The Associated Press: World Bank warns tidal flood may hit Jakarta

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMYQo4jtRo-4pqPMgknbqexEUGogD90VCBCG1
World Bank warns tidal flood may hit Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The World Bank warned Thursday that an exceptionally high tide could inundate the Indonesian capital next week, forcing thousands of people to flee homes and cutting off the highway to the international airport.

The situation — exacerbated by global warming and the fact that Jakarta is sinking up to 2 inches a year — could mean flooding will exceed last November's roof-high levels in the hardest-hit areas, said Hongjoo Hahm, the bank's infrastructure expert.

"This is just the beginning," he said, as he pointed to homes reaching a mile inland that will likely be affected Tuesday and Wednesday by the 18-year semiannual tide cycle. "It's getting worse and worse."

Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation, is one of the world's largest contributors of carbon dioxide emissions, thanks to the rapid pace of deforestation. But experts say the country is also at risk of becoming one of the biggest victims of climate change.

Rising sea waters especially pose a threat to coastal cities like Jakarta, which has sunk at least 7 feet in the last three decades because of excessive ground water extraction, said Hahm.

Eventually, the government should consider building a Dutch-styled dike to protect the Jakarta Bay, he said, "but that will cost billions of U.S. dollars."

The 18-year high tide cycles occur when the sun and moon are in direct alignment and making their closest approach to the Earth. Other factors, such as global warming or El Nino and La Nina, have made the sea swells even larger in recent years, Hahm said.

Beredar Isu Jakarta Rusuh 23 Mei

http://www.jaknews.com/2008/pol/mei/22052008-1430jak05.htm
JAKNEWS.COM--Isu akan terjadinya kerusuhan di Jakarta tanggal 23 Mei ini beredar di sejumlah mailing-list (milis) dalam dua hari terakhir ini.
Kamis (22/5), di Jakarta, menerima telepon dari sejumlah pembaca yang menanyakan kebenaran isu tersebut. "Saya mendapat kiriman email mengenai kemungkinan terjadinya kerusuhan di Jakarta tanggal 23 Mei ini," ungkap Bernas, seorang pegawai bank swasta.

Isi dari email tersebut adalah "Kami dari sebuah komunitas kepemudaan di Jakarta, ingin memberitahukan kepada teman-teman sekalian, tolong disebar luaskan kepada sanak saudara, teman dan rekan sekalian bahwa kemungkinan tanggal 23 Mei 2008 akan terjadi demo besar2an yang ditunggangi oleh kepentingan politik dan lain2. Ketakutan kami adalah ter ulangnya kembali peristiwa mei 1998, karena menurut teman2 kami se komunitas beberapa sopir taksi sudah memberikan sinyalment adanya kerusuhan kembali tanggal 23 mei tersebut seiring dengan rencana pemerintah menaikkan BBM. Kami himbau agar kita semua bersiap dan berdoa agar kerusuhan Mei 1998 tidak terulang kembali...Isi dari pemberitahuan ini bukanlah hasutan tapi agar kita semua bersiap akan terulangnya peristiwa mei 1998 agar tidak menimbulkan korban, jadi dengan sangat tolong sebarkan pengumuman ini"

Namun, dalam email tersebut tidak dicantumkan dari komunitas kepemudaan mana yang menyebarkan informarsi meresahkan ini. "Mudah-mudahan polisi segera mengungkap siapa pengirim email ini dan sekaligus memberiakn rasa aman kepada warga," kata Bernas.

BBM Mau Naik, Purnomo Dipanggil DPR

http://www.jaknews.com/2008/ekbis/mei/22052008-1000jak04.htm
JAKNEWS.COM---Komisi VII DPR, Kamis (22/5), melakukan rapat kerja dengan Menteri ESDM Purnomo Yusgiantoro terkait rencana kenaikan harga bahan bakar minyak (BBM). Sikap anggota Komisi VII terbelah mengenai perlu atau tidaknya pemerintah mengambil langkah menaikkan harga bahan bakar minyak (BBM) bersubsidi. "Raker dengan Menteri ESDM kali ini akan ramai.

