protection Reforms Are a Big Deal
As expected The European Commission released two principal documents outlining proposed reforms of the EU’s 1995 data protection rules. And as promised last week I will do my best to put it into context for IT professionals. First off, from all accounts, It appears to be relatively close to what was leaked in November so there are no big surprises in it. However, that doesn’t mean that...
Google, Good To Know
Did you catch Google’s full page ads in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today as well as other papers around the country this week? If privacy isn’t your business then you may have just passed them over, but for those of us who make a living either convincing customer’s to given us their data or struggle to keep those within the company who want to mine that same...
See, privacy is a big deal
Anyone still think they can keep their head in the sand over privacy issues? Think again. Check out this post by 37Signals. Here’s the meat of it.
Taylor’s post about our growth in 2011 included a bunch of numbers showing how the pistons inside the 37signals engine are pounding faster, but it all got swept away by what seemed like an innocent side-note: The 100 millionth file was called ...
Privacy Regulations Are a Comin'
At the moment privacy is a hot topic. Most of the chatter on the internet and in the media can be characterized as “Company X is abusing the trust (or taking advantage) of their customers.” I’m not going to debate that side of the issue but there is another side and it isn’t getting much coverage. What’s missing from all the hoopla is the coverage of the impending...
What IT Professionals Need to Know About Privacy
I’ve just learned that I’ll be presenting at SecureWorld in Boston on March 23rd. To follow is the abstract I submitted for the call for papers. Now all I have to do is put together the presentation… I know many people who read this blog are a good target for this type of topic. Feel free to send ideas, anecdotes, etc. that might help me focus the presentation. As a 20-year IT veteran...