Partai pendukung pemerintah seperti Partai Golkar dan Partai Demokrat pasti akan mendukung kenaikan, sementara kami (PDIP) akan menolak," kata Wakil Ketua Komisi VII DPR Sonny Keraf di Jakarta seperti dilansir Antara.

Sebelumnya, rapat pimpinan DPR dan fraksi sepakat membatalkan agenda rapat konsultasi membahas kenaikan harga BBM dengan Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Rapat kemudian menyerahkan kepada masing-masing fraksi dan komisi DPR menyikapi rencana pemerintah menaikkan harga BBM.

Menurut Sonny, PDIP tetap menolak rencana pemerintah menaikkan harga BBM. Alasannya, pemerintah masih memiliki opsi lain guna mengurangi kenaikan subsidi akibat tingginya harga minyak dunia. Opsi lain tersebut antara lain meningkatkan produksi minyak, menekan biaya operasi yang dikembalikan negara (cost recovery), diversifikasi energi dan belum optimalnya pemanfataan bahan bakar nabati. "Program penghematan energi yang sudah dijanjikan sejak tiga tahun lalu juga belum terlihat," katanya.

Dalam raker, Purnomo didampingi antara lain Kepala Badan Pelaksana Hulu Minyak dan Gas Bumi (BP Migas) R Priyono, Kepala Badan Kebijakan Fiskal Depkeu Anggito Abimanyu, serta pejabat Bappenas dan Depsos.

Hari Rabu (21/5) kemarin, Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani memastikan pemerintah akan menaikkan harga BBM bersubsidi rata-rata 28,7 persen. Presiden Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono akan mengumumkan kenaikan harga BBM tersebut, Jumat (23/5) besok.

Sesuai dengan skenario Depkeu, dengan kenaikan rata-rata 28,7 persen, maka harga premium menjadi Rp 6.000 per liter, solar menjadi Rp 5.500 dan minyak tanah menjadi Rp 2.500 per liter.

Another earth quake at Indonesia

http://www.detiknews.com/indexfr.php?url=http://www.detiknews.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2008/bulan/05/tgl/19/time/214549/idnews/941913/idkanal/10

http://cn.yahoo.com/

http://news.cn.yahoo.com/08-05-/1037/2j51n.html
中新网5月19日电 据国家地震台网测定,北京时间2008年5月19日14时06分,在青川县(北纬32.5度,东经105.3度)发生5.4级余震。

So sad... Another 200+ in danger

WiMAX and the city

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2008/5/15/technology/1209642&sec=technology
PETALING JAYA: Internet surfers will have to put up with the 512Kbps maximum speed of the KL Wireless Metropolitan Project now until most of the 3,500 designated hotspots are active.

Packet One Networks Sdn Bhd (P1), one of the four WiMAX ­licensees charged with rolling out wireless broadband service in the country, expects the wait to be about two years.

Currently, 200 hotspots have been activated and most of these are in the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) area.

P1 chief executive officer Michael Lai said another 1,300 hotpots in the city would be added by year-end, and the remainder by 2010.

“There will be options to upgrade the speed in the future and in the meantime it’s a free service,” he told In.Tech early this week.

Theoretically, WiMAX speeds can hit 70Mbps.

Connectivity fees will only be charged from 2010, said Lai.

512Kbps (kilobytes per second) is slow when compared to fixed-line broadband speeds offered by TM Net, which go as high as 4Mbps (megabits per second) now. But it is better than dial-up speeds which are typically 56Kbps — the service used by most Malaysians at this time.

Another benefit of wireless broadband is that Internet surfers can roam the city and remain connected.

Lai said P1 has also had to tweak its WiMAX 2.3GHz infrastructure so that it can be used by devices built for WiFi access. WiFi and WiMAX are different technologies that work the same way; with WiMAX having the greater range.

“This has to be done because there are currently no WiMAX-enabled devices available for consumers,” he said. “These devices will likely start showing up in the market in the latter part of the year.”

It will also take some time for the devices to gain critical mass among Internet users in the country, enough to make it worthwhile for P1 to switch back to a fully WiMAX network.

The KL Wireless Metropolitan Project was launched on Monday by Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafique at KL City Hall.

Internet users who want to start using the service will need to first register at www.wirelesskl.com.

Accountant Farina Mohamed Jamal, 26, believes she will enjoy this new connectivity option. “Free Internet access even at 512Kbps is great, especially when you can now surf from anywhere in the city,” she said.

A helpdesk consultant, Azri Samad, 32, was also pleased with the new service but wonders if 512Kbps is going to be enough since the service will likely attract a lot of interest.

“It is free surfing but the ­bandwidth is going to be shared by tens of thousands of Internet users in the city,” he said.

Both hoped that the connectivity fee, when introduced, would be reasonable if not downright ­affordable.

Terror via SMS in Indonesia; Ring in Red — 3GWeek

http://3gweek.net/2008/05/16/terror-via-sms-in-indonesia-ring-in-red/
Is this truly exist?

About a couple of days ago, Indonesia’s cellphone users (later including Brunei) were shocked by such a terror via SMS. This terror, which later popular as “SMS Merah” or “Red SMS” or “Ring in Red” (in english) has surprisingly causing a physical attack that harmed its recipients. One of them is a man from West Sumatera, Indonesia which suddenly be unconscious after read this SMS via his mobile phone.

A group of people believe that this SMS was being sent by such black-magic wizard who just want to test his/her ability by using SMS as a medium. However, Indonesian police officer and most Indonesian, of course denied such mystical reason like this. They still considered this case as an issue in body health.

Here is the content of Ring in Red after being translated into english:

“To all beloved friends. If you receive a call with long numbers, such as +62852731520946, in red, do not pick it up, as there is currently a group of Indonesian students, who are also black magic practitioners, testing their power via handphones. Whoever answers the call will start to foam in the mouth and die shortly afterwards. In Indonesia, there are already nine deaths, and last night, two more died in Puchong. These incidents happened. Please forward this message…”)

This message was from Bruneian. In Indonesia, the number was headed by 0866 atau 066 instead of +62852731520946.

BINA NUSANTARA :: Bee-Watch

http://www.binus-access.com/bee-watch/index.php?tv=trans
Thomas Cup and Uber Cup (video streaming)

土豆网 - 视频 - 播客 - 每个人都是生活的导演

http://www.tudou.com/
For those who are bored overseas
Enjoy the movie

Tempat Wisata Ancol - Jakarta Utara

Tempat ini macam gabungan pantai Port Dickson and Sunway Lagoon.
Ada tempat untuk main rollor coaster, mobil kabel, pantai, live band, makan-makan, naik perahu, kayak, berenang dan lain lain lagi.
Ticket kemasukan adalah rp 12,000 seorang
Mobil akan dibayar juga rp 12,000

Bisa nampak banyak couple berjalan, duduk, berpeluk di tempat ini menjadikan kita agak sunyi sepi.
Ramai yang datang bersama keluarga berkelah di tepi pantai.

Happy Mother's Day!

Can you do me a favour?
Can you THANKS your mom today for me?
Without her, I wont be able to meet a great person like YOU!
Happy Mother's Day to your Mummy!

喵喵 - Ancol Beach

特别钟爱这只猫
因为很像我家以前那只

它是我小时候
从外婆家带回来的
因为家里开杂货店
很多老鼠
所以它被训练为捉老鼠的好手
最高一天可以捉到三只
省了公公设陷阱的时间和麻烦

它在十三岁时，离我而去了。。。

Sunset at Ancol, Jakarta Utara

http://www.ancol.co.id/

Jaga Parkir (Suzuki VS Toyota)

Nasihat teman-teman dari Jakarta
Jangan parkir kedua-dua mobil ini bersebelah...
Kalau tidak, kereta Toyota akan hilang ?!

Kenapa dong???

ML (Mau Lagi)

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Other

今天在电视节目介绍的一套戏



Wisnu, mahasiswa tampan sinematografi namun belum pernah pacaran, sedang menyelesaikan tugas akhir berupa film dokumenter tentang pergaulan bebas di kalangan mahasiswa

Tinggal serumah dengan Mario dan Askar yang penuh dengan kisah asmara yang bebas, menjadi bahan film dokumenter Wisnu. Lama-kelamaan Wisnu jengah dengan kehidupan sex bebas teman-temannya. Sementara Mario sangat khawatir dengan Wisnu yang dingin dengan wanita. Akhirnya, Mario dan Wisnu taruhan membuktikan kalau Wisnu tidak frigid. Dalam waktu satu bulan, Wisnu harus dapat pacar dan ML. Wisnu menerima tantangan itu dengan syarat Mario tidak ML dengan pacarnya Manda selama satu bulan

Banyak peristiwa tak terduga terjadi, termasuk kehamilan Manda. Benarkah Wisnu frigid? Akankah Mario mempertanggungjawabkan perbuatannya? Bagaimana pula kisah cinta Askar? Penuhi rasa penasaran dari kisah di atas dalam ML (Mau Lagi...?)

过马路

在雅加达
人多，车多，摩托车多，ｍｉｃｒｏｌｅｔ＊多，ｂａｊａｉ＊＊多
加上没有人理会交通规则
还有交通警察都不做工

要过马路
要有一种精神
一种“置之死地而后生“的精神

还好现在有车了
不用走路去工作

＊ｍｉｃｒｏｌｅｔ　＝（载客的ｖａｎ仔）
＊＊ｂａｊａｉ　＝（泰国的嘟嘟车）

WordWeb: Free English thesaurus dictionary download

http://wordweb.info/free/
WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words from in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia

浪费了还是值得的？

来到雅加达后
忍了两个礼拜。。。
终于去了那个地方
吃牛肉骨汤的地方

之前所做的gym会不会就这样浪费掉
还是
之前的努力是为今天吃的牛肉汤？

















为了防止水灾，洪水发生，照片只放吃完的牛肉骨，很大支吧？马币12

Wanted: 10 IT Skills Employers Need Today (Global Knowledge)

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Other

Wanted: 10 IT Skills Employers Need Today

Technologies such as wireless and Web 2.0 demand new skills, while network and security know-how never seem to go out of style

By Denise Dubie , Network World , 04/17/2008

Technology pros looking to find new work or secure their current jobs should get schooled on wireless, Web 2.0 and virtualization while also boning up on business basics.

"IT professionals with the right technical skill set plus a foundational understanding of the business they work in will stand a much better chance in today's market," says Neill Hopkins, vice president of skills development at the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA).

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Business initiatives such as enterprise mobility, data center consolidation and unified communications are driving demand for expertise in new technology areas and reinforcing the importance of mastering the fundamentals such as networking and security, industry watchers say.

"Web 2.0, .Net, Java, wireless -- skills in technologies that enable end users to engage and communicate with each other -- are hot," says Rich Milgram, CEO of online job portal Beyond.com. "At the same time network and security skills are becoming more and more important, especially as companies expose more and more of their networks and data to the world."

Here we examine (in no particular order) the current most-sought-after skills and those destined to be in demand going forward.
1. Wireless

Because end users expect to be able to work from anywhere anytime, skills in wireless and mobility are being pushed to the top of many hiring managers' must-have lists.

"Now you need to be able to plan and troubleshoot radio interference and access point placement. Everyone wants to work from anywhere," says Bruce Meyer, director of network services at ProMedica Healthcare in Toledo, Ohio. "Standards will continue to evolve rapidly as everyone chases the Holy Grail of a wirelike experience. I'm not just looking for wireless skills; I'm looking for the ability to rapidly learn new things."

According to CompTIA, wireless skills in many areas -- 802.11, WiMAX and broadband -- will only become more appealing to companies in the next five years.

John Estes, vice president of strategic alliances at Robert Half Technology, adds that mobility goes beyond knowing wireless technologies. It also requires knowing about each device end users might start using to tap the network. "End users have mini multimedia computers in their hands now. Someone is going to have to be involved in decisions around which devices best suit the environment and application needs," Estes says.
2. Virtualization

No longer just a tool for systems administrators to tinker with in testing environments, virtualization technology is the main component behind data center consolidation and disaster recovery initiatives.

"Virtualization is a hot technology area, which means managers are looking for people with some savvy there," says Steve Clifford, field recruiting director at staffing agency TAC Worldwide. "Many companies have a lot of redundant servers, and they are trying to maximize resources and utilization on every server on every site."

And while server virtualization is the current hot technology, industry watchers expect storage, network and desktop virtualization to continue to drive demand for expertise in this technology area. EMA Research Director Andi Mann says desktop virtualization will show the strongest growth of any virtualization technology during the next one to two years.
3. Security
Security as a must-have skill is a no-brainer.

A CompTIA skills survey released in February had security listed as the No. 1 skill among three-quarters of the 3,578 IT hiring managers polled. Foote Partners reports that security skills accounted for 17% of base pay in the fourth quarter of 2007, and pay for network security management skills increased by more than 27% in 2007.

But going forward, IT professionals will need to be able to incorporate their security savvy into network, wireless, application, operating system and other IT areas to best compete.

"Firewall, data leak, compliance -- you name it and it's in demand for security," says CompTIA's Hopkins. "In the networking field, you need to also be an expert at security, but going forward skills around how to train staff and employees to be security-aware will have to be developed."
4. Networking

Networking expertise, which fell out of favor after the dot-com bust, is now back in demand and second only to security in terms of needed skills among the IT managers surveyed by CompTIA.

"Networking and infrastructure skills are back. Companies are not getting rid of data and they are doing more transactions online. With the growth and complexity of networks, there is a push for skills to design and manage such large-scale environments," says Beyond.com's Milgram.

Martin Webb, manager of data network operations for the Ministry of Labour and Citizens' Services in the province of British Columbia, says he is looking for people with practical experience in large enterprise IP-based networks, "both in terms of implementing services as well as operational support."

"Experience in wide-area networking is hard to come by, particularly as it applies to traditional carrier networking technologies such as T-1, frame relay, ISDN and multiplexing," Webb explains. "Today's technical staff also need to have basic business analysis skills with an understanding of financial management."

Brian Jones, manager of network engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Tech's Communications Network Services unit in Blacksburg, says he is always on the lookout for "field personnel who are well-organized. This means people who are experienced in installing networks, including everything from assembling racks to installing fiber panels, cross connect fields, cable management, and various network chassis and equipment." Other networking skills he says are must-haves include proficiency in cable and fiber termination and splicing as well as experience installing and configuring edge switches.

"These skills are hard to find and keep," Jones says.

For John Tuman, director of network services at WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh, N.C., finding VoIP skills is a challenge. "There is a lot of talent available with the traditional PBX, far less that have practical VoIP experience," he says.

Virginia Tech's Jones agrees. He says expertise in VoIP will only be more in demand as time goes on.

"VoIP, IPv6, and other emerging technologies will be driven by new applications and user requirements. IT staffers as always will have to learn these new things while maintaining the older technologies and services," Jones says.
5. Application delivery

Often as networks become more complex and sophisticated, they also get distributed over various remote locations and branch offices -- which Gartner says is driving the need for expertise in the area of application delivery.

Application delivery networks, according to Gartner, are required if companies want to deploy modern browser-based applications and emerging Web services applications. This network overlay responsible for application delivery will demand skills that cross storage, security, network and application development disciplines. Knowledge of application optimization techniques such as protocol offload, caching, application firewalls and others would be required of application delivery experts on staff.

"IT departments that add these positions will see smoother application development and deployment, increased user satisfaction and lower costs," says Joe Skorupa, research vice president at Gartner.
6. Web 2.0

Companies looking to implement Web 2.0 technologies want to see IT professionals with skills in areas such as AJAX, .Net and XML. These technologies require updated application development skills because they provide a more interactive experience, which could cause bandwidth or performance issues if not executed properly.

"For application development tools, AJAX, .Net, WebSphere and others have replaced and are replacing all the early-generation stuff like CGI, Visual Interdev and HTML/DHTML," says David Foote, CEO and chief research officer at Foote Partners.
7. IT business analysis

Being able to gauge the business relevance of technology decisions is critical for all high-tech hires, industry watchers and IT managers agree.

Arun DeSouza, a director of strategic planning and security at Inergy Automotive Systems in Troy, Mich., says skills around managing IT with finance in mind are in demand at his company.

"Ultimately, all technology investments and operational expenditures are about enabling the business and adding to the bottom line," he says. "IT managers need to be able to help align with the business, manage the financial portfolio and articulate the benefits in a language that the business can understand."

IT managers expect their employees not only to have a comprehensive understanding of the business they support but also to keep that knowledge current.

"The more senior a technical staffer gets, the more business aware they need to be," says John Turner, director of networks and systems at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.
8. Database management

Database management skills are growing in importance, according to several industry sources.

Robert Half Technology found database management to be considered an in-demand skill among 66% of 1,400 CIOs it polled. Foote Partners reported that median pay for database skills increased by 10% over the last two years, with Oracle database skills specifically seeing a 24% spike in pay over the previous 12 months.

"Simply speaking, it is cheaper now to store data so more companies are keeping more data on large-scale disk drives, because in the online world content is king," Beyond.com's Milgram says. "The more content you have the bigger you are, and back-end SQL, MySQL and Oracle skills are in demand to ensure companies are successful at such large-scale data management."
9. Business intelligence/data mining

In a similar vein as data management, business intelligence and data mining skills are growing in importance to enterprise companies as analyzing the data stored can directly impact a business' bottom line.

"Customers have spent so much money on gathering their data and putting it in data warehouses that they are now looking for ways to generate revenue from the data or from the knowledge contained within it," says TAC Worldwide's Clifford. "It's important that IT professionals have these skills -- one part business intelligence and one part data mining -- but also that they can apply them in such a way that is suitable to their business.

According to Foote Partners, pay for business intelligence grew by more than 22% in 2007.
10. The X factor

The trend is for IT professionals to emerge from being specialists in one technology area to being team members with broad knowledge of the environment. As networks and systems grow more sophisticated and intertwined with each other and the business, IT staff is expected to be well-versed in many areas and able to apply that know-how to the business at hand.

"I am seeing a need for IT staff to have a more holistic view when designing, integrating and troubleshooting. In the past, skill sets could be quite focused because there were better-defined lines of demarcation between systems; the trend continues to move to more interdependent and intertwined systems," says WakeMed Health & Hospitals' Tuman. "Now we need folks to understand how multiple systems interoperate, and when troubleshooting, have the ability to associate symptoms that surface in other areas back to the source."

Hiring Hiring Hiring

Anyone interested, please PM me.

街边烧卖

惨了，今天又破戒了！
第三次吃雅加达街边的食物
第一次是　ｓｏｔｏ　ｔａｎｇｋａｒ
第二次是　ｔａｈｕ　ｔｅｍｐｅ
第三次。。。是烧卖！

于与工作的关系
耽误了午餐时间
三点多，很多餐馆都午休去了
回到公司附近，看到很多人蹲在路边
就走过去看看
看有什么好料吃






















卖的就是一窝的烧卖（不懂什么肉做的，应该是牛肉）
来了一碟ｃａｍｐｕｒ的，ｒｐ　５０００（ＲＭ　２）
三粒烧卖
一粒蒸马铃薯
一粒小蒸包菜
一块白豆腐
淋上带有花生的浆汁
加上辣椒，酸干，甜酱油
味道还不错，有点像印度人的rojak






















地上的空瓶是用来装浆料的，他的生意还不错的。。。






















order 后，大家就蹲在路边吃。。。

Asian Wok - http://www.asianwok.com/

最近都在积极减肥
没像上次那样
到处去找新奇的食物

刚好今天要远出去开会
就找个借口大吃一番（回去后在gym room 呆了一个钟，消耗 300卡路里）

在Ｐｌａｚａ　Ｇａｊａｈ　Ｍａｄａ　低楼看到一样很久没吃的食物　－ＢＢＱ　鸡
叫了一碟Ｎａｓｉ　Ｐａｎｇｇａｎｇ　Ｋｏｍｂｉｎａｓｉ　（ＲＰ　２９９９９ = RM 12）
六片烧鸭 +　四片败斩鸡　＋　六块ＢＢＱ鸡　＋几条蔬菜　＋　汤
反正开了大戒，就要了油饭（Ｎａｓｉ　Ｈａｉｎａｎ

















虽然这BBQ 鸡不比Serdang 的好吃
在这里可以找到这样的水准
算是很不错的了。。。

8 Hottest Skills for '08

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Other

8 Hottest Skills for '08

"There is a distinct shortage of certain IT [skills], and that shortage seems to be growing," says Neill Hopkins, vice president of skills development at The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

Although the talent shortage is being exacerbated by dramatic declines in enrollments in university computer science programs, along with the first trickle of baby boomers starting to head for the exits, specific skills shortages are weighing heavily on CIOs' minds. "If you're looking at emerging technologies such as Adobe Flex, there are some boutique firms that have resources, but to get those skills in-house, it's a much smaller pool," says Frank Hood, CIO at The Quiznos Master LLC in Denver.

Here are the top 8 skills in demand for 2008, as identified by Computerworld's first-half 2008 Vital Signs survey.

1. Programming/application development. As companies continue to Web-enable their existing applications and plow deeper into Web 2.0, demand is red-hot right now for people with AJAX, .Net and PHP skills, says Katherine Spencer Lee, executive director at Robert Half Technology in Menlo Park, Calif.

Plus, as a growing number of organizations begin adopting Microsoft Corp.'s Silverlight 1.0 rich-media software tools, expect to see rising demand for people expertise in that area, says Spencer Lee (also see 12 IT skills that employers can't say no to. And, for a different take, don't miss Top 10 dead [or dying] computer skills).

2. Project management. CIOs are hungry for project managers who have extensive experience overseeing complex efforts that have delivered clear business benefits -- not just someone who has obtained a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from Project Management Institute Inc., says David Van De Voort, principal consultant at Mercer International Inc. in Chicago.

Many organizations, such as Sabre Holdings, are applying agile development test-driven development techniques. Finding people with finely-honed skills in these areas "is extremely important," says Sara Garrison, senior vice president of product and solutions development at the Southlake, Texas-based air travel data company.

Also, expect to see heightened demand for quality assurance specialists to help test and check new systems that are being rolled out, says Dan Reynolds, CEO of Princeton, N.J.-based staffing firm The Brokers Group LLC.

3. Help desk/technical support. Do the math. As companies continue to expand their application portfolios, more help desk and technical support experts will be needed to support those systems. And much of that expertise will need to be on-premises, with only a fraction of the work being shifted to overseas call centers in places like Bangalore, India.

Demand for support staff will remain strong as commercial applications from vendors such as IBM and Microsoft continue to become more complex, notes CompTIA's Hopkins. "You'll need higher-skilled workers not only to implement but [also] to manage these systems," he says.

And as operations for multinational organizations become increasingly globalized, demand for multilingual help desk staffers will also rise, says Spencer Lee.

4. Security. There will always be demand for IT professionals with core security credentials, such as intrusion-detection capabilities and government security clearances, but database and wireless security projects will drive that demand even higher this year.

Thanks to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, "there has to be a way to control security on databases and networks to a level that we've never had to lock it down before," says Joel Reiter, an application analyst at U.S. Bancorp in St. Paul, Minn.

5. Data centers. There has been a flurry of activity among companies and government agencies to upgrade or relocate their data centers to take advantage of virtualization and other recent data automation and efficiency gains. The data center gold rush is also being fueled by expanding data management and storage requirements being imposed by regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

And as organizations place greater reliance on open systems to run mission-critical applications, many companies are recruiting experienced mainframe technicians to apply the same type of "industrial-strength computing" disciplines they've acquired to distributed systems, says CompTIA's Hopkins.

Meanwhile, demand for database management experts is growing "simply because organizations are putting a heck of a lot more of their business [data] on these very large databases," says Hopkins.

6. Business knowledge. As IT organizations strive to align more closely with the businesses they support, demand remains strong for people with business acumen, whether they're specialized business analysts, business liaisons or application developers and other technicians with business-specific knowledge.

"It's not impossible for us to find a technical person, but it is more difficult to find someone who can be a jack of all trades [across technical skills] with the business acumen to be a combination business analyst/systems analyst," says Quiznos' Hood. "It's hard to find that total package of skill sets."

That's also helping to drive demand for technologists who can serve as IT/business "translators," says Robert Rosen, immediate past president of Share, an IBM user group, and CIO of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases in Bethesda, Md.

7 & 8. Networking and telecommunications. All sorts of networking skills are hot right now, including general network administration capabilities and network convergence, wireless and network security talents, as organizations collapse their voice and data networks with wireless and voice-over-IP technologies, says Mercer's Van De Voort.

"There's a great opportunity for people in the infrastructure space as well, including messaging administrators and network/systems administrators who act as the air-traffic controllers for e-mail, corporate networks and PDAs," says Robert Half Technology's Spencer Lee. There's also huge demand for people with wireless know-how, particularly those with security skills, as a growing number of organizations try to build secure mobile applications, says Sabre's Garrison.

"The Achilles' heel in the networking world is how to handle security in a networked environment," says Garrison.

The 5 Phases of IT Projects

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According to Google, "IT and Software" projects are now the most common type of project undertaken within the field of Project Management. So what are the phases in a project life cycle, that involves IT and Software? We've set them out for you below...

Tip 1: Analysis

The first step for an IT project involves analyzing your requirements for a solution. To do this, you need to analyze your business environment, processes, systems, people and organizational structure, to help you set out exactly what it is that the new IT solution must deliver. Typically, companies write a "Requirements Specification" which sets out their business requirements formally, so that at the end of the project, they have a formal stake in the ground, against which the solution can be measured.

Tip 2: Design

When you know what it is that you want, the next step is to design a solution for meeting those needs. In the design phase, you will design all of the components of the solution, including the; hardware, software, user interface, security and integration with other systems. The Project Manager will often get a "prototype" built, so that the customer can see roughly what the solution will look and feel like, before the development phase begins.

Tip 3: Develop

The longest and most time consuming phase is always the development of the system. This involves writing software code, constructing hardware, building the database, writing the user interface and fitting together each of the components into a complete solution for the customer. It's during this phase that most delays are experienced, and they are typically due to insufficient analysis and design being completed.

Tip 4: Test

When the solution has been built, it's time to test that it performs as expected. A smart tester will have already agreed with the customer what it is that should be tested and what the outcome should be. If this is done, then testing is more of a formality and there should be "no surprises" during the testing process. There are various types of testing, including system / load / performance / security / user interface testing.

Tip 5: Implement

After comprehensive testing, you're ready to "Go Live". You do this by installing the hardware at the customers site, installing the sotware, and migrating the data over from the existing system to the new system. Some final "checks and balances" are performed to ensure that the data is accurate and the system is performing as expected, and then you're finished.